summer time = ice cream time!

We have an ice cream-maker attachment for our KitchenAid mixer and try to make ice cream or sorbet (fondly referred to as sorbetto by me) whenever possible.  Since it's getting warm, we have officially broken out the tools and made our first ice cream of the season, strawberry!!

We used the strawberry ice cream recipe from The Ultimate Ice Cream Book by Bruce Weinstein.  The book is fairly straight forward, most of the recipes have just a few ingredients, so it's not too intimidating for a not-so-serious cook!

photo from amazon listing

The recipe calls for more strawberries than we had so we (Ryan..) added pineapple.  The ice cream came out sweet and strawberry-tasting..but there was a slight bitterness to it too.  We think that the bitterness may be from the pineapple, even though it was not particularly bitter.  It is especially tasty with chocolate chips!

I think the next flavor we should go for should be coconut.  It's fresh and fruity for summer, and we happen to have coconut milk on hand.  I think a sorbet would be perfect!  In addition to coconut milk, we will also need coconut water (I haven't seen this around anywhere)..and sugar.  That's it!!  <3