all i have to say is...

[swingchickie]

...homemade strawberry ice cream is the SHIZZLE.

wow is this stuff good. and easy to make! and even better is the fact that using lower-fat and lower-cal ingredients didn't ruin the texture like i'd thought... it made perfectly awesome strawberry-y goodness, with only 1 WW POINT for an entire cup of it! woo-hoo!!!!

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[steven.livejournal.com]

How are you making it?

I recently saw someone on the Food Network make pineapple sherbet, and it looked ridiculously easy. They cooked a few cans of pineapple chunks, blended it into buttermilk, put it in the freezer, and that was all. Naturally, I have been wanting to try it ever since.

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

ooh! that sounds good. this was the recipe that i used (from the book "ice cream for dummies"), i'll call out where i substituted:

heat 1 cup whole milk (i used 1% lactaid) with 2 tbsp cornstarch in a double boiler until the mixture coats the back of a spoon; put into an ice bath to cool down

blend 2 pints of strawberries, hulled and sliced (i used a bag of frozen sliced strawberries) with 3/4 cup sugar (i used splenda) in a blender

add strawberry mixture to milk mixture, and stir in 2 cups heavy whipping cream (i used fat free half and half)

chill in fridge until mixture is 40 degrees, then blend in ice cream maker

(you can also add in a couple of drops of red food coloring to make it pinker, i didn't though.)