Banana Ice Cream is a Lie

Favors and ideas?  I have an idea: don't try to substitute bananas for ice cream.  

Let me go back.  I am watching what I eat.  Typically, this consists of watching way too much food go into my face, but lately, I have been watching portion sizes and things.  It is summer, after all, and darlings, my kids, bless them, really love to go to the pool.  So I would not be the mama in the mumu, I decided to get healthy.  

Which is a problem, because I love my sweets.  So, when I saw a recipe for how you can replace ice cream cravings with frozen, blended bananas, I nearly wept with excitement.

Like a little spring lamb, I chopped and froze all the bananas that we had in the house.  I couldn't wait to throw those bad boys in my Cuisinart.

Well, sure enough, I cough down dinner to get to dessert.  Tossing the banana chunks in my food processor with gusto, darlings, I blended them up.  Bananas and vanilla extract and some honey, oh my.

And the result was a cruel, miserable lie.  Frozen bananas taste like bananas, not ice cream.

There, I have spared you the humiliation of having to learn this lesson for yourselves.  Frozen bananas are wonderful if you are craving cold bananas, but from now on if I want ice cream, I'm going to eat ice cream.  A whole little half cup of delicious, frozen heavy cream and sugar.  

I will just eat it less often and save those frozen bananas for my smoothies.  

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