freemotion
Food Guru
What to do when life sends you icicles....as was discussed here a few days ago, make ice cream! Was that you, Pat? 
My chickens cooperated and laid a buncha eggs, and dh cooperated and didn't devour them. Here is what we had last night:
Gourmet Mint Double Chocolate Ice Cream (Goat's Milk)
In the fall, breed some goats so you will have milk the following winter, at the same time you have icicles. Milk them twice daily with the same aim in view.
In mid-summer, pick all the peppermint leaves that you can pack tightly into a quart canning jar. Pack 'em in. Pour vodka to fill in the spaces and slightly cover the leaves. Add a couple of smooth, scrubbed rocks to keep the leaves under the vodka. Put this in a dark cupboard and forget you did it.
Find some 72% dark chocolate Godiva bars at a discount store (Lindt will do, as will Green & Black's) and purchase 3. Eat one and save two for the ice cream. Stick them in the freezer.
Shake a frying pan at your lazy, mid-winter hens and say it's you or some eggs, gals, your choice. Then give them some meat scraps and fill up the oyster shell bin.
Shake the same...or a bigger....cast iron frying pan at your family members and make it clear that no one is to eat any resulting eggs until you say so. Oatmeal for breakfast and no whining about it.
When there are enough eggs (FINALLY!
) gather the icicles, put them in an old feed sack, and beat them with all your winter frustrations. Use a sledge hammer if needed.
For a six quart ice cream maker, put 18 egg yolks, three pinches of sea salt, 8 Tblsp arrowroot powder, 9 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa, 8 Tbsp peppermint extract, and a bit of milk if needed. Blend the &%&^ out of it and pour it into the container. Add about 3 liters of fresh goat's milk, rinsing the last of the goodness from the blender with it. Blend about 3/4 cup sugar and 9 squirts of pure stevia with the last of the milk and add to the container. Taste the mixture and adjust if needed.
Set up the ice cream maker and turn in on. When the motor stops, pulverize the two Godiva dark chocolate bars while still in their packages, carefully, and add to the completed mix. Lick the paddle thoroughly. Use your dairy skimmer to mix in the chocolate bits, as it holds a lot of ice cream in the holes and you will have even more to lick.
Set the container of chocolatey wonderfulness in a secure snowbank to harden up a bit. Enjoy!
My chickens cooperated and laid a buncha eggs, and dh cooperated and didn't devour them. Here is what we had last night:Gourmet Mint Double Chocolate Ice Cream (Goat's Milk)
In the fall, breed some goats so you will have milk the following winter, at the same time you have icicles. Milk them twice daily with the same aim in view.
In mid-summer, pick all the peppermint leaves that you can pack tightly into a quart canning jar. Pack 'em in. Pour vodka to fill in the spaces and slightly cover the leaves. Add a couple of smooth, scrubbed rocks to keep the leaves under the vodka. Put this in a dark cupboard and forget you did it.
Find some 72% dark chocolate Godiva bars at a discount store (Lindt will do, as will Green & Black's) and purchase 3. Eat one and save two for the ice cream. Stick them in the freezer.
Shake a frying pan at your lazy, mid-winter hens and say it's you or some eggs, gals, your choice. Then give them some meat scraps and fill up the oyster shell bin.
Shake the same...or a bigger....cast iron frying pan at your family members and make it clear that no one is to eat any resulting eggs until you say so. Oatmeal for breakfast and no whining about it.
When there are enough eggs (FINALLY!
) gather the icicles, put them in an old feed sack, and beat them with all your winter frustrations. Use a sledge hammer if needed.For a six quart ice cream maker, put 18 egg yolks, three pinches of sea salt, 8 Tblsp arrowroot powder, 9 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa, 8 Tbsp peppermint extract, and a bit of milk if needed. Blend the &%&^ out of it and pour it into the container. Add about 3 liters of fresh goat's milk, rinsing the last of the goodness from the blender with it. Blend about 3/4 cup sugar and 9 squirts of pure stevia with the last of the milk and add to the container. Taste the mixture and adjust if needed.
Set up the ice cream maker and turn in on. When the motor stops, pulverize the two Godiva dark chocolate bars while still in their packages, carefully, and add to the completed mix. Lick the paddle thoroughly. Use your dairy skimmer to mix in the chocolate bits, as it holds a lot of ice cream in the holes and you will have even more to lick.
Set the container of chocolatey wonderfulness in a secure snowbank to harden up a bit. Enjoy!
Adding dairy free dark chocolate bars to WF shopping list for this weekend. We'll have to compromise on the mint extract till summer though.
