i have a feeling we're now finally ready for the ultimate goodness: homemade icecream. this recipe is so authentic i'm almost tempted to say it's the mother of all icecream recipes. after all, it comes from a real italian grandmother.
and it's delicious and dead simple. sometimes life is just beautiful.
here it comes:
300g strawberries
200g meringues
250ml cream
blend strawberries, powder meringues, whip cream. then mix it all together, put bowl in freezer, done.
you might have realized, that's the quick'n'dirty way. (but really, when it comes to icecream, who has time for more than that?)
obviously, you could also take the icecream out of the freezer ever so often, mix it up again to break the ice crystals that have formed, thereby creating a somewhat smoother texture of the whole. or, you could get (or have) an icecream machine that does the very same thing for you.
if you're asking me, the flavour's the same, so why bother?
i've experimented a bit with substituting some of the cream with greek yoghurt (the 10% variety) and using raspberries instead of strawberries and sugar instead meringues, oh well, yes, i've changed every single ingredient, and it was still delicious. however, the less fat you use, the harder the stuff will get, and the more difficult it will be to get it out of the tub.
when a scoop or two of this icecream meet a glass of milk in the blender, they magically turn themselves into an amazing milk shake.
yum! yum! yum!
