New Use for Old Dressing

Here is a new use for that homemade poppy seed dressing. Mix one cup poppy seed dressing with a half a cup of mayo. Stir in with a bag of coleslaw mix (or do like me and shred your own cabbage and carrots). It is better than any cole slaw your are going to get at the deli!

Menu Plan Monday 3/16/09

Here's this week's menu! I have two meals that have cabbage in them. Can one beat 15 cents a pound? Well, actually, I could. One store had it for 1 cent a pound (maximum of 15 lbs) at this price but I didn't want to go there because the other store I commonly shop at had 3 pound bags of frozen chicken breasts for 4.99 a bag. And I always go to Aldi. I like to keep it to two stores on shopping day, especially when I have kids with me.

Monday: Teriyaki Chicken, Brown Rice, & Green Salad
Tuesday: Grilled Steaks, Easy Grilled Potatoes, & Coleslaw
Wednesday: Moo Shu Pork over Noodles, Egg Drop Soup
Thursday: Mini Meatloaves, Au Gratin Potatoes, Garlicky Green Beans
Friday: Homemade Supreme Pizza

Coconut Ice Cream

I've been having lots of fun dreaming up ice cream flavors to make in our new ice cream maker (recently purchased off of Craigslist). While eating a sundae of caramel ice cream topped with Girl Scout Caramel deLites, I decided that a coconut ice cream was the way to go. I looked on-line to find recipes but didn't find one that suited my pantry list. So, I decided to make up my own (boy, am I brave!) coconut ice cream recipe. Let me tell you, it was da bomb! Yea baby! I highly recommend using that chocolate magic shell topping - it would be like eating a frozen Mounds ice cream bar...mmmmmm.

Coconut Ice Cream

1 can coconut milk
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup half and half
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Stir these ingredients together and pour into your ice cream maker (per manufactur's instructions).

Toast 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes (you must toast them, it really brings out the nutty sweet flavor of them). Add to the ice cream mixture 10 minutes after it has begun.

When the ice cream maker is finished, spoon the ice cream into an air tight container and store in the freezer. It is good to let this set-up a little more, so try to give it at least 4 hours in the freezer before you dig in. Enjoy!