I'm calling this a 'Gelato Sorbet' because it straddles the boundaries between Gelatos and Sorbets in texture, taste, and overarching 'feel.' It's light like a Sorbet but creamy like a Gelato, does that make sense? Now, I know that those possessed by nomenclature are itching to to know why Gelato and not just Ice Cream. Well... mostly because Gelatos (outside of Italy of course as there Gelato is just the word for Ice Cream) tend to be lighter and somewhat lower in fat than regular Ice Creams. It's a fuzzy boundary though so please go don't spend (as much time as I apparently am) thinking it over ;-)
Ingredients - blended together with a handheld blender :-)
2 cups-ish of frozen raspberries
1/2 cup-ish of
vanilla whey protein powder
1/2 cup-ish of full-fat Greek (or Turkish!) yogurt (just make sure it's super thick and creamy)
Sorry about the "-ish" in my measurements above. It's just that I didn't measure too closely because this was a quick experiment I made for some friends which I wasn't going to post but then the final product turned out so good that here I am typing away ;-) The recipe above is the basic gist though. It's pretty cool because it involves just three ingredients (whey, berries, and yogurt) and is absurdly quick to make. Cool, no? And could it possibly be any easier? You can play around with the proportions too: make it more sorbet-like by adding more frozen berries, more gelato-like with extra yogurt, or more kaPOW!(d)erful with extra whey. Note too that, topped at the end with a tbsp or two of extra yogurt (or even some clotted cream!) is fantastic as the latter add a nice creamy texture which, as a factor of not being frozen, lends a great contrast against the colder berriness of the whole thing. What better for a hot day, honestly?
Macros per one bowl (if you divide the above into two and follow the measurements provided above without the 'ish'): 320kcals, 27.5g protein, 29g carbos (18.5g sugars), 11.6g fat (7.5gsat) and 5.5g fiber!
flavored whey and I wasn't too impressed by it. No, not at all. Instead of conjuring up a cinnamon roll, all that powder did for me was conjure up a lab (in the sense of it tasting overly artificial and hm-hm). Not having a good cinnamon flavored whey didn't bother me too much though because creating one's own is so easy - all you need to do is find a good vanilla protein powder and mix it up with one hell of a lot of cinnamon +/- some maple syrup ;-) When I was at BodyPower 2012 though, I stopped b y the Reflex stall and, there, I was offered a taste of their soon-to-be-launched cinnamon flavored peptide fusion (a blend of whey casein and egg). I smiled, nodded, and thought 'hm....' as I accepted the little sample whey-containing-shot-glass with, I'll admit, some trepidation. Zeus Almighty though, DAMN! It was delicious! I wanted to scream FINALLY, a good cinnamon formula that actually beats my simple vanilla + cinnamon combo in the cinnamon roll department!
for this one and MAN, oh MAN! did that dropkick the whole thing into to another dimension of OOMPH (also, I always think that when vanilla ice cream has visible vanilla seeds, it looks even tastier for some reason?) Vanilla ice cream is one of my all time favorites; it's simple but done right, oh! it can pack such a delicious punch! AAAA!!!!
Ingredients - blended together with a handheld blender :-)
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that Sanna gave me in Stockholm. I've always been intrigued by peanut flour and the oh-so-famous PB2 
so this was a much welcome gift (tack tack, Sanna!) which ended up impressing because it lends a mild peanutbutteriness that's quite different from that you get from using good old peanut butter!
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