{"id":586,"date":"2014-06-22T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livingthehealthychoice.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2015-03-22T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:22:37","slug":"fig-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingthehealthychoice.com\/de\/fig-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"Fig Ice Cream & Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Croatia_15\" I want to start a new section on my blog \u2013 a travel section. I have been lucky enough to explore and see many different parts of the world, despite my young age. Once I got into photography, travelling got even more interesting. Different countries bring different colors, shapes and people. Trying to capture a country or city in its honest and real way is something I wish to be able to do. I have always been better at photographing people, so it\u2019s a challenge I set for myself every time I go somewhere new.<\/p>\n

When food – good food – started to become\u00a0an important part of my life, travelling got magical. All of the sudden I began noticing fruits and vegetables I had never seen before, ordering new foreign dishes and strolling around local markets.
\nIt\u2019s incredible how much inspiration one can find in strange places. You don\u2019t even have to leave the country; I find it the most relaxing leaving everyday life behind for the weekend and spend it on the countryside or a different city.
\nI know that it can be a bit expensive to travel, but I personally have made it one of my priorities. It\u2019s the same with eating healthy. It\u2019s probably the most asked question I get: \u201cHow can you afford eating like this? It\u2019s so expensive!\u201d Yes and no. I have simply shifted my priorities. I try not to spend my earned money on clothes and make up and rather buy food ingredients I love. The rest I save for my travels. Plus if you look into it, you can get pretty good and fair deals for your grocery shopping, but that\u2019s another story\u2026<\/p>\n

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During the Easter holidays I took some days off and joined my parents and friends for a trip to Croatia. I have visited Croatia before, a couple years ago, and other than I remembered it being pretty, I did not really know what to expect. Now I can say: this country blew my mind. We found a temporarily home in a small fisherman village on the island of Cres, up in the north of beautiful Croatia. Already the drive from the ferry to the village was incredible. Never have I seen so much green in my life. Trees everywhere, big and healthy looking, old and young; it was hard to make out a spot not covered in green.<\/p>\n

The Croatian kitchen is not very costumized for people concentrating on a plant-based diet. Next to the mainland, Croatia consists of hundreds of small islands and has lots and lots of water. It\u2019s no surprise that they mostly serve fish in restaurants. Whenever I came along, I simply ordered the side dishes. My meal would consist of saut\u00e9ed chard (lots and lots of it), potatoes and tomato salad. In order to vary up my dinners, I went\u00a0grocery shopping at markets, buying vegetables and fruits that we all cooked together at night. Everyone was assigned to prepare a different meal component and together we were filling our table with roasted vegetables and salads. I remember once making a big pot of chili sin carne, using the leftovers the next day for our avocado wraps, that were all packed up in our bags along with fruits, while we were out hiking. Soon we were eating them in joy after jumping in the freezing ocean to cool ourselves on breaks. For those of us who asked, there was chocolate as well. It was Easter after all.<\/p>\n

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It was only April, so it was too early to pick fresh figs from the trees. During summer it\u2019s supposed to be amazing \u2013 figs everywhere. I think that would pretty much be my paradise.
\nOn a hike, moving up the hills and inland, we passed a village and discovered a sign that was advertising homemade fig ice cream. We didn\u2019t think twice and were greeted by a lovely woman, who offered us seats in front of her house, handing out the ice cream and lemonades. Originally from Austria, she young moved to South America and has been living all over the place since. These days she felt like settling down, owns a house in a twenty souls village in Croatia, is a shepherdess and during the summer she sells self-made fig ice cream. Sitting there, eating semi frozen ice cream and listening to her story, I felt so incredible happy.
\nThose days lasted forever and in the end flew by way too fast. I was sad to leave but I tried to remember what I came across in a book the other day: Do not see holidays as a reward of what you\u2019ve done, but as a preparation of what\u2019s to come. I like that.<\/p>\n

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When I look back to this happy week, I immediatly think of fig ice cream and I decided to recreate it and share it with you. Since fresh figs are not in season yet, it\u2019s made of sun-dried figs, just as the one I tasted in Croatia. I spiced it with sage, which flavor I absolutely love. It\u2019s so intense that you\u2019ll only need to add very little. Not only sage, also the flavor of dried figs is very intense, so the more water you mix them with, the lighter the flavor will get. (Just keep in mind that the texture will harden, when adding more water.) I made it without the help of an ice cream machine, only using the freezer to turn the cream to ice.<\/p>\n

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