Abby, The Blizzard & Snow Ice Cream

From Brent

Here is Abby at the hospital yesterday. Praise the Lord she is home.
It would be a disaster if she were still stuck at the hospital.

At the hospital, Abby was so sedated with morphine that she would fall asleep every few seconds. I brought her favorite food, cheesy breadsticks, and she would doze off holding one in each hand. Today she traded breadsticks for icicles...


Sami's first snow... she is loving it. Abby today having fun in the snow instead of lying in a hospital bed. Isn't God good?
We are getting HAMMERED with a real deal white out blizzard. I've been out clearing 6 ft drifts from the doorways and heat pumps of our house and our elderly neighbors. It is MISERABLE outside... but it makes for some great SNOW ICE CREAM:

We used to make snow ice cream all the time when I was a kid. Haven't made it ten years.

Recipe: a big bowl of fresh snow (preferably all white, no yellow...), vanilla, half and half or milk; sugar and whatever flavor you want... chocolate/strawberry syrup, a cold cup of strong coffee, peppermint oil, or just plain vanilla.

Put in your flavoring, then just keep stirring and adding half & half until it is the consistency you want. Not too much vanilla... overpowers everything else. Tablespoon of vanilla for a big mixing bowl is plenty.

Instant ice cream in about 2 minutes... served with some fresh hot coffee, and the blizzard outside seems to be worth the trouble.

You can't freeze it! It just turns into an ice chunk, so darn it, you have to eat the WHOLE BOWL when you make it!

SpideyLandis is SERIOUS about his snow ice cream. No messin' around dude...

Abby loved the snow ice cream but honestly, she is in a MORPHINE INDUCED FUNK. She it pretty listless and generally "out of it". But at least she is home with us.
More pics later....