Vegan Ice Cream

Pistachio 3 ripe bananas, sliced and frozen 2 tablespoons almond milk 1 teaspoon matcha powder (optional) 1/4 teaspoon almond extract (optional) 1/3 cup chopped shelled and pistachios, 1 tablespoon reserved for garnish Place the bananas, almond milk, matcha powder, and almond extract into the food processor. Blend until smooth. Add the pistachios and pulse until they are well incorporated. Serve immediately for a soft-serve consistency or freeze for 30 minutes for a firmer texture. Enjoy!

Vegan Salted Caramel Vegan Caramel Sauce: 1 cup full fat coconut milk 1/2 cup coconut sugar Combine the coconut milk and coconut sugar in a pot and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook the caramel until it is a dark brown and thickens up. Allow the caramel sauce to cool completely before making “nice cream”.

Salted Caramel Ice cream: 3 ripe bananas, sliced and frozen 2 tablespoons almond milk 3 tablespoon vegan caramel sauce 1 pinch flaky sea salt Place the bananas, almond milk, caramel sauce and sea salt into a food processor. Blend until smooth. Serve immediately for a soft-serve consistency or freeze for 30 minutes for a firmer texture. Enjoy!

Chunky Monkey 3 ripe bananas, sliced and frozen 2 tablespoons almond milk 1 tablespoon cocoa powder 2 tablespoons chopped vegan dark chocolate 2 tablespoons chopped salted peanuts 1 tablespoon chopped banana chips Place the bananas, almond milk and cocoa powder into the food processor and blend until smooth. Add the chocolate, peanuts and banana chips and pulse until they are well incorporated. Serve immediately for a soft-serve consistency or freeze for 30 minutes for a firmer texture. Enjoy!

Place the bananas, almond milk and cocoa powder into the food processor and blend until smooth. Add the chocolate, peanuts and banana chips and pulse until they are well incorporated. Serve immediately for a soft-serve consistency or freeze for 30 minutes for a firmer texture. Enjoy!

Mint Cookies & Cream 3 ripe bananas, sliced and frozen 2 tablespoons almond milk 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract or 4 mint leaves Green food colouring (optional) 3 oreos, chopped Place the bananas, almond milk, peppermint extract and green food colouring into the food processor. Blend until smooth. Add the oreos and pulse until they are well incorporated. Serve immediately for a soft-serve consistency or freeze for 30 minutes for a firmer texture. Enjoy!

Vanilla Berry Bliss 3 ripe bananas, sliced and frozen 2 tablespoons almond milk 1/2 cup frozen mixed berries 1/2 vanilla bean Place the bananas and almond milk into the food processor and blend until smooth. Add the mixed berries and seeds from the vanilla bean. Pulse the mixture until the berries begin to break down. Serve immediately for a soft-serve consistency or freeze for 30 minutes for a firmer texture. Enjoy!

Phone eats First

As a food blogger, my phone always eats first, right? Well… not in this case. This is the only picture of my absolutely amazing salad from McAllister’s. The freshly tossed salad simply looked too delicious for me to wait and snap a picture. The Garden Salad consists of lightly grilled chicken laying on a bed of fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers. And what is a salad without croutons?

Of course, l had to remember to ask the waiter for no cheese. That was my first salad without eating cheese, and to be quite honest it was weird at first. Then after I got a few bites in, the next thing I knew it was gone.

Ice cream

Finding dairy-free ice cream has been slightly challenging; however, I have composed a list of ice cream for you to try. My favorite brand of dairy-free ice cream is So Delicious. On their site, (link below) So Delicious categorizes their ice cream by base which makes it very easy to find the kind of ice cream you most prefer. So far I have found cashew milk to be the most pleasing to my taste buds. I personally despise coconuts, so coconut milk based ice cream tastes disgusting to me. A lot of brands only use coconut milk as their base for the ice cream because of the coconut's increasing popularity; therefore, it's harder for me to find dairy free ice cream that I like. Below are my favorite dairy-free ice creams and a few other flavors that I won't try because of the coconut base.

• So Delicious Salted Caramel Cluster

• So Delicious Mint Chip

• So Delicious Chocolate Velvet

• Häagen-Dazs Chocolate Salted Fudge Truffle

• Halo Top Oatmeal Cookie

• Ben & Jerry’s PB & Cookies

• Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey

• Talenti Roman Raspberry Sorbetto

• Talenti Cold Brew Sorbetto

NOTE: the base is VERY important. 

My favorite and my least favorite of So Delicious