Ice cream dreams

If you just read my last post, forgive me, because I am about to talk about my plans to make my own ice-cream, which is by no means a healthy treat. Although, according to my ice-cream recipe book, vegan ice-cream contains way less bad-for-you stuff than regular ice-cream. My sister-in-law (but not quite in law) L gave me an ice-cream maker and vegan ice cream recipe book for crassmass. She's heaven. But I can't even remember what ice-cream tastes like. This will be very very interesting.

So, although the process involves a lot of patience, which I have little of, I will attempt a simple recipe first. Peanut butter and jelly (jam) ice-cream. YUM. I have been craving the delightful combo of salty nuts and sweet sweet jam for a while now. So this is perfecto. I will post photo's once it's done. Prepare to be shocked.

Thoughts on food

You can probably tell by now that I love food. It's one obsession that Doug and I share. I'm not into eating compost though, or rabbits, or grass, or duck shit. No wonder Doug's breath stinks so bad. Anyway, as I was saying, I love eating lots of food. I love eating out. But the thing I hate about being away from home for extended periods is eating out for every meal. We just returned home from Victoria and I'm so excited about cooking our own meals every night. N and I promised each other that we would abstain from junk for a week or so because we feel like crap from all the crap we've been eating over the past two weeks. It's just that when I get to a city I think "I've got to eat as much good food as I can while I'm here" and then I feel sick for a while. Just because we're vegan doesn't meal we're healthy. You have to invest time and energy into eating a balanced diet when you're  vegan, mostly because you don't want to end up sick and hear a chorus of "I told you so!" from the omni's. 

So this week we will be eating the following meals:

1. Miso soup and sushi

2. Stir fry with asian greens, ginger, lemon, tofu etc. 

3. Thai red curry with pumpkin and eggplant (okay this is a bit naughty)

4. Steamed vegies, mashed potato, and vegie sausages (this is basically fast-food for us)

5. Simple pasta with eff-loads of mushrooms and vegies and beans.

Yeah, ok, sounds a bit boring, but this is what we NEED right now. No burgers. No chips. No pies. No pastry. No lollies. Our snacks will be fruit and raw carrot dipped in hommus. Plenty of tea. Minimal coffee. Dougy is back to his raw meat and grains diet too. Hopefully his breath gets better.

Hope this inspires y'all to have a fresh healthy week too.