Culinary Adventures with Camilla

For Thanksgiving the Precise Kitchen Elf made Lychee-Ginger (Dry Ice) Sherbet . When Nonna was planning a family dinner this weekend, she called and asked if R would be willing to do an encore performance He agreed.  sher·bet ˈSHərbət/ (noun) a frozen dessert made with fruit juice added to milk  or cream, egg white, or gelatin At  the Filipino market, he spotted a can of rambutan and decided to use that instead of lychee. Ingredients 2 C milk 2 C heavy cream 1/2 C rambutan juice (he pureed canned rambutan and strained out the pulp) 1" knob of ginger, peeled and sliced into coins 4 large eggs 1 C organic granulated sugar dry ice Procedure In a medium saucepan, bring the heavy cream and milk to a simmer. Add lychee juice and ginger slices and allow flavors to steep for at least 20 minutes over low heat. While the cream mixture steeps, separate the eggs. Place the yolks in a mixing bowl and reserve the whites for a different recipe....

My husband edited a piece about our dry ice fun on Thanksgiving.   DRY ice Cream Thanksgiving 2015.avi from JAKE MANN on Vimeo . This was our second sherbet for our literary Thanksgiving...and was part of my "The Adventures of Sherbet Holmes" dessert. Ingredients 2 C milk 2 C heavy cream 1/2 C raspberry puree 1 T ginger syrup 3" piece of lemon grass, trimmed and quartered 4 fresh basil leaves 4 egg yolks 1 C organic granulated sugar dry ice Procedure In a medium saucepan, bring the heavy cream, lemongrass, basil, and milk to a simmer. Add raspberry puree and ginger syrup and allow flavors to steep for at least 20 minutes over low heat. Strain out the lemongrass and basil before proceeding. In a large mixing bowl, beat egg yolks and sugar until light yellow in color. Add half of the cream mixture into the egg to temper. Then add the yolk mixture into the cream mixture. Over low heat, whisk the mixture until it thickens. Transf...

When the Precise Kitchen Elf heard that I planned to make two different sherbets for Thanksgiving, he asked if he could make them with dry ice. Sure thing.  We had seen it done at a pop-up dinner recently and he had a recipe in one of his cookbooks. So, when I was at work on Wednesday, Nonna and Nonno took him to get the dry ice. sher·bet ˈSHərbət/ (noun) a frozen dessert made with fruit juice added to milk  or cream, egg white, or gelatin R set his alarm clock and got up at 6am on Thanksgiving morning to make his bases. He did two - this one and a lemongrass-basil-raspberry sherbet. Ingredients 2 C milk 2 C heavy cream 1/2 C lychee juice (he pureed canned lychee and strained out the pulp) 1 T ginger syrup 4 egg yolks 1 C organic granulated sugar dry ice Procedure In a medium saucepan, bring the heavy cream and milk to a simmer. Add lychee juice and ginger syrup and allow flavors to steep for at least 20 minutes over low heat.  ...