I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

I just had some delicious home-made carrot,leek and tomato soup, which I made with my new Bamix (which I bought because my old stick-blender was a lemon, and I was sick of crappy stick-blenders, so I decided to hang the expense and go with the best, because I would be using it so much). I have never had such smoothly pureed home-made soup. Wow. So smooth and creamy. Yum.

Also, making Optifast milkshakes with boiling water is like having creamy hot cocoa (only in different flavours). Though adding cocoa and coffee to a vanilla one is the nicest. And it never quite mixes in properly, not completely. Well, I suppose it would if I used the Bamix, but I'm afraid that most of it would end up splashed on the bench if I tried that. Splat!

Colesonline, with whom I do much of my supermarket shopping, sometimes tosses free samples of stuff in with the regular groceries. This time they put in two tubs of Ricotta cheese (two different styles). So I made ice cream with them.
( Igor, what did you do with those samples? )

One of the things I had intended to do today that I did manage to do was multiple ice-cream experiments, using at least one of my new ingredients, bwa-ha-ha!
( and I present to you, my fellow Doom-Lords, the most valuable substance in the universe - unobtanium! )

Another ice cream experiment...
( international exploration of flavours day, ho! )

I've been googling various ice cream recipes, and I thought I'd try out a few low-fat but dairy ones.
( the titration report, Sarah-Jane! )

Really rather odd weather today; it was quite cold this morning, but then the sun came out and the sky was beautiful with puffy and streaky clouds in it, but the wind was still rather chilly, and now it's downright cold again. Which perhaps means I was rather foolish to do another sorbet experiment, since it made my teeth ache with cold, but there it is, I did it.
( and behind door number three is... )

More time spent in the pursuit of sorbet...
( the experiments, Igor )

The search for a non-sugar sorbet continues...
( What are we doing tonight? Same thing we do every night: making sorbet )

More ice-cream making tonight!
I also went to a supermarket liquor store at lunchtime to get some brandy, not for drinking, but to use as the heat/cold conductor between the fixed bowl and the removable bowl.
( Igor, the notes on the experiments! )

I made some assertions in this post which I am now realizing were unfounded, to wit, things about insulin reaction and sucralose. Now I can't even recall where I got that information, but on further reading, looks like insulin reaction with artificial sweeteners is not straightforward at all.

Some sources say "no calories, no insulin reaction". Other sources say "sweet taste triggers an insulin reaction" -- in other words, it's psychosomatic. The implication of that is that it would occur with all sweeteners, or with none of them. And also that it would vary from individual to individual.

So, the plus side of that is that I feel a lot better about sucralose, which is good, because it is much cheaper than Xylotol and Stevia. I still like all three of them, though. And I am still determined that, even after my strict dieting is over, mine is going to be a sucrose-free household.