Ice cream adventures...

We celebrate every holiday with food, if you don't, I'm sorry, you're either terrible people or a family of anorexics. ;)

It was Independence day yesterday and our menu consisted of:

(vegetarian) Corn dogs
Potato Salad
Corn on the cob
Grilled eggplant and zucchini
Vanilla ice cream
and
Brownies

I actually used a weight watchers recipe for the brownies, and even cut out sugar since there were equal parts sugar and flour, yeah, because THAT'S healthy!

My vanilla ice cream was from scratch, the recipe is originally from Better Homes and Gardens, but I altered it a little...

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream:

2 1/2 cups fat free half and half
3/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract (the REAL stuff or I'll break your kneecaps!!!)
and
1 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

Freeze according to manufacturers directions, blah blah blah.

Oh, that IS if your ice cream maker motor doesn't go out before you start making ice cream!!!!!
Which sadly I noticed once everything was poured into the ice cream maker, the rock salt and ice packed around it and I just kept hearing "whir. whir. whir." of a sad little ice cream maker that wasn't going...

Now, Aaron, being an auto body tech/mechanic took a look at it and said something to the effect of, it's dead. But, being the awesome, smart person that he is, and obviously patient too, brought a drill in, attached it to the top of the ice cream maker, and sat there for an hour holding the drill until the ice cream was stirred properly and starting to freeze. We made the best of it and watched "The Next Food Network Star" while waiting...

It all worked out in the end...

Now it's time to buy another ice cream maker. :D

(or a soft serve machine!!!) LOL ;D

Obviously, VERY exciting work :D