Because I Had To Make At Least A Little Sorbet While I Was Home
Tonight's concoction fell squarely into the "I have fruit. It's going to go bad. I should do something with it" category. Working title was "Orange Brutus", because I had a couple of oranges and my family's from Brooklyn and Dad's fond of talking about what an Orange Julius was like in the old days when they could use raw eggs in the recipe and Julius was the first name of Caesar who got stabbed by Brutus and...you know what? I'm going to shut up now.
So, Orange Brutus - orange, kiwi and lime. Color-wise, it got progressively more orange as it set up, which is kind of weird - that sort of green-to-orange progression hasn't been seen around Chez Dansky since they stopped making Fruit Brute. The overall taste is dominated by the kiwi, but it's very tangy - not as tart as Citrus Domination, but definitely more a palate cleanser than a dessert sorbet. Then again, that may be because I ran out of sugar while making this as well, so your mileage may vary. Texture-wise, it was very slushy coming out of the ice cream maker, but it set up nicely in the freezer. Scooping out a spoonful was easy, which was nice - I was afraid that slushy sorbet + freezer was going to give me something the consistency and appearance of a Horta.
Note - if you get that joke, you are old. And a nerd. And an old nerd.
In any case, that's the first sorbet in ages, mainly because I've been on the road pretty incessantly of late. I'm not sure, but I think this year sets the record for travel. Some of it's been family related, some of it's been voluntary - when you get asked to give a talk in Vienna, Ray, You Say Yes - and some of it's been work, but all of it's meant that I've rarely been home for more than a week or two at a stretch. That, in turn, has a big impact on my grocery shopping, which is to say "I'm unlikely to buy fruit when I'm going to be out the door in a couple of days". And if there's no fruit, there's no random agglomerations of "fruit that needs to get transmogrified before it grows ears."
So. I'm on the road again tomorrow. But tonight? Sorbet.
So, Orange Brutus - orange, kiwi and lime. Color-wise, it got progressively more orange as it set up, which is kind of weird - that sort of green-to-orange progression hasn't been seen around Chez Dansky since they stopped making Fruit Brute. The overall taste is dominated by the kiwi, but it's very tangy - not as tart as Citrus Domination, but definitely more a palate cleanser than a dessert sorbet. Then again, that may be because I ran out of sugar while making this as well, so your mileage may vary. Texture-wise, it was very slushy coming out of the ice cream maker, but it set up nicely in the freezer. Scooping out a spoonful was easy, which was nice - I was afraid that slushy sorbet + freezer was going to give me something the consistency and appearance of a Horta.
Note - if you get that joke, you are old. And a nerd. And an old nerd.
In any case, that's the first sorbet in ages, mainly because I've been on the road pretty incessantly of late. I'm not sure, but I think this year sets the record for travel. Some of it's been family related, some of it's been voluntary - when you get asked to give a talk in Vienna, Ray, You Say Yes - and some of it's been work, but all of it's meant that I've rarely been home for more than a week or two at a stretch. That, in turn, has a big impact on my grocery shopping, which is to say "I'm unlikely to buy fruit when I'm going to be out the door in a couple of days". And if there's no fruit, there's no random agglomerations of "fruit that needs to get transmogrified before it grows ears."
So. I'm on the road again tomorrow. But tonight? Sorbet.
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