Mango Banana Ice Cream

This morning, Trey asked for ice cream. I told him, "why not?"

You're probably thinking, "She let her 4 year old have ice cream for breakfast?!" Yup. I did. But it's not the sugary, heavy, dairy filled goop you're probably envisioning. This ice cream, (the raw vegan world calls it nice cream) has just two ingredients. Frozen bananas and frozen organic mangoes. So simple. Two pure ingredients. No added sugar. No additives. Yeah, you could probably just eat the bananas and mangoes and who doesn't love the novelty of making and then eating homemade ice cream. We don't use recipes in my house, we pretty much make things up as we go along and then just "eyeball" the ingredients. Bare with me, use your own taste and texture preferences here:)

At least a day before, get very ripe (I'm talking loaded with brown spots) bananas, peel, cut and freeze them in a glass container.

The next day, get your frozen bananas and frozen mangoes (Costco has a huge bag of organic frozen mangoes for less than $10)

Stick them in your blender and pulse until most fruit chunks are no longer chunks. Then blend. If needed, take breaks in between to push down the sides with a spoon. Try not to add any liquid. You want the ice cream to be thick. Like sorbet. If you have to, you can add a tablespoon r two of water. I'd recommend a high powered blender for this. No, it doesn't have to be a vitamix. A Ninja will work fine. Other blenders will work, you'll just have to have more patience with them:)

Now scoop into a nice glass and garnish with some fruit. There ya go. Super fast, super easy. Healthy and not filled with sugar, fat or GMO's.

Organic Gardening Update

So we had a family of piggies devour our first garden. Yup. Everything but the tomatoes. Which, by the way, we got more than 300 tomatoes from! (YAY!) Four weeks ago, we started all over and planted some seeds.

Quick flashback to January 21, 2014

Putting the seeds into the soil.

We planted Japanese cucumbers, sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, beets, radish, kale, blue kale, spinach, arugula, eggplant, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, watermelon, corn, peas, cucumbers, bush beans, green beans. All GMO-free and organic.

UPDATE: February 18, 2014
Here is what are garden looks like after 4 weeks.

Today, we transplanted the plants that were outgrowing their pots. We also made a little area for our beans, peas, cucumbers, zucchini and corn.