Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Home Made Ice Cream

Strawberry and Mango Ice Cream! Can you say YUM? XD

I love making my own ice cream - partly because I can put in whatever I like in 'em, partly because I know it's not laden with sugar :D

Its much easier than you think. I know you might be familiar with recipes that requires egg yolks and ice cream making machines....(ice cream makers??) but my recipe needs none of those! I'm not too keen on the idea of having raw egg yolk in my ice cream myself... However, this recipe is reaaaallly easy and needs only 2 main ingredients:

Milk & Powdered Creamer (coffeemate?)

How to:
Just beat milk and creamer together - adjust the proportions by slowly adding in the creamer till the mixture is thick and creamy in consistency (like melted ice cream). Add in your flavorings - depending on what you feel like. Freeze for about an hour (or till the cream touching the sides of the container has frozen) then take it out and beat the mixture again. Repeat the freezing and beating step several times (I usually do it about 3 times) till you find that ice crystals don't form in your cream anymore, and you get more of an ice cream texture.

Poke it a couple of times in the freezer, if it feels like ice cream, you can stop beating it.

These are some of my favorite ice cream combinations:

Rum, Raisin and Coffee
- no doubt, gets the highest requests from my family members. Just add in rum, raisins and some coffee powder in your milky mixture.

Fruits (anything with less fiber - mangoes, berries...)
- use a blender instead of a beater to make your ice cream mixture, and add in your fruits. It blends in your fruits well with your cream.

Good ol' chocolate
- add in a couple of tablespoons of cocoa, and some chocolate chips if you desire. Some nuts would go great too!

Oreos
- Don't add in your oreo bits till the last ice cream beating, or everything will end up soggy and you'll get gross grey ice cream. Stir in oreo bits to create nice oreo swirls.


Easy and Healthy....err.. healthierrr.. ;D

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Watermelon Jelly


Still on the subject of trying to be healthy....

Jelly, shaped like watermelon - made from watermelon.




The watermelon 'skin' and watermelon 'flesh' made from different types of jelly....


Skin is made from Agar agar (which means jelly) powder while the flesh is made from Konyaku powder, a type Japanese jelly with a chewy, bouncy texture. 



A little pandan essence in the green jelly, watermelon juice for the watermelon jelly and some biji selasih (basil seeds) for seeds. Simply delicious on a hot day...

How to make it...? Well, thats coming up on my next post... :D

I submitted this post to EKat's Kitchen for a Friday's Potluck, as well as to Miz Helen's Full Plate Thursday! It's so cute.. everyone brings a kind of food (virtually) and we get to share every one's pretty creations! Click the button below to link to EKat's Kitchen's blog, and Miz Helen's linky above :D



Sunday, January 9, 2011

Ridiculously Easy! Insanely Delicious!

Baking itch.. baking itch... baking itch...
        Arghhh!! NO! NO! NO!
        On a diet... on a diet... On A DIET~!!!

DOMO! : How the heck do you run a baking blog when you're on a friggin' diet?!
Me :  :(
20 minutes later.....

Guess what this is. Ice-creaaaa....? Nope, it isn't ice cream.


It's my Frozen Banana Cream Cup!


Frozen Banana Cream Cup!








Fooled you didn't I?

It's healthy, Ohmygod! delicious and impossibly easy to make. Most importantly, eat it guilt FREE! (ok maybe 3% guilt because of the whipped cream... ) It tastes like thick, rich banana ice cream....



Heres how you do it:
  • Take 3 ripe, frozen bananas (Cavendish Bananas taste creamier - I love DOLE, but any other brands would do fine)
  • One spoonful of honey
  • Two table spoons of milk

Blend them all in a food processor, and serve with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles :)

Dole bananas are slightly richer and creamier in taste. For the perfect ice cream texture :D

Enjoy your breakfast-dessert! 

And if you want it a little less creamy, and a little more smoothie - add more milk! You'll get a delicious smooth banana shake! Which makes this post now, perfect for this submission: