Warning: Uninspired photos ahead. Hey, I’ve been tired lately and in this house you have to be really quick on your feet in this house in order to capture edibles before they disappear.
Soon it will be time for apple sauce and apple pie, Indian pudding, roasted chestnuts, cranberry sauce and pumpkin bread. But right now there’s still some more time for the fun and frozen treats of summer. We’ve been experimenting and making a lot of sweet treats this season.
Below is watermelon sorbet. Ingredients: one beautiful melon, recently harvested from our farm.
We just froze it and then blended it up until it was all nice and smooth. A Vitamix
Do you know about banana “ice cream”?? If you take frozen bananas and run them through a vitmix or food processor for a bit, it turns out that most perfect concoction with the consistency of frozen yogurt. It really couldn’t be easier! The picture below is from a day when we added a bit of raw cocoa powder and a splash of almond extract. That was yummy too, but I think my personal favorite is just the straight bananas with a dash of vanilla.
For frozen treats of the pre-made variety, we’ve really been enjoying the new coconut water sorbets by So Delicious.
We like to get 3 different flavors and share them; lemon-aid, raspberry and mango being the combo of choice with the younger set (though the hibiscus flavor is really good too, and a bit more sophisticated). It’s like fruit salad only cooler. In a past life I was a big fan of rainbow sherbet. And this way I get to pretend that I’m five years old again, which in-so-far-as I remember it, was a halfway decent year.
Here’s to a few more weeks of summer treats!
Um. . .YUM is all I can say! I didn’t know about banana-cream but you can bet we’ll try it! I love giving my kids something they believe is a treat but is healthy. . .we make popsicles that way and I sneak kale in and they love it.
Also the watermelon sorbet looks DELICIOUS. I love the combination of lemons and raspberries- I’ll bet that would be a good sorbet!
Looks great! I have a watermelon threatening to go bad…I’m going to try the freezer sorbet! Thanks for the inspiration, you just saved a melon from the compost pile.
Yum! I’m going to try the banana ice cream! How simple!
The frozen bananas look so creamy! I never would have thought you could get them to look that good. I am definitely going to try that. And oh, frozen fruit salad! What a wonderful idea! I love So Delicious hibiscus coconut water sorbet. I haven’t tried the other flavors, and now I can’t wait to!
I think your photos are super inspiring! They made my mouth water! I can’t wait to try all of these ideas! The watermelon looks delicious, the bananas look so creamy good, and the three coconut water sorbet flavors together are so colorful!