Neapolitan Ice-cream

Who remembers those big tubs of ice-cream that had a mixture of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla flavours in them? I assume they are still available. We always had them in our house when I was growing up. My favourite flavour was chocolate, and my brothers was strawberry. Although, occasionally we would have a scoop of all 3 flavours and mix it together to make a big swirl of flavoured ice-cream in our bowl!

Here's a way to combine chocolate, strawberry and vanilla flavours into a healthy ice-cream swirl:

 NEAPOLITAN ICE-CREAM 

You'll need (per serving):

1 cup frozen strawberries, chopped into pieces prior to freezing

1 medjool date, pitted

1 Tablespoon cocoa powder

1 teaspoon vanilla essense

1-2 Tablespoons motherless milk of choice 

Combine all ingredients in a mini food processor or blender and blend until smooth.
The amount of milk will vary depending on your blender, and how smooth you want it.

Deliciousness! 

This one was made with more milk and more cocoa.

Question of the day?
Did you have Neapolitan Ice-cream as a child? If so, what was your favourite flavour?

Unprocessed - End of Week 2

Wednesday - 

Breakfast was soaked oats with a grated apple and raisins

 

Lunch was leftover cauliflower fried-rice with a sweet potato pattie & rockmelon

For dinner I enjoyed yet another Wednesday outing :-) ~Lucky me~
This evening I went to a Japanese restaurant and enjoyed a vegetarian bento box

IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was my most enjoyable meal out in a long time! Everything was so deliciously tasty & it's nice to get a big meal.... and yet sooo affordable! Can you believe this whole platter was less than $20! :D

Thursday -

Breakfast was soaked oats with ground flax seeds, mashed pumpkin and raisins. 

I forgot to take a picture of lunch :-( I was out enjoying the beautiful sunshine with my packed salad with yet another leftover sweet potato pattie :-)


 
For dinner I sorted through out vegetable drawer in the fridge and pulled out everything that was green and threw together a simple stir-fry, served over brown rice.

Yes, I did have dessert ;-)
Will you be at all surprised if I mention it was banana soft-serve???

Sorry - awful picture.... Taken on my phone!

Friday - 

I woke up early this morning!!! I'm sure normal people do the washing or exercise when they wake up early..... but not me... I made cookies!!!!

I mashed 2 over-ripe bananas, added a cup of oats, a cup of chopped dried apple and a tablespoon of almond butter. Added enough oat bran to hold them together and baked at 180C for 17 minutes......

 

So I guess I should of really baked them for 12 instead :-/ 
Despite being ~slightly~ overcooked they were AmAzInGlY delicious :D
Very pleased with my morning creation.... and as such I spent most of the morning nibbling on quite a few of them :-/
I did have guests so I can honestly say that I didn't eat them all myself!!!!!

I did have breakfast before I had the grand test-taste tho ;-)
Breakfast was brown rice with raisins and cinnamon and an orange.
I have definitely been enjoying raisins this week! They are just so tasty and sweet!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After all my morning snacking I didn't really feel like lunch! Surprise, surprise....
So at about 2 o'clock I made myself a 'chocolate' green smoothie. Sooooooooooo tasty.....
 

 

For dinner I decided to make some tofu.
I sliced the tofu and fried it in a mixture of soysauce, maple syrup, rice wine vinegar and a touch of molasses.








I then added a tablespoon of natural peanut butter to the mixture. Using the moisture that was already there to make it 'saucy'.

It was sooooooooo delicious!
I was so pleased that something I could prepare so quickly and easily was so delicious. I will definitely make this again.


Served over mashed potato with steamed veggies.

 

Week 2 Unprocessed - Monday

I am finding that my meals are quite basic. Its lovely to start to feel like meals are easy and not difficult to prepare! I'm yet to tackle anything major like home-made pasta or bread! Give me time though! I'm still dealing with the back-to-school rush at the moment!!!!!!

Breakfast was oats soaked in boiling water for 5 mins, topped with strawberries and blueberries.

For lunch I had mixed green salad leaves with leftovers from last night.

Afternoon tea was a handful of cashews and 2 slices of rockmelon! I'm sure you know what that looks like! ;-)
I made a batch of home-made soymilk & used the Okara to make coconut cookies. This recipe is delicious! I love making these cookies for my daughters lunchbox treat.


Dinner was my Zucchini Pasta with Pumpkin 'Cheeze' Sauce.

For dessert I had my standard banana ice-cream..... but with a bit of a twist.
Simply blend a frozen banana with a tablespoon of natural peanut butter & enough soymilk to blend. So good! 

Chocolate Popeye Ice-cream!!!

We all know how much Popeye loved his spinach! So if he ever did eat ice-cream, I'm sure he would of had it like this!!!

Ice-cream Popeye would love!

Combine:

 --> one chopped frozen banana
 --> 1 cup of frozen spinach leaves
 --> 1 Tablespoon cacao or cocoa powder
 --> 2-4 Tablespoons plant-milk    

Blend in a food processor or blender until smooth.

Blend really well so you don't get any large pieces of spinach.

The amount of milk you need will depend on your processor. Add it Tablespoon by Tablespoon til you find the amount you need - you want enough to combine and blend the ice-cream but not too much that it becomes runny.

Click here to find out all the amazing nutrients that spinach contains.
I guess Popeye was right.... spinach really does pack a powerful punch!

Day 5 Unprocessed

Today started with quinoa & raisins for breakfast.
I really love having quinoa for breakfast. I just think it goes so well with milk :-)

Quinoa is so easy to cook. Its just like cooking rice or pasta. `1 cup quinoa to 3 cups of water in a pot, bring to boil, simmer 10-15 minutes. You'll be able to tell when it's 'done' because the seeds pop open and become translucent with a little white ring around them. It keeps well in the fridge and freezes well too which means you can make a big batch & then use it when needed.


Lunch was soup! Best thing to have on cold, rainy days.... Well I just love soup on any day really!

This soup is really simple yet really tasty.
1/2 cup red lentils, 2 carrots, one small onion, 1 cup stock, 2 cups water. Bring to boil, simmer. Use a stick blender til desired consistency of soup is reached.

Baked dinner of tofu, herbed potatoes, green beans and a corn cob.

YAY FOR DESSERT TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Check out the recipe for my Pop-eye Ice-cream.

Strawberry "Ice-cream"

Adding to my collection of frozen desserts.

Its always fun to add more flavours to the collection!

Here's a strawberry version.

You'll need:

2 frozen bananas

1/2 cup chopped frozen strawberries

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup soymilk

Blend together in a high powered blender or mini food processor.

Serve :-)

Yum!

Banana Soft Serve

This is a quick & easy way to make "ice-cream"
Fantastic for kids too - not full of sugar like store bought soft serve.

You'll need:

2 frozen bananas
1 heaped tablespoon smooth        natural peanut butter
1 tablespoon of cacao powder (or cocoa powder if you choose)
2 tablespoon chocolate soymilk

Put into a mini food processor and blend til well combined.

Pour into a serving glass & sprinkle with granulated nuts.

Hot Days call for Cool measures

This is the perfect afternoon snack for children on hot days!
Who needs zooper doopers when you can make this in 5 mins flat!

I like to keep a decent stash of frozen fruit in my freezer - it always comes in handy.

You'll need:

1 cup frozen pineapple
1 cup frozen chopped strawberries pieces.
2 oranges, juice freshly squeezed - (of course you must eat all the guts out of the oranges once you have juiced them!!!!!)

Put it all in a food processor, or hand held blender.
Blend til smooth!


This amount will  make you 2 large servings or 4 smaller size servings.

~Very delicious~

Life is good!

Tonight's dessert: (serves one ONLY!)

1/2 packet frozen cherries
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 frozen banana
50ml soymilk
Blend.
YUM

Just a suggestion....

Ice-cream..... mmmmmmmmmmm
But my favourite way to have it is to mix in some peanut butter - crunchy of course - with chocolate ice-cream!
ENJOY!

I know this doesn't look too appetising - and its not the world's greatest recipe to have on a blog - but none the less I love it soooo much that I just had to share it!!!!!

Better Than Ice-cream

My favourite dessert :-)
I love black forest cake - this treat has a similar flavour but without all that fat & sugar.

Combine in a blender or food processor:

           1 frozen banana

           1 cup frozen pitted cherries

           100ml chocolate soy milk

Process until smooth.
Serve.

Makes about 2 servings