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Banana Ice Cream

Posted in Desserts, Entertaining at Home, Puddings and Custards, Recipes, tagged , , , on April 13, 2012| 2 Comments »

When I was a kid, on random and rare occasions my sister-in-law Debbie would treat us to homemade banana ice cream. It was smooth, creamy bliss in a bowl on a hot summer day.  A bit of a banana fan, I absolutely loved this ice cream and eagerly looked forward to the times she made it. (Which wasn’t nearly often enough).

My mom tried to make it a few times, but it never tasted the same because she refused to use the raw eggs required by the recipe. So if you don’t consume raw eggs, please skip today’s post and come back next week when I don’t have to issue any food warnings.

Consider this your warning – consuming raw eggs may increase your chance of food borne illness. Use fresh eggs that aren’t cracked, please, if you plan to make this ice cream.

Which, if you like ice cream and like bananas, you will want to do as quickly as possible.

It has been years (decades) since I’ve had this ice cream and it was just as yummy as I remember. I finally begged Debbie to share her recipe and I am forever grateful that she did.

Captain Cavedweller had never enjoyed the experience of banana ice cream before and I thought I was going to have to find a stick to beat him off  just so I could get a bowl of it.

Yeah, it was that good.

It is really easy to make and this recipe will fill a four-quart ice cream freezer easily. If you have one of the one and a half quart freezers, I’d cut this down to a one-third recipe.

Enjoy!

Ingredients

Beat eggs until foamy.

Add sugar and beat until dissolved.

Add cream, salt, flavorings and milk to get this foamy, beautiful bowl of goodness.

Mash bananas and add to mix.

Pour into your ice cream freezer and freeze according to machine directions.

A whimsically fun bowl may slightly enhance the flavor, unless you are Captain Cavedweller.

Serve with a garnish of banana slices dipped in chocolate and mint, if you so desire. CC desired a shortbread cookie with his.

Banana Ice Cream

5 eggs
2 1/2 cups sugar
4cups whipping cream
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. banana flavoring
4 cups milk
4 ripe bananas, mashed
* Warning! Consuming raw eggs may increase your risk of food borne illness.   If you do decide to make this and use the raw eggs, please choose eggs that are fresh with no cracks in the shell.
Start by beating the eggs until they are foamy and light. I let mine go about six minutes. Add in sugar and continue mixing. Slow the speed on the mixer and add in the cream followed by the salt, vanilla and banana flavoring. Continue mixing and add in the milk, blending in the bananas last. Pour into your ice cream freezer and freeze according to machine directions.

Serve and enjoy! I dipped a few banana slices in chocolate and added a garnish of mint, just for fun. Captain Cavedweller preferred his plain, of course.

She Who LOVES Banana Ice Cream

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Easter Bunny Salad

Posted in Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, Quick and Easy, Recipes, Salads, tagged , , , , on April 6, 2012| 1 Comment »

When I was a young girl, my mom had a circa 1960-something Betty Crocker cook-book for kids that originally belonged to my sister. I glommed onto it once I decided I wanted to bake and create in the kitchen. This was one of the first things I made. Mom also made these pear bunnies for us sometimes and they never failed to make me smile.

Easy and simple, make pear bunnies for Easter and see if your kids aren’t begging for more.

Ingredients - leaf lettuce, a can of pear halves (or fresh pears, cut in half) cottage cheese, cranberries, sliced almonds and Red Hots. You are supposed to use raisins instead of cranberries, but since I hate raisins, my bunnies have bizarre red eyes.

 

Put leaf lettuce on a plate. You can use as many as you like.

 

Place pear half on lettuce, split side down.

 

Add a dollop of cottage cheese at the broad end of the pear for a tail.

 

Stick in sliced almonds for ears, cranberries for eyes and a Red Hot nose.

 

Enjoy!

 

She Who Wishes You all a Very Happy Easter!

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Easter Bunny Bread

Posted in Appetizers, bread, Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, Recipes, tagged , , , on April 5, 2012| 1 Comment »

Here’s a fast and fun recipe you can make using bread dough from a tube. Youngsters, and the young at heart, will really enjoy these!

Ingredients - bread dough, an egg and salt. If you have refrigerated breadsticks in a tube they would be perfect. I used a tube of dough I had on hand. If you want to be miss Betty-homemaker, you could also use made-from-scratch bread dough. I was not feeling the Betty-ness.

 

If you are using a piece of bread dough, roll into a log (or take out of tube) and cut into slices about 1-1/2 inches thick.

 

Roll slices into about a 12-inch long piece.

 

Fold in half, this forms the bottom of the bunny.

 

Lap the ends over each other once...

 

Then twice to form the body and ears.

 

Reserve a few pieces of dough to make the tail. Just pinch off a little ball and place it in the space created by the twists.

 

Separate the egg white from the yolk. Lightly beat egg white and then brush onto bread before putting into oven. Bake the bread according at 350 degrees until lightly browned.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

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Fruity Pebble Eggs

Posted in Cookies, Desserts, Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Recipes, tagged , , , , , on April 4, 2012| 1 Comment »

 

I stole this idea from pin on Pinterest that used Rice Krispies. This was a fun and flavorful alternative. Enjoy!

Ingredients

Melt marshmallows with oil or butter, like you would for Rice Krispie Treats.

 

Stir in cereal until well-coated.

Grease your hands and shape cereal mixture into egg-shaped treats.

 

Then if you want to get all fancy-pants, you can add frosting stripes, sprinkles and fun accents.

 

She Who Really Likes Fruity Pebbles

 

 

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