On Sun, 09 May 2010 14:05:24 -0700, Bob Williams
wrote:

joevan wrote:
On Sun, 09 May 2010 02:21:35 -0700, Bob Williams
wrote:

Just add a little Haagen Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream and you have pure Nirvana.
Bob Williams
From your garden? Those are perfect looking. I had some just the other
day. Instead of ice cream I use bananas. I peel a few put then in the
freezer overnight and then thru my heavy duty machine which pulps
anything that goes in it. The bananas come out tasting a lot like ice
cream without the vein clogging fat etc. It is pretty good too.

I wish I could grow berries like that!
I got these from Costco. ($5 for 4 pounds!!!)
These commercial growers have a bunch of tricks up their sleeve to get
such large and perfect looking berries.
I've tried growing strawberries several times but mine always are about
1/2-1/3 as big as these beauties, but their flavor is even better.

I like your idea of using frozen banana puree in place of ice cream.
I just recently bought one of those high-powered blenders (Blendtec) and
I really like it. As much as I love Haagen Dazs ice cream I know that
the fats are terrible for my already high cholesterol and triglycerides.
Strawberries and frozen banana puree sounds like a win-win combination.
Bob
Eat it immediately after processing. I will go now and get some
strawberries for my sweet tooth and do the win-win combo.
A wonderful lady at the gym clued me in on the frozen banana. She is
so perfect in form and such a nice 60ish year old lady. She brings in
quart jars of pulped veggies etc to the gym everyday. I found out
about the machines from her. She said she uses an omega but I found a
champion real cheap 50 bucks and 20 for shipping. It was used but it
works great. I clean it immediately after each use and it sure has
been a help to me. I ran 2.3 miles today on the treadmill in 32
minutes, a distance and time record for me so far. My max was 1.5
miles in 22 min's and once I did a mile in a little less than 10
min's.
I will be 68 in November and looking forward to doing 4 miles in an
hour by then. I lost 2 pounds since going on my raw veggie diet of
cabbage, carrots, broccoli, asparagus, fresh corn etc all put thru
that machine. Doesn't taste bad at all. And I think of Jack Lalane who
said he didn't eat anything that tasted too good. He is about a 100 a
still going along well.
I am going for a general heart stress test on Tuesday ( just for the
record, no problems} and I am not worried about doing the treadmill
test.