Grasshopper Ice Cream

A family favorite:

56 Oreos, crushed
1 c chopped pecans
1/2 c melted butter
1/2 gallon mint-chocolate chip ice cream, softened
1/2 gallon mint-brownie chunk ice cream, softened

In a small bowl, combine cookies, butter and pecans. Spread half of the mixture in the bottom of a 9x13 pan.  Top with softened ice cream.  (either mix separately or create 2 layers)  Sprinkle remaining cookie mixture on top.  Drizzle with chocolate syrup if desire.  Freeze until ready to serve.

Obviously, you could use 1 gallon of mint-chocolate chip ice cream also.

O'Henry Bars

A popular recipe around here (and very easy too):

1 cup Karo syrup
1 Cup sugar
1 cup peanuts, salted, unchopped
3 cups Rice Krispies
1 pkg. chocolate chips
1 pkg. butterscotch chips

Stir together Karo syrup and sugar.  Microwave for 2 minutes.  Add peanuts and peanut butter to the Karo mixture.  Microwave everything for 1 more minute.  Add 3 cups of Rice Krispies.  Spread into a greased 9x13 pan.

Combine chocolate chips (on bottom) and butterscotch chips in a bowl and microwave for 1-2 minutes.  Stir until smooth.  Spread over krispie mixture.  Cool in the refrigerator.  Cut into 1: squares.

Snicker Bar Ice Cream

From my free membership @ America's Test Kitchen:

1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened
10 mini peanut butter cups, chopped coarse
10 mini Snickers bars, chopped coarse
1/4 cup heavy cream

1.  Make peanut butter ice cream:  Stir ice cream and peanut butter cups together in a large bowl until combined.  Return to freezer until firm, at least 30 minutes.

2.  Make Snickers Sauce:  Combine Snickers bars and cream in small saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently, until melted into chunky sauce.  Remove from heat.

3.  Serve:  Scoop ice cream into four bowls and spoon warm sauce over it.  Serve.

Frappe

I used to make frappe a lot.  The recipe:  pineapple sherbet, sliced strawberries, sliced bananas.  Freeze and serve over Sprite.  Then when I married Tom, I stopped making it because he doesn't like bananas.

But then I had to make treats for a meeting the other day and had a request to make an ice cream treat.  I've about used up all of my ice cream treats on that group already, so I went back to my roots and did a frappe.  I changed it up a little though.  Also yummy!

2 containers pineapple sherbet
1 container vanilla ice cream
1-2 cups frozen raspberries
1-2 cups frozen blueberries
3-4 quartered then sliced bananas
Stir until it starts to turn pink.  Freeze.  Serve slightly softened over Sprite.

And suddenly as I was stirring, I came up with a non-banana lover solution: remove some before adding the bananas.  Store in a different container.  We're back to being a frappe-loving family.  I'm so excited!

Lasagna

I threw a lasagna together today that ended up being really good.

1 lb. sausage (I had spicy, which was really good, but something else would also work.)
Cook until only a small amount of pink is left.  Add veggies:
1/2 grated onion
1/2 grated red pepper
1 small grated zucchini
(I just sent them all through the salad shooter)
1 tsp minced garlic

Cook together until sausage is no longer pink.  Add:
1 packet spaghetti seasoning
1 can tomato sauce + 1 1/2 cans water
2 sprigs fresh basil, finely chopped

Thicken slightly with a little roux if desired.

Cheese:
1 pt. Ricotta cheese
1 cup mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
2 tsp parsley
2 eggs

Stir together well.

Layer as you would any lasagna ending with sauce.  Top with 1 cup mozzarella and 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Bake @ 400 degrees for 1 hour.  Let sit for 10 minutes before cutting.

Leftovers status:  none.