Care Bears in Wonderland

When I was a little kid, there was one movie that I watched over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over: Care Bears in Wonderland. Danielle just turned it on after finding our taped-off-tv version that's probably from 1991. lol. it's horrible quality, but it's on YouTube.

Ice Cream

I made strawberry ice cream today with my ice cream maker. It was delicious.

Recipe:
(makes 6 servings -- the size of the average ice cream maker)

1 1/2 cups whole milk
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups mashed or pureed fresh strawberries
2 drops red food coloring

1. mix all ingredients in a big bowl then place in the freezer for a few hours.
2. take out and mix the mixture in your ice cream maker.
3. Enjoy!

Personally, I decided to put my strawberries in the food processor and make a nice puree of them, because i'm not fond of big chunks of frozen strawberries. But you could also cut them up and mash them with a fork. Because I pureed the strawberries, I didn't need the food coloring, but you probably will if you mash the berries.

Strawberry Ice Cream about to go in the freezer:


Strawberry Ice Cream when it's finished:



Also, the Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream recipe from a few weeks ago:
(also makes 6 servings)

1 1/2 c. whole milk
1 1/2 c. heavy cream
3/4 c. sugar
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 tsp mint or peppermint extract
2-3 drops of green food coloring.
3/4 c. chocolate chips

Same instructions as above

With this one, I put the chocolate chips in the food processor before mixing them in, because i like chocolate shavings in my mint choco chip ice cream, and not whole or pieces of chips. But really, however you want to do it will work fine.

Also, if you want to make the recipes a little healthier, substitute the whole milk for 2%. It will taste basically the same, except the tiniest bit less creamy.



In other news, I changed the name of my blog to This Critical Conscience, which is a lyric from the Jack's Mannequin song "American Love". I was listening to it the other day and thought about how it would make a great screen name, but i decided to just name my blog that instead.