Let's start with homemade strawberry sorbet. I took a number of recipes I found online and teased out the essentials: a quart of fresh strawberries, about 1.5 cups of sugar syrup, and 1tbsp of lime or lemon juice. I found person who added a packet of strawberry gelatin, so I did the same--this, in fact, made the sorbet a smidgen too sweet, but that mattered little for my application. I blended it all up (the sugar syrup needs to be cool, fyi) and then popped it in my ice cream maker for about 20 minutes. Then, it went straight to the freezer. After a few hours--and by the time my friend arrived--it was ready! Next step, making it alcoholic. Some recipes call for you to put about a 1/4 cup of vodka straight into the mix before putting it into the ice cream maker. But I knew that I wanted to make a cocktail out of it, so I didn't bother. I put 2 generous scoops of the sorbet into the blender, topped it w/ ~3/4 cup OJ and enough vodka to make me happy and blended it up... the result? delicious!
