Erika

Is it possible….have my low carb prayers been answered? Ice cream with no carbs that doesn’t taste like cardboard?

OK here’s how it started, as many of you know my husband is a confirmed ice cream-a-holic. I was flipping through a catalog and found a soft serve ice cream maker. So I ordered it ( found out later I could have gotten it at Target for $50, I paid $60 plus shipping for it in the catalog ) anyway, I get it and when I am flipping through the instructions I find the recipies.

Provided I use Splenda or Sweet-n-Low…there are no carbs!

Even the chocolate ice cream only has 12 carbs for a whole quart! The Gods of ice cream have smiled down on me, and I am elated.

So run, don’t walk, to the gadget section of your local super store….go forth and make ice cream.

Not only is it low/no carb but it’s homemade…that means no partially hydroginated whatevers and other various words I can’t pronounce or spell.  Happy dance in progress!

Ethan is tickled with the thought of soft serve in the kitchen, he’s still walking around in a Devil Dog and Elios’ pizza haze.

You see Ethan grew up in Allentown, on the other side of PA. He was raised on Elios’ frozen pizza and Drake’s Cakes ( an east coast version of Hostess ) He loves that pizza, we found it on vacation one year and he about lost his mind. Until last week they never sold it around here.

I found it in Wal-Mart, I actually gasped and yelled, ” Oh my God! ” when I saw it mixed in with the other frozen pizzas. Some woman looked at me like I was a complete loon, so I explained the signifigance of said pizza while I loaded up the cart with 12 boxes. She said I must be a good wife to get so excited over finding his favorite pizza.

Then I found Ethan’s favorite ice cream on sale for $2.50 a half gallon, it’s normally $6.50 a piece, so I stocked up on that too. Thank God for our chest freezer.

I couldn’t wait to get home and show Ethan, he was so excited I thought he might hyper-ventilate. You have never seen a grown man tear open a box of frozen pizza so fast and have it in the oven in under 3 seconds. It was like Christmas morning for him.

He said the only thing missing was a Drake’s Cake Devil Dog. Basically it looks like an ice cream sandwich, but made with devil’s food cake and cream filling. Like I said, you can’t buy them around here. So I went pecking around the internet and found a web site that will ship them anywhere. I bought a case of them and they arrived yesterday.

So Ethan is in his glory. He said, ” OK, I have my pizza, my ice cream, and my Devil Dogs. Now if I could just figure out how to have sex while eating them simultaniously, I could die a happy man. “