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Recipe: Plum and Orange Sorbet

October 20, 2010

The pears went bad so I called on the plums. The plums started to go so I… reached for the ice cream maker. I could have made preserves, but I had too few plums to make jam worthwhile. The fruit would have slipped from iffy to unusable by the time I had found the jars, [...]

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Concord Grape Sorbet

November 3, 2009

The comments are rolling in in response to the cookbook give away. Your fabulous ideas make me want to rent a delightful, impractically located venue and throw a great big bash. (If you missed the post, Rose Murray’s wonderful A Taste of Canada is up for grabs. To enter the draw, all you have to [...]

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What If …

August 27, 2008

People often ask writers where they get their ideas. I can honestly say I don’t know. No matter what inspiration-inducing trick I use, my pattern is always the same. No idea. … Idea! The amount of time represented by those three dots varies. It could be nanoseconds. It could be days. And in some cases, [...]

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Champagne and Grapefruit Sorbet

July 18, 2008

I’m so busted. Yes, I ranted about how you shouldn’t buy any kitchen gadget with the word “maker” in it. Yes, I’ve rabbited on an on about my tiny kitchen. And yes, despite everything I said, I went out and bought a fair-sized electric “maker”. An ice cream maker. It takes up space in the [...]

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