Showing posts with label banana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banana. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2011

3 ingredient "Ice cream"

I made a special treat last night. I remembered someone commenting a long time ago about making "ice cream" without milk, but couldn't find the link. With some searching I found this very sweet, creamy delicious treat.

You need three ingredients and a food processor. The food processor is necessary, unless you have one of those ninja / vitamix buggers, a regular blender just won't do unfortunately.

Frozen Bananas (yes, must be frozen), peanut butter (of sunbutter/almond butter etc) and unsweetened cocoa powder (I used nestle, feel free to use your favorite premium)

I used:
2 FROZEN bananas
2 Tablespoons peanut butter (I eat a LOT of peanut butter, more than my 2 year old)
0.5 Tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder

Chop the banana into 8 pieces or so, add peanut butter and cocoa and pulse or use LOW in the food processor. Stop when all ingredients are appropriately mixed. From start to finish, it all takes about 3 minutes and the final product is amazing!

We ate this as soon as it was finished, I didn't feel a need to put it back in the freezer.

No added milk (great for vegans!), can increase or decrease amount of peanut butter (OK, ok, I admit, I added 2.5 Tablespoons, get off my back!) or use sunbutter if you have nut allergies.

No added sugars, and no added ~stuff~ 3 ingredients. WIN!

Do you think a banana tree will grow on my porch in North Carolina?

I cannot wait to make this again, and add more cocoa, maybe 1 Tablespoon for a more chocolate taste (the peanut butter, was eh hem, overwhelming lol).

This made enough for two adults to share, but I'll not lie, this could have easily been consumed mightily by myself. Mua ha ha!

Monday, September 12, 2011

A lot of growth in a little time

Hubbers and I agree, Loki has grown a lot in just a week.  All of a sudden he is sitting up and even beginning to spin around while on his belly.  This week also marks his first cluster feeding (Jeanne had many, and often).  Loki is alert and happy nearly all the time, and loves, loves to eat food.  I think his favorite so far are carrots.

 Jeanne is also growing quickly.  She has a sense of humor now, and has started bargaining for things she wants.  For example, today I told her it is was time for 'milk and books' (aka nap time), she turned around and said " Dance 1 song (while pointing 1 finger at me), then milk soon".  Hard to argue with that, so dance we did.

Jeanne is still helping me bake, and this morning we made these Banana, peanut butter, oatmeal muffins.  Whoa boy were they good.  These are a keeper. I'll freeze half this batch and dole them out as yummy snacks when all else fails (kind of like my smoothie pops made with yogurt, peanut butter and fruit).  We ate ours plain, warm out of the oven, but I suppose you could put butter on them.

This week is the last week.  Either we sell the house, or we don't and we're done with it.  We just can not maintain this level of borrowing and stress.  It is beginning to have clear effects on my health.  I will let you know one way or another, what happens with the house.