You will never look at a banana the same way after you have tried this. When I looked at bananas I used to see a conduit to peanut butter or a natural oatmeal sweetener, now I see ice cream.

But not just any ice cream, in fact, not even ice cream at all – at it’s simplest this frosty treat is just bananas.  This dessert is raw, vegan, natural, and easy to make without an ice cream maker. In fact it makes an amazing afternoon snack or even breakfast.  Of course you can fancy it up with wonderful things like dark chocolate, almonds, peanut butter or coconut. Toppings make any dessert more fun.

I do not subscribe to the belief that fruit is bad if you are on a diet. I know there was some publicity awhile back about how you weren’t allowed to eat bananas on the Biggest Loser diet.

Well, eat this.  (Oh and we have eaten it. Every night in the last week.)

The reason I chose the Manuka Honey was that it has such a distinct, and delicious flavour. Luckily for me, J’s parents always bring it back from New Zealand for us so I don’t have to pay the crazy North American prices. I am sure regular honey would be delicious too. If you are looking for something sweet – add more sugar, we like it tart in our house. Also, J recommends it with a crumbled peanut butter and banana muffin on top. That man is spoiled.

If you are wondering if the rhubarb came from my garden, unfortunately it didn’t. We have been trying to grow it for two and a half years now. Our first plant was eaten by a deer. (Apparently no one told him the leaves are poisonous?) Our second plant was looking pretty bad last weekend, I am not sure it is established enough to survive our current heat and my lack of watering. I have heard from multiple sources that Rhubarb is almost impossible to kill once it gets going. Is anyone successfully growing Rhubarb? Any tips?

This is my entry to this week’s Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Katie at Eat This.

More Recipes That Might Interest:
Rhubarb and Ginger Compote
Apple Rhubarb Galette
Skor Ice Cream

This recipe was inspired by the Perfect Scoop and a couple of recipes on Cook’s Illustrated. Funny thing about blackberries is that in the Pacific Northwest they are naturalized, aggressive and really hard to get rid of – which means they grow everywhere. I didn’t realize there was anything funny about this until I was reading a wikipedia article on blackberries and apparently this is the exception rather then the norm.

I admit that I didn’t pick this batch myself but rather bought them from a farm stand where they had been picked locally – that said I have a yogurt container in the fridge waiting to turn into something fabulous, I am thinking either a batch of scones or a galette like this one.