Joy the Baker

There is something in the air this time of year. I’m as restless and a 12 year old girl waiting for summer break so she can go hang out at the community pool. Maybe it’s the impending 3 months of relentless, almost suffocating Los Angeles heat. Maybe I just yearn for the carefree days of summer. Maybe I just need a vacation. I’m completely restless these days, and with no real vacation in sight, what’s a girl to do but play with her ice cream maker.

Today I bring you Mango Lime Sorbet. It’s like going on vacation with your spoon. Just like going on vacation- minus those pesky airport lines, and the passports and the exciting new places to see, and delicious new food to eat. Why do all that, really, when you can stay at home and make sorbet…

Pardon me while I wallow in woe. But seriously… someone please take me away.

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I had an experience with chocolate last night- and I mean EXPERIENCE: heart pounding, leg shaking, giggle coxing, divinely inspired- experience.  I think I hurt myself.  I think it was glorious.  

What did it?  How did this happen?  Dark Chocolate Sorbet.  It swept me off my feet. 

I’m sitting here struggling to find the words to describe this sorbet.  Literally.  It’s incredibly rich and deceptively creamy.  Please believe me when I say that even making this sorbet was magical.  I’m not talking rabbit out of a hat magic.  I’m talking about love at first site, sparks flying out of your ears, cannonball to the gut magic.  This changes everything.

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