It's the Right Thing to Do with Ice Cream

My Oatmeal-Ice Cream Dessert by Me

Ingredients
1. Oatmeal
2. Ice Cream

I came up with this idea entirely on my own, and I'm very proud of it. You take one Quaker flavored instant oatmeal pack. The Maple and Brown Sugar works best, though other flavors are good too. Add water and microwave for 60 seconds. Try not to add as much water as they say on the directions, because it's best if the oatmeal isn't too soupy. When it's done, add vanilla ice cream liberally, and serve (quickly). The ice cream will melt into the oatmeal, and it will be almost like a real dessert.

PS For dinner, I had porcini sauce that I bought at a specialty market and served it with angel air pasta.

Ice! Cream! Yaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

This has been on my 100 List from the first whack at it and I finally tried it!  Twice!  I wanted to take a lovely food porn picture of that ice cream but I just couldn't make it last that long, thank God we've still got some at Erin's (maybe).

Mocha Chip Ice Cream (10 x 1/2 cup servings)

1 c whole milk, well chilled
3/4 c granulated sugar
1 1/2 T cocoa powder
1 1/2 T instant espresso powder
2 cups heavy cream, well chilled
1 t vanilla extract (I have a heavy hand with it though)
4 oz chopped up semi-sweet chocolate

Beat milk, sugar, cocoa and espresso into the stand mixer and let it beat for about a minute on "low".  Stir in cream and vanilla.  Turn the ice cream machine on and then pour the stuff in (VERY important that the machine be already running when you start pouring the stuff in because those freezer chests are REALLY cold and it will block up the beater if you don't have it in motion already).  Beat for about 20 minutes, till it's recognizably ice cream but it's not frozen solid yet and then pour the chocolate into the top and let it stir for another 5 minutes.  Pour it into a bowl and put it in the freezer to firm up a bit.  It was... divine.

The blueberry frozen yogurt was a little more spontaneous.  We mixed 2 cups of vanilla yogurt (well, technically 1 3/4 cup vanilla and 1/4 c plain), 1 cup of whole milk (was supposed to be 1/2 cup but I made a mistake and no one noticed), a GENEROUS splash of vanilla (I didn't mean it to be quite so generous but...) and about 1 1/2 cups of frozen blueberries.  The recipe that I found said that you were supposed to puree and strain the berries but I threw them in whole and frozen and it worked out just fine.  Bright purple but tasty.