“Ice Cream” for Dinner?

Spring, it changes things, doesn’t it? I feel like I want to do more of everything - cooking, singing, cleaning! The light messes me up too…oh, dinner is hours away, it is still so light out! But nooooo, it is 4:15 and it looks like it is the middle of the day! I did have dinner planned, beef/sausage balls with a thousand island-like dip made from sour cream, mayo and ketchup along with a raw carrot salad loaded with raisins and pine nuts – yum! But my kitchen is a mess, I am a little tired of being the kitchen and it is getting late. I had a fleeting thought, “movie night with ice cream and popcorn for dinner?” NO…I can’t do that! But wait, it would be “ice cream” and good popcorn! Luckily, the decision was made for me. I went to get my beef and sausage from the fridge and it was still pretty frozen, so that sealed the deal…ice cream and popcorn it is. Now, for those of you who know me well, it is not any ordinary ice cream.

Dinner Ice Cream

1 cup kefir cheese (cream cheese leftover from draining the whey from probiotic-superstar kefir)

3 egg yolks from my stellar backyard brood

1/4 cup (or there abouts) caspian sea yogurt (just because it was there and needed to be used)

1/2 cup raw cream

2 Tbs coconut oil

2 Tbs vanilla

1 heaping teaspoon spirulina (green superfood, masked by the cocoa color)

chocolate sauce mixture: 1/4 cup maple syrup, 1/4 brown rice syrup, 1/4 cup raw cocoa (warmed in pot to just melt)

Blend then toss into ice cream maker = dinner ice cream! Totally yummy to the tummy!

For dinner popcorn, I popped kernels in a coconut oil and coconut ghee (mixture of coconut oil and ghee from Green Pastures) mix, topped with tons of organic butter, celtic sea salt, and a Tbs of nutritional yeast – done. (OH – and Tyler snuck in a few quesadilla's for him and me, so I suppose that is a little more dinner-like.)

Well, according to my standards, the nutritional profile doesn’t look all that bad actually:

raw foods 

nourishing raw fats  

protein

something green

something fermented

sea salt

superfoods

Everyone enjoyed the treats…I mean dinner….over Toy Story 2. Awwwww Spring!

Snow Ice Cream and Snow Day update

I would say, Raw Snow Ice Cream is now one of our favorite desserts! So easy and delicious!

Raw Snow Ice Cream

4 Tbsp Rapadura sugar (or other unrefined dry variety)

1/2 cup raw cream

2 egg yolks (from pastured chicks)

1 to 2 tsp vanilla

pinch sea salt

Using an electric mixer, combine all the above ingredients until the mixture begins to thicken. Then add 4 to 5 cups lightly packed Spring-time snow (which has a little higher water content than winter) and mix until blended to your desired consistency. I would think this recipe is best consumed in Spring, instead of in the dead of winter anyway. Regardless, make the needed adjustments on the snow, we started out with 3 cups but ended up adding more to thicken it up a bit and reduce the sweetness. It was eaten quickly, not only because it needed to be, but because it was yummy to our tummies!

  

Snow update: here are some pictures taken around 3:30. The snow continues to fall steadily, we have around 18 or 19 inches as of right now, totally awesome! We love being snowed in!

 

 

 

 

Glass popsicle molds

While this little invention may be uninteresting to many, my plastic-avoiding friends may get a kick out of it. A friend Moneca asked me if I had ever seen glass or stainless steel popsicle molds. I have not, but my wheels started turning. I noticed my small glass jelly jars are a good popsicle size and asked my industrious husband if there was a way to make a slit in the metal lids for a popsicle stick. And, of course, my most-excellent husband found a way! So now I have glass popscile molds to put my fudge-sicles in, yummy!

This particular "recipe" was inspired by Moneca, although it always turns out different since I don't really use exact measurements, I just taste as I go:

1 big scoop of raw honey (local is best) - maybe 3 Tbs

large pour of cocoa powder - maybe 1/4 cup or more

2 egg yolks (from my backyard flock of course)

1 pour of dairy kefir - 1/4 - 1/2 cup

small handful of cacoa nibs

1/2 to 3/4 cup raw cream

There is really no wrong way to make these. Try blending in a bag of frozen raspberries too!