They Scream, Ice Cream!!!

egg+milk+cream+sugar=ice cream... once when i was about 10 or 11 my family BBQ'ed with friends and us men ended up in the driveway hand crankin strawberry ice cream.  we all had to take turns keeping it moving so it wouldn't ice up.  we hand cut strawberries with a pocket knife, ate half of them while we waited, and 25 minutes later we had home made ice cream.  i talked about that day for decades until one day my parents showed up on my doorstep with a treasure they had found; a 1960's sears and roebuck ice cream maker that was ready to churn.  today that ice cream maker has a special spot in the corner shelf of our kitchen and these girls know exactly where it lives. 

two or three times a year we drag it out and spend some quality time makin dessert.  this time lilly and iris created some vanilla chocolate chip!  we found a recipe in the ben and jerry's book from JRF and quickly mixed our ingredients.

next, to the backyard where we pack the pail with layers of ice and salt, tighten in the motor (yes a motor, i don't think we have the desire to crank for 25 minutes) and sit and wait for the magic to happen.

its hard work!  its cold and its loud but every kid loves salt...and before you know...voila! time to mine some ice cream!

now its off to the freezer where we will let it setup till after dinner.  what a special dessert with sooo many memories. of course we will sample a little along the way and there is plenty here to last us for the whole week! 

Healthy Gut Buster:  A study in Nutrition Research found that people who egg it up consume fewer total calories the rest of the day.  I have done the microwave coffee cup scramble twice this week and those days were great!  Gonna try to work it into my routine at least a couple times a week!