The Reason I Do This (Sorbet Division)

[rdansky]

So it's getting on eleven or so, and Melinda and I are standing in the kitchen. She's holding the paddle from our ice cream maker; I'm holding the wooden salad scooper thingie* I've repurposed to transfer sorbet from the ice cream maker to the (also repurposed) yogurt containers I store the stuff in. We are both giggling like maniacs. She's licking

Comments

[zhai]

Fresh cherry sorbet?? Recipe plz? Though I am several dozen levels of Sorbetery behind you and will doubtless screw it up.

[rdansky]

Do you want the version with the horrified realization I'd just introduced a couple of cherry pits to the stick blender, or the one without?

[zhai]

Oh, with. Duh.

(...What's a stick blender? Does it blend sticks? My sorbetery is lower than I thought.)

[rdansky]

Imagine a hand held weed whacker with a metal blade instead of a cord. They're generally given as graduation gifts to young men just starting out on their own, courtesy of older relatives, who have no idea they will be used exclusively to make margaritas.

I literally managed to blow out my first stick blender during a dinner party as I was making fresh whipped cream for the dessert. Mind you, I also managed to set a tranquility fountain on fire through sheer force of personality.

[elbales]

an unfortunate accident involving a stick blender, three cherry pits, gravity, a strainer, centripedal force, a bottle of Simple Green, two very confused cats, and a lime

What, all at once? You're good.

[rdansky]

Those sorbet skills are MAD, I tell you. MAD!

[badger]

From now on, those things are labeled sorbet scoopers.

[rdansky]

SO MOTE IT BE!

[andelku]

Oh, geez! Fresh cherry sorbet!

[dawn_metcalf]

You guys crack me up! And, evidently, each other. *makes me smile* :-)