We had company for dinner tonight and I was looking for a dessert that I didn't have to bake since it is hot outside. We have air conditioning but I've always felt a bit funny about heating up the house via the oven and then making the air conditioning work extra hard to cool things down again. Not terribly frugal.
Anyway, I was leafing through cookbooks and was inspired by the ice cream recipes but didn't have cream in the house and didn't feel like going to the grocery store again.
Then I saw sorbet recipes. Hmmm, I thought. I still have some rhubarb in the garden - although I would have to say this year has not produced a bumper crop - I wonder what a rhubarb sorbet would be like. I was going to improvise and then decided, since I've only made ice cream twice before, that maybe I would take a surf around the net. This sorbet did pretty much what my improvisation was going to be. I made it. It was delicious. A very delicate rhubarb flavour and very refreshing. I didn't have the ginger and, as mentioned, did not want to make another trip to the grocery store so left it out. I did have vanilla vodka so thought that made sense. It was yummy. And, I think the ginger would have masked the rhubarb flavour so was quite happy with the end result.
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