# 25, 26 and 27

I was bored today so after church I went to some grocery stores to gather items so I could spend the hot day in the kitchen. I don't know why I always feel like cooking when it's over 80° out, but I do. So, first up, I made eggless cookie dough. Now, I love cookie dough and my little sis would always get mad at me at Christmas time or whenever she was making cookies b/c I would eat the dough. Now, I cant eat eggs b/c they make me vomit, but when they are in things, I have no problem. I have never gotten sick from eating raw cookie dough (and my eggs are like 3 months old). Anyway, I decided to make eggless cookie dough for ice cream (and to eat straight from the freezer whenever the sweet tooth calls).


Eggless cookie dough: brown sugar, white sugar, butter, soy milk, flour, salt, vanilla extract and chocolate chips. I then froze it while I made vanilla ice cream in my ice cream maker.

Now, I've only made L's minty mint & chip ice cream, so me making vanilla ice cream counts as #26. I pretty much followed the minty mint & chip ice cream recipe but used vanilla extract instead of mint. Half and Half, whipping cream, sugar, dash of salt and vanilla extract. I was a little worried b/c other recipes for vanilla ice cream included other ingredients like lemon juice. After the ice cream maker machine worked it's magic, I had tasty vanilla ice cream that reminded me of In-n-Out's vanilla milk shakes. Oh so yummy. I then removed the canister from the machine and poured the vanilla ice cream into my freezing canister and cut in the frozen cookie dough and stirred before putting the ice cream container into the freezer for the hardening phase.

finished product...oh so yummy!

Since I was already in the kitchen, I decided to make Moroccan Sweet Potato Stew from a Good Housekeeping recipe.

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipefinder/moroccan-sweet-potato-stew


Of course, I didn't have curry powder, so I mixed some Chili powder w/ ground cardamon and garam masala as a substitute. I was able to pick some mint leaves from my garden! I also made quinoa instead of couscous simply b/c I don't have couscous and I'm not really a fan of it.