Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream

Well, our 6 week non-fat, low-carb, vegan diet trial is over.  Actually, it ended after just 4 weeks.  Getting progressively weaker as the weeks went on was my first sign that this diet wasn't actually making me feel better. Losing feeling in my legs during a session of physical therapy and then hardly being able to walk for the rest of the day was the last; that was the day we decided the trial was over.  Oh the things doctors think will make me feel better! (in the doctor's defense, I do have POTS which is basically just chronically weird circulation so the side effects weren't really that surprising)

It was an interesting month.  One that I definitely don't want to try again, but we picked up a few tips and recipes that we'll definitely be keeping around.  Here is our favorite-

  Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream

Serves 2

1/2 C almond milk (I'm sure good old cow milk would work well too)
1 T cocoa powder (splurging for the Ghirardelli cocoa is seriously worth it on this recipe)
4 dates, pitted
1 1/2 C dark sweet frozen cherries

Blend milk and dates in blender until there are no big date chunks.  Add cocoa and cherries, blend until smooth.  So good!  We also like it with frozen raspberries or frozen bananas.