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Ice cream, no cooking, no churning

January 3, 2015 by Tania 16 Comments

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Ice Cream, no cooking

New Years Day is always a dilemma for me because I’m tired, sometimes hung over and always always hot. If I am at home in Sydney then I have family over.  I try to make something that is easy to eat and looks like I haven’t done any cooking because my family always complain that I shouldn’t cook on my birthday. Hello….where else can we go but my house? New Years day and restaurants are not a good combination.  I would bore you with riotous stories of the times we have attempted to go- but suffice to say it is just a short cut back to where I started this story. I certainly didn’t want to make myself a cake- that would be cooking, but this dessert..? this is not cooking.

Ice cream, no cooking no churning

Mix and freeze.... really
5 from 4 votes
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Course Dessert
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • 395 gm condensed milk. 1 can, sweetened
  • 600 ml cream (thickened or high fat whipping cream)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla bean scraped or 1 vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Open the can of milk and pour into the bowl of your mixer.
  • Add the cream and the vanilla
  • Beat till thickened and fluffy- just like cream. Don't over mix because just like cream it will separate.
  • Pour into the mould and smooth down . Cover and freeze. Overnight is best but if you have a good freezer then 3-4 hours
  • To serve. Prepare the fruit or anything you would like to serve on top of your ice cream. Turn out the ice cream onto a platter and remove the plastic wrap. add the fruit and serve. it melts very quickly.

This year began for me quite early, in fact I didn’t get much sleep on New Years Eve. I slept beside a fellow I found on the road in Marrickville. We had the lights on because he was scared of the dark. I promised to drive him home in the morning, even though I really had no idea where he actually lived, he had no identification on him.  I managed to find where he came from and I am hoping this small good deed I performed gives me good Karma for the whole year. Meet Benji….

Ice cream, no cooking and a little friend visits

He is now home with his relieved Mum after a very sleepless night for her too.  The moral of the story folks… put all cherished ones inside when there are fireworks.

Back to the food. … and cooking things that look like you have done no cooking.

I came across some wholewheat Israeli couscous the other day. It feels almost wrong to be suggesting you actually eat something made of wheat… like I am swimming against the tide. So, if you don’t have anything against wheat then this makes a pretty good salad.  I’m not going to give you a recipe for this salad nor the next one because this is a post about Very Simple Ice Cream, no cooking and no churning, but I will give you some very basic directions in case you want some inspiration. This is what we ate .

Ice cream, no cooking followed by-israeli-couscous-pumpkin-and-beetroot-

Cook a cup of Israeli couscous. Drain and rinse, put into a bowl with 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard, 3 tablespoons balsamic and 1/4 cup of olive oil, salt and pepper mix and leave. It will soak up the dressing and this will be extra good.  Sit aside while you prepare roasted pumpkin, cooked beetroot, blanched green beans, slices of tiny cucumbers and some creamy feta. Mix everything together except the feta and serve with extra dressing. Crumble the feta on top.  Simple.

I was taken with a beautiful salad at Great Aunty Three in Newtown last week. A fresh crispy, chilli, garlic noodle delight and that’s what I wanted to eat. I took a shortcut and bought some Roast Pork Belly from a butcher. This slab of splinteringly perfect crackling and soft meat is perfect to make salad with.

Ice cream, no cooking followed by Roast-pork-cashew-and-noodles-salad.

For my copy of this Vietnamese salad I started with a jar and added two rough chopped cloves of garlic, the roots and stems of a well washed bunch of coriander, juice of 3 lemons or 4-5 limes, 1/2 cup of coconut water ( or plain water), 1-2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 2 slithers of ginger and 2-3 Tablespoons of palm sugar. Put the lid on and shake this till the sugar is dissolved ( you can dissolve the sugar in a tiny bit of boiling water.). Always make the dressing first. You will need to add fish sauce and sugar till it tastes just how you like it- then add chopped chilli if you like.  Make the salad by finely slicing a 1/4 cabbage, 2 cups of very fresh bean shoots, sliced Spanish onion- I use chives because I hate raw onion, a bunch of mint leaves, coriander leaves, and a small packet of soaked   (dried) rice noodles. Toss the salad with sliced pork reserving the chopped crackling for the top along with chopped nuts. Dress the salad ( keeping a little back). put onto plates or a platter. Top with crackling and nuts and a bit of extra dressing. This is also great with fried shallots that you get at the Asian store. Simple. Good.

But back to the Ice Cream Cake………..

Ice Cream, no cooking with fruit

Simple. Good.

** Just a note .  It usually comes out of the mould smooth and firm but when I turned out this ice cream it was over 35 C  (above 95 F). So the sides melted a bit faster than usual.

Try this Caramel and summer Fruit version

 

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  1. Malinda @mybrownpaperpackages

    January 18, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    I did a no gadget ice cream for new year too, so easy and delicious. And I love the look of that salad!!

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  2. Lucy @ Bake Play Smile

    January 16, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    I love that this doesn’t need churning. There is seriously nothing better than an ice-cream cake during summer (ice cream is by far my biggest weakness!!). Thanks so much for joining our super yummy Fabulous Foodie Fridays party!!
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  3. Angie@Angie's Recipes

    January 4, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    You have me long for SUMMER! This ice cream cake looks awesome, Tania.
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  4. Nagi@RecipeTinEats

    January 4, 2015 at 7:08 am

    5 stars
    Oh my gosh. I had a moment where I seriously thought you spent NYE sleeping in the gutter next to a homeless man. Then I saw the cute puppy pic and thought “Phew!! And HOW CUTE!!” You have me fascinated with this no churn ice cream. Every one I see that promises “no churn” always has banana in it, and I hate bananas! I happen to have the ingredients in the fridge so I’m going to try it today!
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  5. Hotly Spiced

    January 4, 2015 at 6:29 am

    You did do a very good deed and I believe what goes around comes around so you should be expecting great things for your 2015. What a gorgeous little fellow but dogs should also have a tag so if they go missing, the person (good person) who rescues them can phone the owner. What a NYE drama! And happy birthday, Tania – I was thinking of you. Great ice cream cake and I love how it’s ‘no churn’ xx
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  6. Hotly Spiced

    January 4, 2015 at 6:29 am

    You did do a very good deed and I believe what goes around comes around so you should be expecting great things for your 2015. What a gorgeous little fellow but dogs should also have a tag so if they go missing, the person (good person) who rescues them can phone the owner. What a NYE drama! And happy birthday, Tania – I was thinking of you. Great ice cream cake and I love how it’s ‘no churn’ xx
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  7. Victoria of Flavors of the Sun

    January 4, 2015 at 3:06 am

    What a fantastically easy and fun recipe. It reminds me of an ice cream my mother let the grandkids make by putting the ingredients in a large coffee tin with a lid, and letting the kids roll it back and forth between them to “churn” it. Worked like a charm and the kids had fun, too. I sympathize with the pups. My dogs are sooo afraid of fireworks–and Mexico, where I live, is just full of them at all times. They wake up the saints apparently. I’d rather the saints sleep and let my dogs rest easy!
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  8. Helen | Grab Your Fork

    January 4, 2015 at 1:30 am

    What a guardian angel you were on NYE. And this ice cream cake looks perfect for the heat wave we’re having right now. Happy New Year Tania 🙂
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  9. John Stretton

    January 3, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    5 stars
    I’ve made this recipe for some time, I pour it into a washed 2 litre commercial (plastic) Ice Cream container to serve with an ice cream scoop, because one of my granddaughters will not eat any but the “real” ice cream you get from the supermarket!

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    • My Kitchen Stories

      January 3, 2015 at 5:36 pm

      That’s a great story John. The world is a bit upside down these days, don’t you think?

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  10. Francesca

    January 3, 2015 at 2:19 pm

    My grandmother used to make ice cream this way- you have brought back great culinary memories.

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  11. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella

    January 3, 2015 at 11:13 am

    I make something like this but just with cream. Adding the condensed milk would mean that I don’t need to add the sugar (even easier). Poor lil thing but it was great of you to look after him!
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  12. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef

    January 3, 2015 at 11:08 am

    5 stars
    OMG Benji! What an adorable dog and you will have good karma for a lifetime for saving that woman’s precious best friend.

    Did Benji get any cake???

    I’m glad you had a wonderful birthday even if you had to make your own cake.
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  13. Lizzy (Good Things)

    January 3, 2015 at 10:47 am

    5 stars
    Simple and absolutely delicious, what could be better. Love the pooch too! xoxo
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  14. 3outa4

    January 3, 2015 at 8:30 am

    I can attest to this lunch being very scrumptious and the dessert creamy and beautiful. Thank you Tania for cooking for us all on your birthday and allowing us to share the day with you!! We only wish we could have briefly met Benji as he looks so adorable.

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  15. Kari @ bite-sized thoughts

    January 3, 2015 at 5:32 am

    I’m all for stupidly simple! I had no idea you could make ice cream like that, but your version looks like it came out very well.
    Kari @ bite-sized thoughts recently posted..In my kitchen – January 2015My Profile

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