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So I impulsively bought some popsicle molds the other day. I had all this fruit in the fridge and on the shelves and in the freezer that I knew I was never going to eat, and I had already eaten pie 2 days in a row, and quite frankly, watching all this fruit just lay around was really stressing me out.
I had some bananas, some frozen blueberries, and a tray of strawberries. I was like, oh duh, I’ll just make these popsicles.
First I pureed the fruit with a hand blender. I drizzled a little sweetened condensed milk in with all the fruit.
For fun, I added some bee pollen in with the banana mix.
Is bee pollen good even for you? I wondered briefly.
This website says NO. If you have allergies, you can die, and if you’re trying to cure yourself from diseases, maybe try taking some medicine, instead of messing with this hippy shit.
This website says YES. The benefits being weight-loss, prostate care, PMS relief, better sex life, the list really goes on…
Who cares really, it’s really weird and tastes magical, and that’s good enough for me.
So, after everything was pureed, I loaded the popsicle molds and put them in the freezer.
And there they sat overnight.
This morning when I woke up, all I could think about was, oh boy! Time to eat a popsicle! I ran one of them under warm water…
And then I popped it out and ate the shit out of it!!
It was SO GOOD!! Especially because of the real fruit aspect of it. And the sweetened condensed milk flavor really saved it from being a boring fruit pop.
So after I finished my popsicle and washed out the mold, I looked back in the freezer and looked at the lonely spot where the popsicle I ate once was. I felt terrible for it for some reason, so I immediately filled the mold back up with something, anything that I could find, you know.
This Vitaminka juice is my jam!! Any variety! This kind is carrot, banana, and apple flavor. I filled up the popsicle mold with it and stuck it back in the freezer. After it froze I ate it. This is a good popsicle too! (Albeit, much healthier tasting.) Summer just got a lot more WINTY.
I’ll be the first to admit that I am a pretty timid baker. I’m terrible at measuring things, I don’t like to measure, I don’t have the patience to wait for things to rise, I mix things poorly, I set timers and forget about them, etc… But boy oh boy, do I love to eat pie!!
And then, Peter Van Hyning opened up my eyes to the world of ready made pie crusts. I’ve been using this kind:
Much to my happiness, all I had to do was:
- preheat the oven (I set mine at 400 because it runs a little hot, but I think the instructions call for 450)
- unroll one of these bad boys onto a pie tin
- load it up with some fruit (I used RHUBARB for this pie)
- sprinkle some sugar and flour on top
- unroll the second pie crust on top
- cut out a funny face:
- And then I baked it for 30-45 minutes.
- BOOM, you have a hot pie.
I ate the crap out of it!! And it was so good!
I made another pie yesterday with strawberries and bananas, and that also ruled. If I make enough of these pies, maybe one day I’ll stop being a pussy and make my own pie crust.
