My skin is sweating

I used to love summer. The heat. The sun. The beach. The smell of suntan lotion and that gorgeous copper color of my skin come August. Summer meant freedom, no school, no homework and best of all summer meant vacation and friends! Screeeeeech....um oops I guess that was a while ago (like 20 years). Now, as I sit here at 9:40pm, twenty years post summer lovin', I am sweating in my third set of clothes since this afternoon. Why? Because here in Austria we are having a brutal heatwave and at nearly 10pm, the thermometer on my balcony reads 31 C (87.8 F) and the thermometer in the apartment reads 28.4 C (82.4 F). Where oh where is my beloved air conditioning?? That's right, I left it in America with all those other cool things. Alas, my complaining must come to an end and I have the perfect "cool" solution...

Yup, this is an awesome sweaty picture of me, but the delightfully delicious iced alcoholic beverage in my hand makes me not care!

Strawberry Fruit Popsicles

Ingredients:
1-2 cups Strawberries
1 cup Water (as needed)

Wash and de-stem strawberries. Add half of the water and puree using a hand mixer. Add more water if necessary. Freeze in popsicle trays. Taste just like Edy's Whole Fruit popsicles with NONE of the added sugar!!! I am planning on using this recipe with a variety of different fruits this summer. I think the measurements for different fruits might vary.

Makes 4 ice pops.

Banana Peanut Butter Ice Cream

This is another recipe I found on Pinterest! It is so easy and healthy to make.


Banana Peanut Butter Ice Cream

 Ingredients:
1 Banana
1 Tablespoon Peanut Butter

Slice one banana and place it in a freezer safe container until frozen. (I usually freeze it over night or freeze a bunch of bananas in individual containers so I have them ready when I want to make this recipe.) Add the frozen banana slices and the peanut butter to the blender and blend until the mixture is the consistency of ice cream. You will have to stir the mixture and then blend again 2-3 times.

I have also substituted Nutella for the peanut butter since my husband doesn't like peanut butter.