Making homemade, dairy-free ice cream

For those of you who do not have a high powered blender like a Vitamix, and want to make dairy free ice cream, I found an easy way. It does require an immersion/stick blender, which can be purchased at Amazon and other places for under $15.... I found mine at Goodwill for $2. Garage sales are a great place to find them as well. For making easy ice cream, take frozen fruit (I have used bananas, mangos, strawberries, etc.) and place it the fruit in a ziplock type bag. Pound the fruit with a hammer (I used the flat side of a meat tenderizer) until flattened. Place in a tall bowl (so it doesn't splatter out). Add some milk, and blend with the stick blender until creamy. Add more milk as needed to get to desired consistency. Sweeten with stevia or your favorite sweetener. This will also work for frozen milk cubes, like the mint chip ice cream recipe from St. Patricks Day that I posted. Just put the frozen cubes in a bag and pound them, and use the stick blender to blend. For vanilla ice cream, freeze dairy free milk in ice cube trays. When cubes are frozen, pop out of tray and store in ziplocks in the freezer. When you are ready to make the vanilla ice cream, add vanilla and sweetener after smashing cubes and blending with stick blender. From what I have read, store-bought almond milk isn't supposed to be frozen (I'm not sure why). I haven't tried it to see how it would work. I used homemade almond milk or coconut milk for these recipes.