Experimental Sorbet - Feijoa and Blueberry

As promised another ice cream maker experiment.
After only making one sorbet from a recipe, but working on the theory that sorbet is pretty much just fruit and sugar syrup...with perhaps a squeeze of lime to bring out the flavour, I gave tonight's effort a try.

I took a jar of feijoas in vanilla syrup and blended it in the food processor, added frozen blueberries, a squeeze of lime and then put it all in the ice cream maker. No measurements sorry just what looked about right.
If I was doing a 'proper' sorbet I should have strained the mixture and then frozen just the juice but it seemed like such a waste. To me the beauty of feijoa is the texture.

A successful experiment and solid enough to have in a cone for Isabella's dessert.

A New Toy

I've wanted an ice cream maker for ages but decided that we didn't have enough space for it and that we didn't need encouragement to eat ice cream.

I managed to convince myself this weekend that the ice cream makers on sale (60% off!) were small enough to find a home AND that I could make healthier sorbets.

If I'm honest my real motivation is to make home made ice creams and sorbets for special desserts. The appeal of alcoholic ice cream also has appeal.

My first attempt was a strawberry and raspberry sorbet. It was amazing.
The recipe came from the instruction book that came with my Sunbeam Ice Cream maker. My next job is to find a recipe that has a bit less sugar in it.

I can guarantee that there will be more frozen dessert posts to come.