A banana soft serve "ice cream" announcement

ashley · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 12:06 pm

vijita wrote:

I was thinking the other day that it would be funny if a humorous cookbook was published entitled "The Worst Ideas Ever from Healthy Living Bloggers". I can already think of at least 20 inclusions off the top of my head. Waaaaay more if I spent the time to peruse the blogs I read because they entertain me with their awfulness.

I want to nominate black bean brownies for that cookbook. Anyone who says they're just as good is lying or has never eaten a brownie before.

littlebird · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 12:10 pm

you know what is good though? thick coconut cream and frozen chunks of mango blended together. it is really similar to the soft-serve frozen yogurt at some places.

ameyfm · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 12:47 pm

i love this thread. and I agree.

ameyfm · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 12:48 pm

vijita wrote:

Also, please don't put stevia in anything and tell me it's delicious.

I was thinking the other day that it would be funny if a humorous cookbook was published entitled "The Worst Ideas Ever from Healthy Living Bloggers". I can already think of at least 20 inclusions off the top of my head. Waaaaay more if I spent the time to peruse the blogs I read because they entertain me with their awfulness.

this is a great idea. Some of those blogs are just insane.

kilgore trout · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 12:55 pm

It's true! And I say this as a person who loves banana "ice cream." It's super tasty, but it's not "just like" ice cream. More like a creamy-ish sorbet, I guess.

solipsistnation · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 1:09 pm

ashley wrote:

vijita wrote:

I was thinking the other day that it would be funny if a humorous cookbook was published entitled "The Worst Ideas Ever from Healthy Living Bloggers". I can already think of at least 20 inclusions off the top of my head. Waaaaay more if I spent the time to peruse the blogs I read because they entertain me with their awfulness.

I want to nominate black bean brownies for that cookbook. Anyone who says they're just as good is lying or has never eaten a brownie before.

Perhaps they had previously only eaten carob brownies.

pandacookie · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 2:14 pm

vijita wrote:

I was thinking the other day that it would be funny if a humorous cookbook was published entitled "The Worst Ideas Ever from Healthy Living Bloggers". I can already think of at least 20 inclusions off the top of my head. Waaaaay more if I spent the time to peruse the blogs I read because they entertain me with their awfulness.

Or perhaps a zine.

GreenDuck · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:08 pm **Posts:** 813

I've never had anyone try to convince me that blended frozen bananas taste just like anything. All I remember is that my aunt used to make it in the summer and I thought it was great.

I suppose I don't read health blogs though.

torque · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 3:12 pm

my omega juicer and i are here covering our ears and not listening to what you're saying.
(we don't have vegan ice cream though so we gotta do what we gotta do-- also, put some vanilla in that shiitake!! it helps.)

joyfulgirl · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 3:29 pm

I was also totally disappointed when I first tried the banana ice cream. It's delicious but it's not ice cream. But if you mix in chocolate and peanut butter and shove it into a cone, it's amazing.

Kiersten · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 4:52 pm

Agreed. If I'm craving ice cream give me the real thing covered in chocolate and other sugary crepe. Screw the bananas.

strawberryrock · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:15 pm **Posts:** 1672

Banana soft serve with peanut butter and cocoa and vanilla in it is pretty amazing.

But no it doesn't taste the same as actual soft serve.

VanillaDoe · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 5:42 pm

It's been so long since I've had real soft serve, but I suppose it obviously doesnt taste like creamy/milky vanillary-ness.
However it is delicious enough for me to eat it everyday for breakfast.
I've no bad words against it.

EmperorTomatoKetchup · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 5:47 pm

VanillaDoe wrote:

It's been so long since I've had real soft serve, but I suppose it obviously doesnt taste like creamy/milky vanillary-ness.
However it is delicious enough for me to eat it everyday for breakfast.

ooh, that sounds great for a hot summer's day!

kimba · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:44 pm **Posts:** 1921

Tofulish wrote:

mrsbadmouth wrote:

Tofulish wrote:

But the nice thing about banana ice-cream is that you can eat it while pregnant. Soft serve from the machines is basically a yucky listeria risk thanks to the bacteria living in the machines. http://www.livestrong.com/article/13484 ... pregnancy/

Another thing to add to the 'thank god i'm vegan' list.

Totally. Sadly though, even if you have vegan soft-serve on a machine shared with dairy soft-serve, you still have the listeria risk.

Which is not the case with banana ice-cream! YAY banana ice-cream! Mmmmmm delicious and listeria-free

I'm kind of glad I didn't know this when I was pregnant! I quite enjoyed a lot of soft serve during my pregnancy.

bekki · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 6:41 pm

torque wrote:

my omega juicer and i are here covering our ears and not listening to what you're saying.
(we don't have vegan ice cream though so we gotta do what we gotta do-- also, put some vanilla in that shiitake!! it helps.)

Are ice cream makers in your price range there? I got my double Cuisinart at Goodwill for $8 (I think) and I love it to bits. I even live in an area where I can find most types of vegan ice cream but just make my own because it's so expensive in the stores. Tonight I made cake batter ice cream and it turned out amazing.

LazySmurf wrote:

I once tried a raw recipe that had this whole long intro saying "you are not going to believe it but everyone is totally shocked when they try it but they can't get enough.

"it's crazy but these agave marinated Jicama sticks taste exactly like McDonald's French fries"

What's really crazy is that I tried it. Not only did the weird raw marinated sticks taste nothing even remotely like French fries (maybe they kind of looked like fries that sat around in water) but they were gross and I wasted some perfectly good ingrediants. I am a chump.

That was many years ago and probably the reason I still haven't tried banana soft serve so thanks for confirming my suspicions.

This made me laugh so hard because that just sounds so gross. I've never tried black bean brownies, either. I keep wanting to but there has always been a voice in my head warning me against it. I thought it was because that voice only ever wanted Sweet Pea brownies, but now I see that it is just wise.

SassyOh · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 7:02 pm

LazySmurf wrote:

I once tried a raw recipe that had this whole long intro saying "you are not going to believe it but everyone is totally shocked when they try it but they can't get enough.

"it's crazy but these agave marinated Jicama sticks taste exactly like McDonald's French fries"

What's really crazy is that I tried it. Not only did the weird raw marinated sticks taste nothing even remotely like French fries (maybe they kind of looked like fries that sat around in water) but they were gross and I wasted some perfectly good ingrediants. I am a chump.

That was many years ago and probably the reason I still haven't tried banana soft serve so thanks for confirming my suspicions.

I made some jicama 'fries' that were rolled in spices and dehydrated, and they were really good, but by no means were they fries. They were spiced jicama, nothing more! I've eaten some raw vegan recipes that are amazingly like the 'real thing'--the raw vegan Ding Dong comes to mind, and the sunflower 'taco meat'--but seriously, some of those food bloggers are cracked out and say stupid shiitake like "better than the real thing!"

supercarrot · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 9:20 pm

ijustdiedinside wrote:

i'm all for junk food, but have you had banana softserve made in a champion juicer? maybe it doesn't taste JUST like softserve, but it's totally got the right consistency. in a food processor? no way.

absolutely. if you don't use overripe bananas and eat it as soon as it comes out of the juicer, it's not overwhelmingly banana-y at all! and i do think it's very ice creamy. it's awesome!

lilyyw · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 12:11 pm

Agreed. However, this thread still prompted me to put a banana in the freezer for making "ice cream" later.

By the way, thank you, Isa, for not claiming that mashed cauliflower tastes "just like" mashed potatoes or that pureed sunflower seeds/carrots/onions tastes "just like" cheese sauce.

Mihl · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:58 pm **Posts:** 984

Thank God for this thread!

ashley wrote:

vijita wrote:

I was thinking the other day that it would be funny if a humorous cookbook was published entitled "The Worst Ideas Ever from Healthy Living Bloggers". I can already think of at least 20 inclusions off the top of my head. Waaaaay more if I spent the time to peruse the blogs I read because they entertain me with their awfulness.

I want to nominate black bean brownies for that cookbook. Anyone who says they're just as good is lying or has never eaten a brownie before.

I think it depends. There are some really awful bean brownie recipes out there. But I recently made one that tasted really fantastic. Probably because it was made with a lot of good chocolate and not cocoa. And no one omitted the fat.

Adam Crisis · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 1:01 pm

you people are all wrong.

and youre all horrible people too.

have you added peanut butter and some soymilk maybe?

ashley · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 8:56 pm

Mihl wrote:

Thank God for this thread!

ashley wrote:

vijita wrote:

I was thinking the other day that it would be funny if a humorous cookbook was published entitled "The Worst Ideas Ever from Healthy Living Bloggers". I can already think of at least 20 inclusions off the top of my head. Waaaaay more if I spent the time to peruse the blogs I read because they entertain me with their awfulness.

I want to nominate black bean brownies for that cookbook. Anyone who says they're just as good is lying or has never eaten a brownie before.

I think it depends. There are some really awful bean brownie recipes out there. But I recently made one that tasted really fantastic. Probably because it was made with a lot of good chocolate and not cocoa. And no one omitted the fat.

What recipe did you use? I'm totally skeptical because the ones I made were awful (Happy Herbivore or something?), but I think they were indeed fat free. I don't know. It was a long time ago, and the experience was so bad I've tried to erase it from my memory. I'd be willing to try again.

For the record, I love banana soft serve and eat it all the time. A little bit of cocoa and vanilla almond milk makes a really delicious treat. It's more of a thick/decadent smoothie than ice cream, though.

mrsbadmouth · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 8:57 pm

Celine has a black bean brownie recipe. I decided to wing one once into a mug brownie, Brian and I ate them and they were okay, but they smelled like beans and that was kind of a turn off.

erynne936 · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 9:09 pm

strawberryrock wrote:

Banana soft serve with peanut butter and cocoa and vanilla in it is pretty amazing.

But no it doesn't taste the same as actual soft serve.

YES. I make this thinned with a little almond milk and drink it in shake form regularly for breakfast in the summer.

ashley · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 9:19 pm

I just don't get the point of putting beans in brownies. I like beans, so I think I'd rather just eat my beans. And then have a real brownie if I deem it necessary. It seems like a waste of good ingredients to end up with something that's just okay.

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