Food on Fridays: Dreamy Chocolate Ice Cream

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Food on Fridays with Ann

I called for help, and several of you responded with ice cream recipes capable of making a grown man cry!

My brother offered to make vanilla ice cream for my son’s birthday party, so I decided to make chocolate, using Lisa’s recipe from Extraordinary Life.

Look how simple it is to make:

Chocolate Ice Cream

2 cups Heavy Cream
1 cup Milk
2/3 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder

I was a little nervous. I’d never before operated an ice cream maker, but my brother walked us through it.

Basically we threw all the ingredients in a bowl, mixed it up and poured it into the ice cream maker. The guys manhandled the bags of ice and rock salt.

We didn’t keep track of the time, but I think ours whirred for at least an hour before slowing down. My brother’s machine stopped earlier.

Next time I make it, I’ll double the recipe. You can see in the next photo that it made a modest amount, though plenty for our gathering.

Our chocolate firmed up much more than my brother’s vanilla, but he made a big amount. Rich and delicious, the vanilla remained the consistency of soft-serve ice cream.

Both were outstanding, but if I were going to make ice cream for a party, I’d make the chocolate. Because, you see, I asked for a recipe that would make a grown man cry.

But as it turned out, I ended up being the one to swipe away a tear or two.

Homemade chocolate ice cream.

Dreamy.

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Consolidating

Slowing down is easier when we simplify.

One way to simplify is to consolidate.

Several of you have noticed that I recently switched my personal/author website from free WordPress to a self-hosted blog.

One reason I did this was to consolidate two sites into one—copying the Not So Fast material over here to this cozy new online home. You’ll find the main pages from NotSoFastBook.com organized under a “Not So Fast” navigational button (see above, clicking on the words “Not So Fast” to see the main page or following the drop-down options to visit sub-pages).

From this point forward, any new posts I compose about slowing down in this fast-paced world will be published right here at annkroeker.writer., organized under the “Not So Fast” category. Eventually I’ll copy over all the posts from the NotSoFastBook.wordpress.com site—also categorizing them under “Not So Fast” for easy sorting.

I welcome those readers who have only subscribed to Not So Fast. You all have tolerated my dry spells with grace. Thank you for your kindness, and I hope you feel at home here.

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Food on Fridays: Tomatoes and Cheese (lots of cheese)

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The Speed of a Good Samaritan

In Not So Fast, I wrote a chapter about slowing down enough to care, wondering if we’re going so fast that we struggle to show compassion, speeding right past people in need.

In it, I reflected on a famous study done in the 1970s in which seminary students who volunteered to participate were divided into groups that were put in a low-, medium- or high-hurry situation. Continue reading

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Slowing Down, Speaking Less

At Jesus Community, Ted M. Gossard has been writing about slowing down.

In his post “the goal of slowing down (in my case),” Ted said that his life has been full of words, that they spill out of him easily…sometimes too easily. He wrote:

Lately valuing silence more (or really at all) means I tend to be more silent. Less words. The goal is not to diminish and belittle the importance of words…The goal is to realize the goal stated in the Book: to know God better, to be in closer communion with God and with those in Jesus, as well as to share this love with all people.

To achieve his biblical goals of knowing and loving God and knowing and loving people, Ted is slowing down his words…speaking less…falling silent. Continue reading

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Too Familiar?

We’ve been hosting two people from Belgium—a mom and daughter—who are friends of the Belgian Wonder’s family. The daughter needed all the “stuff” for her first year of college in America, so we were driving them to “stuff” stores like Target, Wal-Mart and Kohl’s.

But both she and her mom needed some non-”stuff” things, as well, like glasses and contacts. So I drove both of them to my optometrist, a pleasant doctor who asks about family and summer activities before launching the exam. Continue reading

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Food on Fridays: Homemade Ice Cream Help

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Knee Prints

There’s a lady at our church who has a voice as soft and soothing as flannel. She prays so regularly, she seems radiant from God’s glory. In fact, I feel from her an almost palpable peace flowing from the Holy Spirit with whom she interacts so faithfully and intimately.

Just being around her makes me want to pray more. Some days I am so moved by her humble spirit and Christ-glorifying speech, I want to cry. Continue reading

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Food on Fridays: Organic Evening

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Missing Rich

My son just discovered the music of fellow Hoosier Rich Mullins.

We have a tribute CD that includes “Awesome God,” “Hold Me, Jesus,” and “Elijah,” among others, and my son has been playing it nonstop. In fact, the first thing he does upon waking up is flip on the stereo and press play to start off the day with “Awesome God.” He loves that particular song so much, he’ll often stop the CD somewhere in the middle of another song and restart the whole thing to hear “Awesome God” yet again. I didn’t keep an exact count, but a couple of days ago I’m sure we heard just that one song at least 15 times in a row. The girls get a little tired of it, but I honestly don’t mind. Continue reading

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