IceCream???

 

No, ice cream it is NOT

There's a new 'sensation' going round the keto, low carb diet sites at the moment.  Cottage cheese icecream.

The recipe is very simple with few ingredients. So, I thought I'd give it a try.  So you DON'T have to.

What's it got in it.

- A tub of cottage cheese

- some sort of sweetener.  I used stevia, but you could use honey, maple syrup

- some sort of fruit.  Strawberries, a banana.  You get the idea

- I used a tsp of sugar free cherry jelly crystals

Put it all into a mixer or blender and blend till  that lumpy cottage cheese turns smooth

Put it in the freezer for a few hours.  I divided mine into 3 small containers.

Thank goodness they were small.  You would NOT want to eat a large portion of this stuff.

Ice cream is supposed to be cold, creamy and sweet.  

I didn't put any fruit in but used a bit of vanilla powder to cut down on calories and carbs.

Ok, it was a frozen dessert.  But it wasn't sweet or creamy.

I should have put some alcohol in it. But all we've got is raki and ouzo 🤢

Don't bother unless you're on a very strict diet and are in desperate  need of something slightly reminiscent of a sugar shot.

I've just eaten the second container.  It had been in the freezer for 24 hours so was frozen solid.  Being me, and damn impatient I put it in the microwave for 20 seconds.  

Now that's another experience to write about.  The bottom of the container was hot and the cottage cheese had reverted to chewey cheese.   So I had hot,chewey cheese cherry icecream.  I really should have chucked it.  But NO.

So I've still got another small (65 gram) container of this 'stuff' in the freezer.  I'll let it defrost a little before I shovel it down.  Sometime.  For emergencies only.  I haven't eaten sweets, cakes, icecream for months and didn't need this.

Naturally I didn't stop there.  We have 2 x200 gram tubs of lactose free yoghurt in the fridge which is passed it's expiry date.  I made tzatziki with one tub.  Not a great success either.  We only bought lactose free because it was half the price of the other greek yoghurt.  You really do need full fat, strained greek yoghurt for the best tzatziki.

 I decided to experiment with the other tub.  You'd have thought I would have learnt my lesson with the cottage cheese.  But NO.

So into the mixer went the tub of lactose free, 2 vanilla powders, a tsp of cocoa powder and some stevia.  When I licked the spoon it tasted better than the cottage cheese but it's going to turn out the same, a hard as rocks, slightly sour, poor relation for ice cream.  I shan't put it in the microwave.  I'd probably get curds and whey.

I shan't experiment again.

Last summer when my little brother and family were here they found sugar free ice cream in the icecream parlour on the waterfront.  He does keto to control his diabetes. No sugar.  Now THAT was icecream!  Sugar free, probably full of fat, which is not a problem, icy and creamy.  I helped him  'get rid' of it.  Yum, yum eat it up.

I've kept away from the icecream parlour since then but ......