Miles run: 13.1
Miles swum: 1/2
Miles biked: 15
(At this rate, I'm never going to make 112 miles by the end of February, so if you have any ideas about how to tick off the miles more quickly on a stationary bike, let me know!)
Of course, the true athletic superstar is Jason, who ran 31 miles this past week. Way to go!
This week's cooking challenge is to use butternut squash in a dessert. Given our family's love affair with gelato, we decided to mesh this favorite veggie with ice cream.
Our recipe was quite simple: we combined our classic sweet cream ice cream recipe with 1 cup of pureed butternut squash, sweetened with a touch of brown sugar and our favorite spices. The girls had fun helping us churn the ice cream during our family home evening.
Talia gives us an impatient look. Waiting may be hard, but homemade ice cream is definitely worth it.
The end result: yum! Our creation tasted an awful lot like pumpkin ice cream, which is awfully wonderful if you are a pumpkin afficionado like myself.
In retrospect, I wish I had pureed the squash in our blender instead of with the hand blender. Not only would this have given us a smoother, creamier texture, but our hand blender literally fried itself while tackling the squash. A flash of light, some sudden smoke, and only the terrible smell of burning plastic remained. So sad!
4 comments:
Looks like a fun recipe to try. I'd like to get your basic sweet cream recipe sometime, along with what exactly you added for this one. We always made ours up, and it was different every time.
I'm so sad about your hand blender! This sounds wonderful though. If you do the "rolling hills" version on the stationary bike, it goes faster. No idea why.
Justin and Brianna combine their "miles" so maybe that would work for you two, also. I remember a few of my hand mixers dying in like fashion and I can remember that smell. The ice cream sounds and looks good!
Thanks for participating in the challenge this week. I am a bit behind but am writing up the post now! Great job!!
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