Easy ice-cream

Last year I posted my easy strawberry ice cream recipe, I wanted to share it again but with a slight twist

 

Ingredients:

 

500g Frozen fruit (we use one of the following strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, bananas, gooseberries or apples)

 

125g cream or yogurt (the twist for a healthier version)

 

75g icing sugar or caster sugar

 

Put all three ingredients into your food processor and blitz for 3-4 minutes until all fruit is smooth

 

I have started mixing my fruit too, I take my scales to the freezer and take a handful of the fruits I think will work together until I have 500g.

 

The alpine strawberries in our garden are ripening so I am putting them on top of the boys ice-cream until we have picked them all

 

I hope you enjoy it as much as we do

 

Natalie

 

 

 

Growing your own

This year Barry and I decided to get back to growing a few vegetables ourselves, not wanting to put too much pressure on ourselves. I volunteered for the outside plants, carrots, peas, beans, courgettes and beats have all been panted. Barry is in charge of the green house. He has toms, foxgloves (not edible, I know) and lettuce growing.

We had an adult dinner this evening with both boys tucked up in bed tired from their weekly swimming lesson. Ricotta and mushroom pizza with home grown lettuce, so yummy.

Lettuce can be grown indoors too if you don't have a green house, any pot, old coffee jar, or tray will do. Simply fill with soil and sprinkle your seeds in, we like these best. Water regularly. Cut and come again varieties are great.

One cropped drop into a bucket or your sink full of ice cold water, swill then spin, we use a salad spinner and can't recommend it highly enough

Natalie