Unbelievable Ice Cream

Bananas. That's it. Nothing else.
And this is what you do. Take a banana or three and slice it into 1 inch slices. Freeze the pieces on a cookie sheet. Put the frozen pieces into your blender that is powerful enough to blend frozen fruit. Blend.




The bananas blend into a soft-serve, lightly banana-y flavored ice cream. It is truly unbelievable. Apparently if you can't eat all of your ice cream, you can refreeze it and eat it later. We ate all ours so I can't say how well that would work.
My next try I will add mint flavor and then stir in chocolate chips. Mint chocolate chip ice cream made with just frozen bananas. Mmmmmmm!




If you try adding other flavours that work really well, let me know.

ETA: I made this again and used bananas that were riper than before. I sliced my bananas a little thinner (1/4inch) and let the pieces defrost about 2 minutes before blending them. I added fresh mint leaves while the bananas were being blended and then stirred in chocolate chips. It was a delicious chocolate chip mint icecream!

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Fresh cucumbers, beans, corn and tomatoes! Yum!

I love this time of year when the fresh produce is at its peak. This is the best time to be vegan because the options are limitless and eating local is so simple. My lovely cousin, grand-cousin and I spent the morning at the farmer's market and the summer bounty is all there. The only thing missing is apples but I imagine they will be arriving shortly. I left with two bags filled with cherries, blackberries, peaches, nectarines, tomatoes, and corn.

Yesterday my dear friend Linda gave me a bag of veggies from her garden so I added what I bought at the market to my fridge already filled with cucumbers, beets, and beans. Linda also gave me chard but that went into hottie black eyed peas and greens yesterday.

It's too hot to cook inside and too hot to eat hot food so I put the induction heater outside and cooked the corn then blanched the beans. I have lots of corn for us to eat tonight for dinner and I used some for the corn and green bean salad. I then made cucumber soup in the blender. So easy and yummy.

Corn and Green Bean Salad

1 cup fresh cooked corn kernels (or frozen if you must)
2 cups green beans, trimmed and halved
3 small ripe tomatoes, chopped
1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds
2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
Juice of 1 lemon
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp dried marjoram
1/2 tsp sea salt
Cracked black pepper

Blanch the beans in boiling water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes and then drain and cool quickly under cold water. Mix all the ingredients together. Refrigerate to let the favors mix and then bring to room temperature before eating. Easy!

Cold Cucumber Soup

This gets no easier and it is delicious!

1 lb cucumber, cut into chunks (no need to peel unless the peel is really tough or bitter)
1/4 cup fresh lime juice (about 2 limes)
1 cup cold water
1 tsp veggie stock powder (I use the Gayelord Hauser's brand)
1 tsp sea salt
Cracked black pepper

Put all the ingredients into a blender and purée until smooth. Chill and serve. I will serve it over chunks of tomato. You could also serve it over chunks of avocado if you wanted more unctuousness!

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