Go Bananas.

I'm sure many of you have heard of the "One Ingredient Ice Cream." I can't even link that title because there are so many places to find it. But it is really a phenomena. Frozen bananas, blended up in whatever you have, be it a Magic Bullet or a GLORIOUS Vitamix...(Laura..) this treat will ALWAYS leave you wondering if ALL ice cream is made out of banana's. The texture is SO creamy and bananas melt in your mouth just as well as any other soft serve you've had.

Now, not to discredit my Magic Bullet, because I do love it- but it takes quite a bit of knocking around to get it to blend up frozen bananas so smoothly. So this morning, to spare my bullet a brutal beating, I whipped out my Horizon Chocolate Milk. I love this chocolate milk, it tastes rich yet not too sweet. I figured the cool temperature of the milk and the frozen banana's would find a happy place in the bullet and be able to blend smoothly. Not only was I right- but it tastes SO GOOD. Holy cow.

Please try this, and if you don't have the means, come here and we'll freeze some chopped up banana's together and have an exquisite summer treat..

Lemon Frozen Dessert

It seems like it should be called "Frozen Lemon Dessert".. but being that this dessert is one of my dad's favorites, he believes the word "lemon" should come first.

Lemon Frozen Dessert

Ingredients:

1 Lemon, juice and zest

3 eggs, beaten

3/4 cups of sugar

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

Graham crackers (crushed)

Combine the first 3 ingredients in a double boiler at medium heat. Stir with a whisk for 8-10 minutes, until it thickens.. to the point where it coats a spoon. Pour into bowl and LET COOL (or refridgerate.) While it cools, whip the cream and once the lemon concoction is cooled, fold in the whipped cream. Line the bottom of an 8x8 pan with crushed graham crackers, pour in mixture and top with remaining graham crackers, freeze.

Try not to eat all of it.

In the case it happens to you..

I accidentally bought a bag of Hershey's "Hugs" instead of "Kisses."

I don't particularly like white chocolate, since I don't even consider it chocolate, however I think it is great on pretzels. So if you have a bag of these dang Hugs, and you don't know what to do with them, stick them on some mini pretzels and throw them in the oven at 250 degrees for about 5 minutes. Let set- and try to prevent yourself from eating all of them while watching the Biggest Loser.

Apple Crisp

I needed this recipe, because I had a whole bag of apples that was going to go to waste. So this was perfect, because I really don't like pie. I made a couple adjustments to Creede's recipe, but really, you can't go wrong with this.

Apple Crisp

6 apples peeled and sliced

2 cups flour
1 cup granulated sugar
2 sticks softened butter

1/2 tsp salt*

1/2 oats*
Cinnamon and or Nutmeg to your liking

Press half of mixture in a baking dish and top with apples. (I sprinkled some cinnamon sugar on top of the apples before spreading the crumble..)

Top apples loosely with remaining mix. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. Apples should be tender and crumble top golden.

*These were my adjustments.