Don't worry folks, I am posting this with plenty of time for you to make it for your Easter lunch, why, you might already have these ingredients at home!
This is what you need to make this exceptionally good dessert..
4 Medium sized RIPE but not too ripe bananas.
3 x 175g pots of MullerLight Toffee Yoghurt (we love this stuff).
4 tbsp of sweetner.
2 drops of Peppermint extract.
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh mint leaves.
2 drops of green food colouring.
2 level tbsp of dark chocolate chips (of course you've got these, you just need to find them)
How to make it..
Peel and slice the bananas into 2cm thick pieces.
Put them into a freezer proof box with the lid on.
Freeze for 3-4 hours.
Once frozen, put the bananas into a food processor with:
The yoghurt, sweetener, peppermint extract, mint leaves & food colouring.
Whizz for 2-3 minutes till smooth.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Return to the freezer box, put on the lid.
Put into the freezer until ready to serve.
Oh, it is the prettiest of ice creams and WHO doesn't like mint or chocolate and together, they're a marriage made in culinary heaven!
Well, today is reasonably bright but not very warm. I suppose you could call it an 'English Spring' day, on days like this, especially at Easter time, she tries not to think of her garden in Spain in the 70's.. the light and the warmth. She thinks it is the light she misses the most. She would have been gardening every day and lovely things would have been growing and being eaten.. oi vey.
She hasn't been back since she sold the house in 1978, the man who bought it sold off the land, keeping only a metre or two beyond the swimming pool and according to an old friend who visits her friends in the next door village, there are now four houses on the ground where she grew the fruit and vegetables which fed her family and two others.
It is a good thing that Juan Antonio is not alive to see this. The very dearest of dear men, they 'broke' their backs together making the terraces and raised beds on the sloping part of the land. He pruned the citrus trees, took care of the olives and kept an eye on Hugo (her father had had a stroke in 1972 which paralysed his right side. Between James, an ex-army nurse and JA, he regained the use of his leg and his hand).
Ah well.. everything has changed in many of the places that she knew and loved. The people who've just sold Bishopsdale (where she lived as a young teenager) put a conservatory onto the side of the house, which is Tudor, very early Tudor.. words failed her when she was told that.. and they dug up the camomile lawn and made a gravel drive..
She has to do stuff.. I think it's called tiding up.. aka house work. So I am off out of reach of that duster and going onto pole for a doze.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 25th, 2016.
This is what you need to make this exceptionally good dessert..
4 Medium sized RIPE but not too ripe bananas.
3 x 175g pots of MullerLight Toffee Yoghurt (we love this stuff).
4 tbsp of sweetner.
2 drops of Peppermint extract.
1 tbsp finely chopped fresh mint leaves.
2 drops of green food colouring.
2 level tbsp of dark chocolate chips (of course you've got these, you just need to find them)
How to make it..
Peel and slice the bananas into 2cm thick pieces.
Put them into a freezer proof box with the lid on.
Freeze for 3-4 hours.
Once frozen, put the bananas into a food processor with:
The yoghurt, sweetener, peppermint extract, mint leaves & food colouring.
Whizz for 2-3 minutes till smooth.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Return to the freezer box, put on the lid.
Put into the freezer until ready to serve.
Oh, it is the prettiest of ice creams and WHO doesn't like mint or chocolate and together, they're a marriage made in culinary heaven!
Well, today is reasonably bright but not very warm. I suppose you could call it an 'English Spring' day, on days like this, especially at Easter time, she tries not to think of her garden in Spain in the 70's.. the light and the warmth. She thinks it is the light she misses the most. She would have been gardening every day and lovely things would have been growing and being eaten.. oi vey.
She hasn't been back since she sold the house in 1978, the man who bought it sold off the land, keeping only a metre or two beyond the swimming pool and according to an old friend who visits her friends in the next door village, there are now four houses on the ground where she grew the fruit and vegetables which fed her family and two others.
It is a good thing that Juan Antonio is not alive to see this. The very dearest of dear men, they 'broke' their backs together making the terraces and raised beds on the sloping part of the land. He pruned the citrus trees, took care of the olives and kept an eye on Hugo (her father had had a stroke in 1972 which paralysed his right side. Between James, an ex-army nurse and JA, he regained the use of his leg and his hand).
Ah well.. everything has changed in many of the places that she knew and loved. The people who've just sold Bishopsdale (where she lived as a young teenager) put a conservatory onto the side of the house, which is Tudor, very early Tudor.. words failed her when she was told that.. and they dug up the camomile lawn and made a gravel drive..
She has to do stuff.. I think it's called tiding up.. aka house work. So I am off out of reach of that duster and going onto pole for a doze.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 25th, 2016.
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