Cooking Experiment: Strawberry Sorbet
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tuftearsIn the aftermath of the brunch, I had a large amount of leftovers to work through and process in some way. Those who know me well know that I am a misercat and loathe to throw out perfectly good food. So...
* Soy sauce chicken wings and legs: I cut these up and made them into fried rice along with some of the tofu-sausage-pickled-veggies salad. Tasted great!
* Corn muffins: I made turkey-and-beef chili. These went well together, but I can't really taste the beefiness, so I will probably not bother with ground beef in the future.
* Sausage rolls: still pending in the freezer, but they'll be next on the list of things to prep and serve for a lunch with my mom and her caretaker.
And... Three baggies with a double handful each of frozen fresh strawberries. What was I going to do with these?
I looked around for strawberry recipes... and saw strawberry sorbet.
Perfect! They'd keep well in the freezer, rather than suffering in the refrigerator as they would have if I had made them into smoothies. I went out to CostCo and bought an ice cream maker to give it a try.
I made the simple syrup first, per the recipe, then used the food processor on the strawberries, which took a bit of fussing. I didn't bother with a strainer, not seeing the point; the frozen strawberries had yielded something more like powdered strawberries than anything that would reasonably fit through a fine mesh. That might have worked better with fresh strawberries.
I then poured the frozen strawberries mix into the frozen ice cream maker bowl, added the syrup, stirred, determined it didn't look sufficiently liquid so I added some cranberry-raspberry juice, and stuck the mixer blade in, then closed the lid and started it up. Easy, right?
... Oops. That sorbet looked like it was spilling over the top. Why...
Oh! The mixer blade, I realized, is mixing air into the sorbet. That explained why the lid was open on the top... So I skimmed sorbet off the top. What you see above is post-skimming. For future reference, I'll want to make sure not to fill the ice cream maker's bowl over 2/3rd or so.
Still, it makes pretty tasty sorbet and I've put two containers of the stuff into the freezer so I can enjoy them as desired.
With post-it notes to identify the date... I don't want to turn into a frozen food hoarder. -_-
* Soy sauce chicken wings and legs: I cut these up and made them into fried rice along with some of the tofu-sausage-pickled-veggies salad. Tasted great!
* Corn muffins: I made turkey-and-beef chili. These went well together, but I can't really taste the beefiness, so I will probably not bother with ground beef in the future.
* Sausage rolls: still pending in the freezer, but they'll be next on the list of things to prep and serve for a lunch with my mom and her caretaker.
And... Three baggies with a double handful each of frozen fresh strawberries. What was I going to do with these?
I looked around for strawberry recipes... and saw strawberry sorbet.
Perfect! They'd keep well in the freezer, rather than suffering in the refrigerator as they would have if I had made them into smoothies. I went out to CostCo and bought an ice cream maker to give it a try.
I made the simple syrup first, per the recipe, then used the food processor on the strawberries, which took a bit of fussing. I didn't bother with a strainer, not seeing the point; the frozen strawberries had yielded something more like powdered strawberries than anything that would reasonably fit through a fine mesh. That might have worked better with fresh strawberries.
I then poured the frozen strawberries mix into the frozen ice cream maker bowl, added the syrup, stirred, determined it didn't look sufficiently liquid so I added some cranberry-raspberry juice, and stuck the mixer blade in, then closed the lid and started it up. Easy, right?
... Oops. That sorbet looked like it was spilling over the top. Why...
Oh! The mixer blade, I realized, is mixing air into the sorbet. That explained why the lid was open on the top... So I skimmed sorbet off the top. What you see above is post-skimming. For future reference, I'll want to make sure not to fill the ice cream maker's bowl over 2/3rd or so.
Still, it makes pretty tasty sorbet and I've put two containers of the stuff into the freezer so I can enjoy them as desired.
With post-it notes to identify the date... I don't want to turn into a frozen food hoarder. -_-
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Date: 2013-06-19 04:24 am (UTC)If I ever get a food processor, my waistline may never forgive me.