Raposas Kitchen: July 2011

My goodness it's been a while since I've posted.
But it's because I've been very busy and working on losing weight.

Making a cooking blog & losing weight tend to cancel each other out.
But now that I've lost just about 20 lbs I can kind of start eating normal food again.

As long as it's low cal, anyway.

So here is my newest creation I found at Freestyle Farm and I'm in love!

And thankfully so is my family.

Here's what you'll need:

3 ripe peeled bananas frozen overnight or all day
Honey or Agave Nectar
A food processor

Yep, that's it.

Chop the bananas into 3 parts each.
Put them in the processor with some honey
Chop.

The consistency of chopped frozen bananas is just like ice cream and it's OMG good!

I made 2 batches each a little different than the basic recipe.

For the first one, I added a bit of almond extract and some lactaid milk just to mellow the overwhelming banana flavor. And that was very good.

For the second batch, I used almond milk, almond extract and about half a cup of strawberries. This was also super yummy, but has a slightly different consistency.

While the first batch is ice cream like, the second batch is more frozen yogurt-ish because the strawberries thinned out the thickness of the bananas a bit. However, it's still really good.

The food processor is super loud, and you may have to stop it a couple of times to stir the mixture to make sure everything gets chopped evenly.

The container on the right is the plain banana and the one on the left is the one with strawberries. You can see the difference in texture.

If you want something more yogurty then you could add all kinds of fruit to it, but if you really want that thick ice cream like feel to it, then I'd recommend sticking to just bananas.

Of course, if you're dieting, keep in mind that a banana is 100 calories and factor in the calories of whatever else you put into this. For me, this is something strictly for dessert or when something to satisfy my sweet tooth. Although, since I've started dieting, I've given up sweets and so I've gotten to the point where I don't even really crave them anymore.

In other news, since it's summer i've been enjoying the weather & avoiding my kitchen