Ice Cream ~ scream! It's so good!

The weather is HOT and muggy. I'm not really complaining (well kinda) it's just that we've gone from cold and rain for two weeks to this summery weather. I know I can't really complain because weather around the country has been so harsh to so many. I'm still shocked at the images on the news round the world and our country.

On a more cheery note. I've made up our first batch of ice cream! For a while now I've tried to say no to the one thing not so good for me, food items. Ok one of many. But I can't seem to stop craving ice cream. As I'm on this journey to eat more whole foods and swipe out of our lives the fake not so good for us ingredients, I found myself on a little journey figuring out how to make my own batch of ice cream.

I'll confess that I don't really have the time to do a tutorial. When I was researching on how to make ice cream I came across this great little video. So why recreate the wheel? I'm offering the tutorial that I go by here on my blog. (see below)

I'm one of the privileged who have a Kitchen Aid mixer, and with that I have the ice cream attachment. I guess ice cream makers don't go for that much but the selling factor for me was storage. I got the seventy-something dollar Kitchen Aid mixer ice cream attachment, oh years ago. The thing was sitting in a box for nothing short of 4 years until last week. I'll say it makes the best ice cream I've ever tasted. It's probably not the attachment. It's probably the fresh real ice cream ingredients.

We buy our milk from a local dairy farmer who breeds Jersey Cows. Their milk is a little bit richer than Holstein (black & white cows). It's richer but lower in fat I guess. The heavy cream is not homogenized (so I shake it up). But, the ice cream is AMAZING! It's soooo creamy. We do make the Philadelphia style rather than the French mostly because I don't want the kids eating raw eggs. Having said that, it melts very quickly because it has no binders. No fake stuff either. Just milk, cream, sugar and vanilla or whatever flavoring we want to go with. I store ours in a glass Pyrex bowl because it came with a lid and is freezer safe. Now aside from the extra fat added to my diet, I don't feel bad eating ice cream again. There's also the fun I have when my daughter pulls up the stool to help her Mama with the mixer. Because it's such a simple recipe she can feel like she's making the ice cream. No doubt, it's a winner with the kids and The. Mr.

Enough words. Watch the video below (it's not me) and you'll be driven to make your own ice cream this summer. Mmmm!

Cheers!