It’s Summer! Personally, I think sorbets are so much more refreshing than ice cream when it’s hot out. Cannelle et Vanille has this recipe on her site and her beautiful images make me feel cooler already!

The recipe is perfectly simple for those sticky summer afternoons.

Peach Sorbet

500 grams peach puree
75 grams atomized glucose
110 grams water
65 grams sugar
3 grams sorbet stabilizer

Pineapple Sorbet

500 grams pineapple puree
70 grams water
75 grams atomized glucose
60 grams sugar
1.5 grams sorbet stabilizer

Kiwi Sorbet

500 grams kiwi puree
225 grams water
65 grams atomized glucose
120 grams sugar
2 grams sorbet stabilizer

Method is the same for all of them

Start by making the sugar syrup. Place the water and the atomized glucose in a small saucepan . Bring to a simmer. In the meantime, whisk together the sugar and sorbet stabilizer in a separate bowl . When the water comes to a light boil, add the sugar and stabilizer mixture, whisk and bring to a boil. When it starts to boil, pour the syrup into a bowl and let it cool slightly before refrigerating. Refrigerate the sugar syrup overnight.

Add the fruit puree to the sugar syrup, mix really well and churn in ice cream machine . Freeze.

In the summer I love to eat fresh pineapple .  It’s one of my favorite summer fruits but one of my least favorite to actually prepare.  Cutting a pineapple is a frustrating process and typically involves a much larger knife than I prefer to use in the kitchen.

That’s why I was so excited to see the Vacu Vin Pineapple Corer at Cooking.com .  It cores the pineapple for you, all you need to do is slice off the top and then this device does the rest for you, making perfect pineapple rings.

I compared several different pineapple corers/slicers before settling on this one.  What really sold me was that it came with three different sized attachments depending on the size of the fruit.  Otherwise most of the different models were pretty similar in price and style.  The Vacu Vin is only $14.95, which is about the price threshold I have for random kitchen tools.

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