Peachy Keen

So now that I’m moved I finally have a full sized kitchen at my disposal and it’s been a long time since that has happened. My roommate and I also got a chest freezer for the garage, and I ended up with a full box of peaches this last week, so deliciously ripe and juicy. What does all of this mean? It means I made Sorbet and now I’m sharing my wild success with you. 

Blanching the peaches to peel them, very steamy work.

I made two kinds of Sorbet. A Peach and Pineapple Sorbet and a Raspberry Sorbet. The recipe is below. It was super simple once you got past the peeling the peaches step. Doesn’t take long at all and tastes so delicious. 

making the peach puree with my now naked peaches.

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup water (for the Peach and Pineapple sorbet I used 1 cup pineapple juice)
• 6 cups raspberries (about 1 3/4 pounds) or 6 Cups Peeled and chopped peaches
• 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice

 

Instructions

1. Heat the sugar and water in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and set aside to cool slightly.
2. Place the raspberries (Or Peaches) and lemon juice in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a blade attachment and process until smooth, about 1 minute. At this point you can use a fine mesh strainer to sieve out the seeds/solids but I left mine in.
3. Whisk the sugar syrup into the raspberry/peach purée. Cover and refrigerate until cold, at least 1 hour.
4. Whisk the raspberry mixture to recombine. Freeze in an ice cream maker or just dump into a container and put in the freezer. Transfer to a container with a tight fitting lid and place in the freezer until completely frozen, at least 3 hours. Let sit at room temperature to soften for a few minutes before serving. 

The raspberry sorbet post freezing. So Yummy!

Once finished I served my sorbet with a dollop of Spray Cream and a little wafer cookie. It was delish.

I ate the wafer cookie before I took the photo, I cannot pass up a good wafer cookie.

 

Mandolin Rain

Sorry I didn’t post last night! I am the living worst. My cutie pie bff and I went up to Park City to the Bruce Hornsby concert. Ooooh yeah.I love Bruce, as does Amanda. (Fun fact: when we became friends we had so much in common, we would “claim” things as ours and send emails back and forth to each other of things we claimed so that the other person couldn’t say that they liked it. I think Bruce Hornsby was on one of our lists and we both died and were reincarnated as besties.)

I digress.

The mountain air was AWESOME and it felt like fall and smelled like sweet sweet nature (mixed with a few suspicious pot-like smells). Everything was perfect until it started raining. But Taylor was a really good sport and didn’t complain once! Okay he complained once.

Me: “Why are you so mean?”
Tay: “Oh, I’m sorry. I’m just tired…and cold…and bored.”

Here he is with his poncho! (I know. It looks a lot like a body bag.)

The rain stopped before Bruce came on and it was an awesome night. Love my lil T for coming with me. Such a good sport.

If you don’t enjoy the Bruce Hornsbys, check him out now. Ah, sweet sounds of my childhoood.

The Spiral Jetty

A few years ago after I graduated from college, a week before I moved back to Texas, I got to visit the Spiral Jetty with a few friends. Guys, have you done this? In-credible. The ridiculously long and completely out-of-the-way drive is totally worth it.

Taylor and I have started to compile our list of summer funtivities (term coined by Lauren), and I think he would really get a kick out of the jetty. For those who are not familiar, the Spiral Jetty is an outdoor sculpture that was created by Robert Smithson in the seventies. And it rocks.

Here is a fun fact from Wiki:

At the time of Spiral Jetty’s construction, the water level of the lake was unusually low due to drought. Within a few years, the water level returned to a normal level, submerging the jetty for the next three decades.

THREE DECADES?! I would still be under-water for 2.5 years if I was a jetty instead of a jenny!

Anyway. It is really incredible. I can’t wait to go back. I’ll just have to make sure it’s not underwater before driving a billion miles on a road made of rocks and scissors.

Here are some photos my friends and I took at the jetty a few years ago for your viewing pleasure. If you have the chance to go- GO!

/ Photos by me, Rebecca Pletsch and Jen Watson /