If hotdog squid is on-upping things, then how about Mason Jar ice cream( and if you have a paint shaker, get it out to save your arms).
1. Clean glass quart mason jar with lid (if you can, put it in the freezer to get cold before adding in the raw ingredients)
2. 1 cup of heavy cream
3. 1-2 Tablespoons sugar (if you have extra rich and good heavy cream, use 1 Tablespoon)
4. 1 and a half teaspoons good vanilla extract
5. pinch of salt
Add it all together, screw on lid, start shaking the sealed jar. If you chilled the jar, hold jar with oven mitts. (Or put in paint shaker.)
Shake it till mixture doubles in size. No wimpy arms please, you gotta shake it. Works great if you have maniac kids and pass it from one to the other every minute and challenge next kid to shake harder. Paint shaker should get it done in 3 minutes or so.
After doubling in size, needs a hard freeze, so pop it into the best working freezer you can find. Growing up, we had big freezer in the garage that was much better than the freezer compartment of the 'fridge in the kitchen.
Wait at least 3 hrs.
Mmmmmm.
You can tweak it a little with additions, but keep amounts small. And no shaking/mixing the jar outside on a hot day, you won't get the volume you need (but I think a paint shaker could get it done no matter how hot it is).
Edit:
I base this on the Tupperware ice cream mom used to make when I was a kid. I think she got a recipe from Ask Heloise or some other Depression Era home economic font of frugal living. When I made this a few time in college in the glass jar, my roomies from Idaho were very impressed with my DIY ice-cream, but when they went to replicate it, well, their results suffered due to lack of volume...they didn't have the gusto to shake it properly.
Edit2:
Making another go today of homemade baguette with the blender ground whole wheat (from wheat berries to flour in the Vitamix). Dough is rising as I type. Last time I made this, well, I don't think I let it rise for long enough as it was a little dense when cooked. Made excellent french toast the next morning and that earned me bonus points with Sweetie-pie.
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