This weekend was rough. Like, REALLY rough. You know how you never want to be “that” girl at the bar? I was. I was “that crying” girl at the bar. I hate having emotions. And I hate toying with them while consuming alcoholic beverages. It’s just a terrible idea. Grumpy Juli sucks already, but grumpy drunk Juli is just a straight up b*tch. I learned my lesson this weekend. Don’t day drink. Just workout instead. That was all I really even thought about at the bar anyways. Barbells. I just thought about barbells.
Don’t give me a lecture here. I know.
But no need to live in non fun Juli land. Let’s talk about what was super fun over the weekend. Our CrossFit gym put on our first ever Amazing Race. Yes, like the show. So this is how it looked. We took their keys, their cell phones, and their dignity and sent them on their way around Denver. They had to find their own way on a 13 mile trek without any means of transportation. Meaning they had the choice to either run or hitch hike. Hitch hikers did much better than the runners. The teams had to make human pyramids with strangers, which meant mostly bums. They had to had to eat sandwiches with yeast spread on them. Paleo eaters loved that. And they had to do burpees in a fountain. Among other weird things. The coolest part of it all though…team PaleOMG WON IT ALL!! No big deal. I love my gym. Seriously, I love it.
I have a sunburn that makes me look like I’m still wearing a swimsuit…while naked.
I freaking love the movie Slumbdog Millionaire.
Oh, I should probably talk about this recipe. It’s not super original. But I don’t have an ice cream maker so I gotta do what I gotta do to get my fix. So ice cream made from a frozen banana was where it was at. If I would have had toasted pecans and was eating nuts, I would have added those to this little soft serve masterpiece. It’s not a masterpiece, I won’t lie. But it tastes delicious.
Maple Cinnamon Soft Serve Ice Cream
- Yield: 1 1x
Ingredients
- 1 banana, peeled and put in freezer until frozen
- 1–2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon sunbutter (or nut butter of choice)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- splash of coconut or almond milk
- toasted pecans (optional)
Instructions
- Freeze your banana ahead of time or this recipe just won’t workout. I like to peel my banana before freezing it because it’s kind of hell trying to peel a frozen banana.
- Place banana and the rest of your ingredients into a food processor.
- Puree until smooth. Top with toasted pecans or whatever else you would like.
- Eat with a spoon. It works better than a fork.
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This looks awesome. I unfortunately have a crappy blender and I can’t blend my frozen bananas well enough to get a good consistency. I never thought to use my food processor! Duh! Thanks!
Just whizzed it up after dinner – bloody delicious!
I love making ice cream like that also. I add way more coconut milk and throw in protein powder so I feel “healthy” about it.
And about the sad stuff… Know what? Chicken butt.
I just read one of your blogs from the 4th about how alcohol is stupid. =]
Love this recipe! Every morning after a WOD, I do half an avo, frozen mixed berries, a nana, frozen pineapple, Progenex More Muscle and or Recovery, with Almond milk! All with my Magic Bullet blender. It’s amazing. It’s my ice cream fix.
I made extra and froze the balance.. its hard as rock now! But I will chip through it! This will be my after swim snack! Thanks!
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That’s cool that you used a food processor to do this–this machine makes THE BEST “ice cream”, (which is really just a frozen banana). Plus it gets really good if you put chocolate or berries or other frozen fruit with it.
This looks really good, can’t wait to try it!
Sorry you had a bad weekend. We’ve all been that girl. Hey, I’ve even been the bummed out girl thinking about barbells. No worries. This week will be better. Hope things clear up! In the meantime…there is always paleo softserve…
yum yum and hooray for races and tan(burn)lines! When I was small I had an American flag swimsuit…I got tan through the stars so had tan stars all over my body…now whenever I’m in the sun, I try to sneakily get shape tans. It always cheers me up whenever I have one. Moral of the story: get a shape tan (flowers and stars and hearts work well) so that when you’re at bars you can look at it and smile. Yay!
Nice one. Hey JB are you telling me that you only have 3 friends?? I thought we were gonna get guest posts on Fridays? Btw lemon tart was fabulous, but today I am going to meld the tart and the Caramel Pecan Bars together. One part lemon filling, one part cookie crust. Will let you know the outcome 🙂
This looks awesome, and as always, love your posts! I never thought to add maple syrup to frozen banana’s. Amazing how many concoctions you can come up with a simple frozen banana.