Raspberry ice cream

Today for breakfast i decided to have raspberry ice cream (although it's cold and not sunny outside xD). Because i have frozen bananas i went for the easy, healthy version =p I also added some leftover vegan yoghurt i had =p I let the frozen fruit rest a bit in the food processor before i started it so it wouldn't be too heavy for the food processor to chop the frozen fruits =)

Ingredients:
Frozen banana
Frozen raspberries
Vegan yoghurt (optional)

Put ingredients in food processor and blend =p Enjoy =D Very delicious, healthy, easy and fast =p Can also be made with different berries =p

New icecream maker =D

Seems I'm not the pro, much updating blogger xD

I'm now done with my master thesis, finally =D but i don't really know what kinda job i want. Seems there's not so many jobs where you need a master in renewable energy...

Some weeks ago i bought myself an ice cream maker in a Norwegian shop called Europris =D It was on sale so i got it for 100 Kr instead of 300 Kr =D

With this ice cream maker you must freeze the bowl for minimum 12 hours, then you pour your cooled ice cream mix into the bowl while the rotating blade is spinning and wait for it to become ice cream =) It should take about 30 minutes before it's slushy consistency. If you want the ice cream more frozen you can put the bowl back into the freezer for an hour or so.

Of course i had to test it out by making various ice creams =D

Pistachio ice cream

Strawberry ice cream

Chocolate ice cream

I'm very satisfied with this ice cream maker, I'm happy i bought it =D Now i can make any ice cream that i want =D

For more inspiration and recipes check out veganeren and vegetarbloggen, or google =p

Anyone got suggestions for more ice creams to test out? =p Or any favorites? From these three i prefered the pistachio and chocolate one =p

Mothersday

Yesterday (9th February) was mothers day in Norway, so i decided to do something nice for my mother =p

When me and my sis and bro were kids we used to give breakfast on bed for this occasion (if i remember correctly xD). Last years though she normally wakes up before us so then it's a bit harder xD

This year i wanted to surprise her with breakfast though so i putted my alarm at 7:30 (but i woke up before 7 xD) and made pancakes (with this recipe from vegetarbloggen *norwegian*). That's my favorite pancake recipe. I replaced half of the flour with whole wheat flour, and i used only half of the sugar, so it would be a bit healthier =p

I figured it would be a bit awkward though if i went into her room with food while she was sleeping, so i cleaned the kitchen a bit instead and made it a bit cozy. Then when she and my dad came, we enjoyed pancakes for breakfast ^.^ (my sister and brother were sleeping so i didn't make for them xD). I forgot to take pictures of the pancakes, but they looked more or less like pancakes xD

Then later i made pineapple upside down cake (recipe from veganeren *norwegian*) and peanut butter cookies with chocolate pieces (recipe also from veganeren *norwegian* who got her recipe from theveganzombie here *english*).

I also had a blueberry banana ice cake in the freezer (basically frozen bananas blended to cream, then frozen blueberries added, followed by some soaked almonds and dates and a bit of vanilla sugar, blended good, put in cake shape and stored in freezer).

Everyones favorite was the pineapple upside down cake. It was really fresh and tasty and so easy to make! I will definitely make it again! :D

The peanut butter cookies with chocolate pieces were also pretty good :p they kinda tasted just like they sound like xD So if you like peanut butter and cookies you will like these cookies :D

The blueberry banana ice cake was nice as well xD This one is more healthy and could probably have a bit better taste xD Actually it is so healthy that you can eat it for breakfast every day without feeling guilty xD It is practically a frozen smoothie, and it can be made with infinite varieties and can be made raw xD

We kids also gave my mom an orchid flower since she likes them :D

So i hope it was a nice day for her =)

Kiwi icecream

The good thing about buying many of foods that are on sale is that i can experiment with new things to do with them. I dont want half of the food to turn rotten and end up in the trash, so instead when it turns very ripe, im like "oh shit, what am i gonna use it for?!?!!" followed by some hunting on the internet or in my cookbooks for recipes xD This way i ended up with making the broccoli-carrot-potato burgers, the pear cake, the kiwi cake, and the kiwi icecream =p

Here comes kiwi icecream!

Ingredients:
1-2 frozen ripe bananas
1-2 ripe kiwis

Mix in food processor until nice consistency and enjoy hehehe

Vanilla ice cream

Today i wanted to make vanilla ice cream again, since it was nice weather and sunny outside like if it is summer (i think its illogical to stay inside and cook for a whole day while its nice weather outside, but i got this urge today anyway xD) I heard it got nicer consistency if you mix it every 20 minutes or so, so i tried to do that. Still ended up a bit icy, but not too bad ^.^

So i used the recipe i found here for it =p All credits for the recipe goes to the author of the recipe like normal xD I copy - paste the recipe ^.^ The comments in the recipe is from the author btw, not from me xD I'll start doing my comments in cursive so its easier to separate xD


Vanilla Ice Cream!...no, really!

Ingredients

    3/4 cup nondairy milk (I use plain soy)
    1/4 cup salad oil (refined vegetable oil)
    4 tablespoons fructose (you can tell me if it works with other sugars too, haven't tried)
    8 drops vanilla extract

Directions:

1. Put milk and vegetable oil in a blender.  Blend for 1 minute.

2. Put fructose into blender, and blend for 1 minute.

3. Pour into a container.  Add vanilla on top, and stir.  It should taste like melted ice cream at this point!

4. Put in freezer until desired consistency is reached.

When it's ready, the only difference is that there might be some ice shavings in the bottom, similar to what happens to ice cream when it unfreezes and freezes again.  You can try mashing it and re-freezing it.  But it tastes like regular vanilla ice cream to me, which means you can make recipes with it in place of ice cream.

Serves: 2, Preparation time: 10 minutes to make, a night to freeze

Can add other tastes in it as well, like banana, chocolate, strawberry, or anything you want ;)

Banana ice cream

I don't know where i found the recipe for this, but its extremely easy to make banana ice cream! xD

The only ingredient you need is a frozen ripe banana! xD (also some liquid is handy, for example soymilk or water)

So put the frozen banana in a blender/food processor (you can mix with other stuff too, like chocolate or nuts or whatever you want, add liquid also so it gets creamy) and mix till its creamy (my banana normally gets stuck to the edges if i dont use liquid, so i just end it there and let it melt a bit more  or use liquid, before i eat it full of chocolate sauce and caramel sauce xD njam! =p)
 

So if you got some ripe bananas, the freezer is the place they should be! =p or in one of the other cakes/cupcakes/breads/cookies! xD


Edit: I recently started adding liquid to the bananas in the food processor so it would rotate better and not just get stuck on the edges, and the consistency gets really great then! It's just perfect! =D I tested with soymilk and water, both works ^.^ Here's pic of ice cream like it's supposed to be! xD

 

I also once added soymilk and stawberry jam and got a creamy sauce-thingy tasting like strawberry cream or something xD Could be handy in case someone needs strawberry cream =p