Chipping Sparrow and Best Ice Cream Recipe Ever
Hi all,
First the sparrow...
Now is he cool or what?!? To borrow from K.C. and the Sunshine Band, it looks like he's going to do a little dance, scrub a little scrub, and git gone alright, git gone alright. (Long ago I warned you that I needed help.) No, seriously, ain't that one magnificent creature? The red cap and the eye stripe really are spectacular. At least we think so...
Now, about that ice cream... How about home-made banana/chocolate chip that will break your heart? Here's a list of machines/ingredients/steps that will make it happen:
- Buy a food processor, mixer, boat motor... Whatever... Just get yourself a gadget that can wreak havoc on a pile of food stuff and still keep it clean.
- Purchase one of those ice cream makers. You know, the gizmos you see at Sears, Amazon, and Walmart.
- On to the good stuff... The ingredients:
- We'll need about six ripe bananas (If they aren't really ripe, stick a sheet of paper in the middle of the bunch and wait til tomorrow.)
- One tablespoon of lemon juice
- 3/4 cup of light corn syrup
- Two tablespoons of vanilla extract
- One and one half cup of heavy cream
- Your favorite chocolate bar chopped very fine
- Put bananas in freezer and let harden for at least 12 hours.
- Remove bananas from freezer and let them thaw for about an hour. (The point being that you really don't want to work with yellow ice rods.)
- Now, peel those bananas. Warning - them puppies are cold and squooshy!
- Put the bananas along with the lemon juice in a bowl and "schmedrate" (mix) it for about 30 seconds.
- Add everything else sans the le chocolat slowly adding the heavy cream.
- Blend/"fold in" for 25 minutes or until you get a nice thick consistency and then toss in the chocolate and let whir for another three minutes. (It might be fun to add chopped pineapple at the last moment!)
- Finally, freeze the melange for an hour or more and dig in. Yee ha!
See you by the Summer feeders,
CapeCodAlan
Cornell Ornithology Laboratory: Inside Birding
Cornell Ornithology Laboratory: All About Birding
Comments
The I.C. sounds glorious! Please invite me over the next time you create that!
Posted by: josie | July 8, 2009 11:33 PM
Good videos. I was especially impressed with the connecting video about the Chipping Sparrow feeding a juvenile Cow Bird.
I've observed Common Grackles feeding juvenile Boat Tail Grackles, and thought that was unusual. But your video shows the sparrow, from a different Family, feeding another,from a different family. That seems even more unusual.
Or maybe in a bird's world, cross feeding is normal.
Interesting and informative none-the-less. Thanks for posting it.
Cheers,
Harry "Gipper" Morris
Posted by: Harry Morris | July 10, 2009 5:38 PM