Pina Colada Ice Cream is A Diet Ruiner
October 9th, 2006
Yes, that’s right - I ate very conservatively all week - five days of behaving myself, staying away from too much sugar and too many carbs. Holding myself to only one portion at every meal.
I was very happy with myself and was doing really well. I’ve decided to shed 5 pounds, hopefully this month. My problem is, and always has been, that I love to cook! So it’s hard for me to eat less when I like being in the kitchen, creating delicious foods.
Saturday, I had to make ice cream. Truly. It’s a long story, but I will share it with you because that is what this blog is for! My son and daughter’s youth group was having an Iron Chef contest. What this means is that each small group of kids was given an hour in a host kitchen to make as yummy a dinner as possible, using a secret ingredient. They only got an hour and they all had to use oranges in some way or another. They knew a week ahead of time what the secret ingredient was, so they had some time to plan and get the right groceries.
Well, my son’s group decided they were going to make homemade ice cream and add orange juice to it. (I’m not really sure how this would have turned out.) He volunteered me to get the right ingredients for the ice cream, and to donate use of our ice cream maker. Fine. I bought the whipping cream, half and half, extra milk, etc.
Then — later than I should have — I realized that you cannot make homemade ice cream in an hour or less. It can’t be done. At least, not with my ice cream maker. So, in the end, we bought ice cream and they somehow added the orange juice to it.
I was left with all the ingredients for homemade ice cream in my fridge. It was like fate. What else was I supposed to do? A person can’t just let whipping cream go bad in their fridge. Every time I noticed it, hovering behind the milk and juice, it called out to me… “ice cream… ice cream.”
So, finally I caved in. Whenever we make homemade ice cream, we argue about what flavor to make. Sam wanted coffee. Rachel wanted mint. Rachel wanted cookie dough. Someone wanted plain vanilla. Chocolate. Oreo. Oh, decisions, decisions!
I compromised by deciding for everyone, consulting only my husband.
Pina Colada Ice Cream
2 c. milk
2 c. sugar
1/2 t. salt
2 1/2 c. half and half
1 T. vanilla
4 c. whipping cream
1/2 c. cream of coconut
1/4 c. toasted coconut
3/4 c. pineapple juice or crushed pineapple
If you have an ice cream maker, you will know what to do with the ingredients. If you don’t, you probably won’t make this at all. However, I will give a brief rundown…
Basically, get out a large pot and dump all of these ingredients into it. Warm it up on the stove — don’t boil, just heat it until the sugar dissolves. Then you can pour it into the center part of your ice cream machine. Put the dasher in and assemble the machine. Use ice and rock salt to fill the outer part of your machine. Turn it on, and let it run until the ice cream is too thick for the dasher to turn any longer. Meanwhile, keep the outer tub full of ice and rock salt. As it melts, you have to add more. When the motor shuts off, place the ice cream into your freezer to finish hardening. Let it freeze at least another hour or two.
Entry Filed under: Desserts, Mixed bag, Old-Fashioned Foods, Recipes, Supper, Table talk
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