Ice Cream anytime.

Here we are in Southern California, on a sunny afternoon, enjoying the beauty of the Huntington Gardens and Museum with our grandchild.  It's a good time to indulge all of our senses. That means sweets and ice-cream. 
Yes, I would have preferred my own, home-made berry and cream ice cream, but then...

Here is the Recipe:

Ingredients:

3C strawberries, washed and sliced.
4 T freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 1/2 C of sugar, divided
1 1/2 C whole milk
2 3/4 C heavy cream
1 1/2teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Combine strawberries, lemon juice and 1/2 cup of sugar. Stir gently and allow the berries to macerate for 2 hours or so. Strain and reserve the juice.
Mash half the berries.

In a mixing bowl, with a hand mixer on low speed, combine the milk and the rest of the sugar until all dissolved. Stir the heavy cream, the juice, the mashed berries and  thevanilla.

If you have an ice cream machine, pour the mixture in the cold bowl and mix for 20-25 minutes until smooth. After ten minutes, add the rest of the berries you have not mashed and blended before.

 If you do not have a machine, freeze the mixture and stir it every ten minutes to blend and incorporate all the ingredients, including the rest of the berries kept whole.
Freeze in an airtight container for a couple of hours.

Enjoy!
This is a rich dessert, but it is wholesome. No artificial ingredients at all.
If you want to cut down calories, use half and half instead of cream, and Splenda instead of sugar.

Make Things Happen!

This sign could sit in some modern kitchen!
In yours, make something happen today.

How many different berries are there in your neck of the woods?

For fun and function, have a berry party,  or any fruit abundant at your farmers' market. We made ice-cream, enough to have seconds and third, with ripe, luscious Oregon berries kissed by the sun at the end of their growth period, nurtured by the rain all the way to that last moment.

Ice-cream is easy to make, milk, cream, sugar, lemon juice and berries. Nothing to it!