{"id":28918,"date":"2024-07-11T18:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=28918"},"modified":"2024-07-11T18:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T22:29:14","slug":"almost-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=28918","title":{"rendered":"Almost ice cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ice_cream.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ice_cream.jpg 840w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ice_cream-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ice_cream-768x619.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You do have an ice cream machine, don&#8217;t you? They actually work, and they&#8217;re not very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be lying if I claimed that I can make a frozen dessert that&#8217;s just as good as ice cream but healthier. But it&#8217;s possible to make satisfactory substitutes, and with less work, too. Making real ice cream is a big job. You have to cook a custard, then chill it for hours, then freeze it. And the ingredients are heart-stoppers &#8212; egg yolks, cream, and sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Bananas work remarkably well to make no-cream ice cream smoother and less icy. The ice cream in the photo is made from a banana, some dried dates, plain soybean milk, a touch of nutmeg, and a few drops of vanilla. Whiz it in the blender, then put the mixture in the ice cream machine. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cuisinart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cuisinart.jpg 840w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cuisinart-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/cuisinart-768x661.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do have an ice cream machine, don&#8217;t you? They actually work, and they&#8217;re not very expensive. I&#8217;d be lying if I claimed that I can make a frozen dessert that&#8217;s just as good as ice cream but healthier. But it&#8217;s possible to make satisfactory substitutes, and with less work, too. Making real ice cream &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=28918\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almost ice cream&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28918"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28927,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918\/revisions\/28927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}