Spring-cleaning got my ice cream maker back! I’ve been diligently winnowing the contents of the refrigerator and freezer down to the point where we can (1) see everything; (2) gain space. The first thing to go back in was the bowl of our ice cream maker so that I can go back to making sorbet [...]
Archive for the ‘Sorbet’ Category
Chocolate Coconut and Almond Sorbet
Posted in Chocolate, Sorbet, tagged Chocolate coconut almond sorbet on March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Dark Days 12, Part 2, Valentine’s Day Challenge: Lemon Verbena Ice Cream, Cranberry Sorbet and Maple Candied Cranberries
Posted in Cranberries, Dark Days Challenge, Dessert, Sorbet, tagged Valentine's Day ice cream dessert on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I pull out the stops to make an all-local delectable fancy dessert, much to my surprise [...]
Lemon Verbena Ice Cream
Posted in Herbs, Sorbet, tagged Lemon verbena ice cream on September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This beautiful ice cream is simply delicious: it’s lemony and grassy from the herbs. Our CSA grew lemon verbena for the first time this year and now, in September, it’s on to a lush second growth and is plentiful. I bring home a bunch nearly every week and surprisingly find a lot of uses for [...]
Paper Chef: Nectarine Upside-Down Cake with Green Tea Ice Cream
Posted in Berries, Cake, Paper Chef, Sorbet, Stone fruit on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
With the ingredients nectarines, cornmeal, almonds and green tea for this month’s Paper Chef, I immediately thought of an upside-down cake that I used to make — every summer it seems — but forgot about in the last couple of years. I’ve made it with both plums and nectarines. Nectarines are in full season now, [...]
Plum Sorbet with Ginger and Cardamom
Posted in Sorbet, Stone fruit, tagged Plum Ginger Sorbet on August 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was listening to A Splendid Table on NPR while driving between farm and farmers market a couple of Saturdays ago and heard Mario Batali expounding on gelato made from really, really ripe fruit. This was for me, so I thought, given the really, really ripe plums on my table that were going to be [...]
Blueberry Basil Sorbet
Posted in Berries, Herbs, Sorbet, tagged Blueberry basil sorbet on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We wandered into our amazing local ice cream parlor the other day and sampled delicious and perfectly seasonal blueberry basil sorbet. This particular shop, known for unusual combinations of ingredients, always has something so completely right for the moment in addition to its usual fare, which is anything but standard. I’ve been planning on making [...]
Peach and Raspberry Sorbet
Posted in Berries, Sorbet, Stone fruit, tagged Peach melba sorbet on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is like the famous dessert Peach Melba but without the ice cream. “Peach Melba” was invented by Auguste Escoffier in Paris and named after a singer named Nellie Melba. It typically consists of a peach and raspberry sauce served over vanilla ice cream. The first white peaches of the summer and the first red [...]
Strawberry Ice Cream
Posted in Berries, Sorbet on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I made an awesome orange-strawberry sorbet the other day, not documented but hopeful, although it was icy. I was surprised, since it had added an abundant amount of orange zest and Grand Marnier liqueur and a reasonable amount of pulp. Every frozen concoction goes through the exercise of texture, so-called mouth feel (not my favorite [...]
