New gadgets and goodness

My sexy husband and I got a new desktop computer! It's a fortunate/unfortunate consequence of my sexy husband's lay-off. We were using his work laptop. Then he had to return it.

In honor of our new machine, I'm posting two recipes that you really can't make without a machine like this. I got one for my birthday last summer. Since then it has had a permanent place on my countertop along with my food processor, my toaster, and my aerogarden.

My favorite honey peanut-butter ice cream
This ice cream has a wonderful salty honey base that would be fantastic all by itself but really rounds out the peanut butter and chocolate very nicely. It definitely ranks up there among the best ice creams I've ever had...and I made it up all by myself!

1 cup whole milk (I buy organic because I don't want my sexy husband to get man-boobs from all of those hormones...could that happen?)
2 cup cream (heavy or half and half...you decide.)
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup honey
1/2-3/4 tsp sea salt (the added benefit of the salt is that it keeps the ice cream from freezing rock hard)
1/4 tsp vanilla

1/2 c creamy peanut butter (Sorry, the natural stuff won't work. I used Jiffy.)
a handful of shaved chocolate (I'm still using up Easter bunnies from last year)
a handful of chopped peanuts

Add sugar and honey to milk and whisk until dissolved. Add cream, salt, and vanilla. Whisk to combine. Freeze in ice cream maker. When it's about 5 min from being finished, add the peanut butter by the spoonful and the chocolate and peanuts.

My sexy husband's favorite vanilla chocolate raspberry ice cream
The add-in's in this basic vanilla ice cream were all my sexy husband's idea.

1 cup whole milk
2 cups cream (same deal)
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla (if you are using imitation, you might want to add more)

1 small container red raspberries, roughly broken up
1/2 bottle Smucker's chocolate magic shell ice cream topping

Add the sugar to the milk and whisk until sugar is dissolved. Add cream and vanilla. Pour into ice cream maker. About 5 min before the ice cream is done, add the red raspberries and magic shell.

If you don't have an ice cream maker, I highly recommend getting one. Put it on your Christmas list. Making ice cream is really fun, creative, cheap, and easy (and in a machine that doesn't require ice and salt...fast). Besides all that it's rewarding and tastes WAY better than the other stuff.