Grape Sorbet via MY NEW FOOD PROCESSOR

So sometime last year I started making "banana ice cream" by cutting up frozen bananas and tossing them into a blender.

SO DELICIOUS.

So time consuming. A blender is not the best tool for banana ice cream.

Then I found a hand blender at Goodwill. That tool is AMAZING and makes my life soooooo much easier, for banana ice cream and blended soups and everything.

Then I started making strawberry sorbet.

YUMMMMMMMM.

Also time consuming, even with the hand blender.

Sigh. What is a food lover to do?

Pan over to TADA my new Kitchenaid Food Processor! Hooray! Applause! Woooooo!










I have such high hopes for it, among those hopes being that it will make me strawberry sorbet with less time and mess and effort. I can't help it, I'm lazy. So I decided to christen my wonderful new toy with the wonderful concoction!

There's only one problem.

I'm out of strawberries, both frozen and fresh.

No worries! I have a massive stash of bananas in the freezer and OH GOOD GOD they've gone completely gooey...that can't be safe to eat. To the trash with you, my good 'nanas.

Sigh. What to do, what to do!


But wait! They are grapes in my fridge! Delicious, tart green grapes! I bet those would make a wonderful sorbet! All that wonderful water content that would ice up deliciously well inside! All I have to do is pop them in the freezer for an hour...

Or two...

or three...

Move forward 5 hours, to 3 in the morning, when I decide, "They are firm enough! I need to break this baby in RIGHT NOW!"

I wish I had gotten more pictures, but I was just SO EXCITED.

Just pretend you were there: I assembled my new toy, following the instructions carefully (which by the way, aren't that great). I pull the grapes out of the freezer, turn on the processor, and toss them in!

And they liquify.

WHAT THE CRAP. Did I use the wrong blade attachment? Were they not frozen enough? With a sigh of defeat, I poured the slightly frothy, very chilled grape slush into a jar.

I grabbed a spoon, dipped it into the slush and tasted it.

YUMMYYYYYYYYY. I can only imagine that if this had been successful, it would have been my most delicious sorbet yet. Better than the strawberry, which I always added sugar to!

I decided to put the slush into the freezer to firm it up a bit, and we'll see what happens. I will definitely be trying this out again, leaving the grapes in the freezer overnight to completely freeze and firm up and I'll do 2 different batches to test out both blades.

I WILL have grape sorbet, as God as my witness!!!

Peace,
Mrs. H