Ice cream cones

At some point, when making homemade ice cream you might want to serve it in an ice cream cone, not just in a bowl. So homemade ice cream cones are a good choice to match the homemade ice cream ๐Ÿ™‚

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To make the cones I use a special appliance

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and the classic recipe that is in the manual

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I keep them in an airtight container to maintain them crisp and use as needed.

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Ice cream everyday

We love ice cream, being summer or winter, sweet or sour, all kind, all day ๐Ÿ™‚

I used to buy lots of ice creams, but the so called natural is extremely expensive, and the ones in the market shops are full of chemicals, so I decided to make my own.

I started with an ice cream machine that uses a ball that you keep in the freezer for 24 hours than you can use it to make the ice cream, but the bowl broke after few uses and the other machine that I bought after was at no good, it just did not manage to freeze the ice cream mixture. So I started to make ice cream the classic way, putting the mixture in lolly trays in the freezer or in a bigger container, but this way the ice cream got too frozen and full of ice.

So I decided to make a little investment and buy myself an automatic ice cream machine that uses a compressor to freeze the ice cream in about 30 minutes.

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Now we eat ice cream every day ๐Ÿ™‚

The recipe I use is simple, just mix together: fruits, milk and cream and sometime a bit of sugar if the fruits are too sour.

Strawberries ice cream

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Sweet cherries ice cream

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Almond ice cream (instead of fruits I put almond flour)

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The options are limitless ๐Ÿ™‚

Summer vacation Journal

To keep my child a bit busy during this summer vacation I decided to make a Journal where she can write down impressions from places where we go together. Nothing complicated, just a funny activity for the summer days.

I made a template (Romanian and English) so you can print it if you like it ๐Ÿ™‚

Just click on the picture to open the large file and save it.

Happy Summer Vacation !

Roses

I just love roses, simple, double, wild, colorful and joyful view. Last weekend I managed to get to a nice event hosted by “Staศ›iunea de Cercetฤƒri Horticole – USAMV Cluj-Napoca“.

I don’t have enough word to describe their beauty so I’ll just put some pictures ๐Ÿ™‚

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The chicks

I know I have not been saying anything for a while, but I was busy with lots of things ๐Ÿ™‚ In the meantime I managed to relocate all my chicks to their new home and I was surprised how well they are getting along, the big ones with the small ones.

They are all so pretty and the Silkies are so friendly.

Here are some of them, I just could not picture them all ๐Ÿ™‚ ans some of them just wanted to be pictured fore more than once ๐Ÿ™‚

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Ameraucanas

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Ayam cemani

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And of course, my beloved Pippin ๐Ÿ™‚

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