Concocting Home-made Praying Mantis Ice Cream!

What You'll Need:
1. 4 cups of crushed ice
2. 1/2 cup rock salt, (regular salt is ok in a pinch)
3. 1 quart-sized ziploc-type bag
4. 1 sandwich-sized ziploc-type bag (two quart-sized ones are ok in a pinch as well)
5. 1/4 cup milk
6. 1/4 cup heavy cream
7. 2 tablespoons sugar
8. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
9. Green food coloring
10. scissors and paper towels

Pour the milk, heavy cream, sugar, vanilla and 3 or 4 drops of green food coloring into the small ziploc bag. Seal the bag as tightly as you can, trying to let out as much air as you can. It's okay if some air is inside, though.

Put half (two cups) of the crushed ice, half of the salt (1/4 cup), and the smaller bag you just created into the large ziploc bag. Gently squeeze out the air and seal it carefully.

Now to become an ice cream making machine! Squeeze the bag gently so you mix the contents of the smaller bag inside, and cold ice rubs around it. You may want to wrap a couple of paper towels around the bags so your finger don't become icicles. Continue squeezing and squooshing it gently for about 5 minutes.

Open and pour the salty water out from the larger bag. Put in the remaining half (two cups) of the crushed ice, and other half of the salt (1/4 cup). Seal the bag and squeeze and squoosh as before until the mixture in the smaller bag is ice-creamy thick.

Remove the small bag from the ice, and dry the outside of the bag with your paper towels. With scissors, cut one of the bottom corners off of the small bag and squeeze your praying mantis ice cream into small bowls.

Don't forget to say grace before eating, like a real Praying Mantis!