Sunday, June 28, 2009

Homemade Rocky Road Ice Cream

Here is the homemade rocky rode ice cream we made.

2 1/2 cups of milk
2 1/4 cups of sugar
2 1/2 cups of half and half
5 cups of whipping cream
1 3/4 cups chocolate chips
7 1/2 squares (1 oz. each) semisweet chocolate
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
1 3/4 cups of chopped pecans

Combine milk and semisweet chocolate in saucepan. Stirring constantly, cook over medium heat until chocolate is melted. Remove from heat. Add sugar and salt. Stir until dissolved. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. After refrigerating we put mixture in our ice cream mixer and mix for about 45 minutes to an hour with rock salt and ice around the out side of the can. Then we will freeze it so it can set up.

Enjoy!

Ben

Bread Machine Wheat Bread Recipe

While visiting in Texas, Mom and Dad just loved the wheat bread we made in our bread machine. So, I am posting a recipe for them to use later.

Wheat Bread:
  • 1 1/3 cup of warm water
  • 2 tablespoons of butter softened
  • 3 tablespoons of honey
  • 1 1/2 cups of bread flour
  • 1 1/3 cups of whole wheat bread flour (we grind our own)
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of dry yeast
  • 1/2 cup of flax seeds
  • 1/2 cup of sunflower seeds

Put the ingredients in the bread machine in the order listed. Make a divot in the in the dry ingreadients to put the yeast in. This will keep it from activating until it is mixed together. Here are our settings on the bread machine for the bread.
  • Pre-heat - 30 minutes
  • Knead - 25 minutes
  • Rise 1 - 1 hour
  • Rise 2 - 30 minutes
  • Rise 3 - Off
  • Bake - 1 hour and 2 minutes
  • Keep warm - Off

I hop you enjoy!

Ben

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day Dad Burbank! (Grandpa Fenton too, if you read this.) We hope you had a great one.