There are always culls on a farm. Ken and I used to gorge ourselves on ripe melons that had a soft spot; they couldn’t go to market or a CSA box. And then my parents sent us an ice cream maker and I tried melon sorbet. It was a hit, so once we had eaten our fill, I cleaned, peeled, seeded and cubed the melons with a soft spot. Once cubed I packed for the …
This morning I am baking bread, making sorbet, and bagging up pizza dough. I will deliver these to three farms. My goal is to give farmer friends things that take time to prepare (when they have little extra time or energy this busy of year) for some faster food. I make sorbet from culled fruit frozen last season. Fruit is in short supply this time of year, but this first heat seems to make us …
So, it has begun. Now when there is surplus and some blemished produce, one starts to freeze, can, dehydrate. Since I still have many jars in the root cellar, I started here with freezing melon. Smoothies or sorbet come next spring when we get heat before we have fresh fruit Thank you, Josh and Rama! The first sorbet goes to you.
