The weather is warming up and I'm excited about making some sorbet and popsicles! I went out to the library and found a book called Ices: sorbets, granitas, lollies and more by Sunil Vijayakar. I found a yummy recipe for peach and plum popsicles which I made today. Unfortunately I couldn't get my hands on any fresh peaches or plums, but I bought some canned fruit in natural fruit juice. It did the job nicely. Even my brother liked them, and when I get his stamp of approval, I know I've done a good job :)
Peach and plum popsicles
(from Ices: sorbets, granitas, lollies and more by Sunil Vijayakar)
Makes 6
Ingredients
- 500ml fresh peach puree (or canned)
- 500ml fresh plum puree (canned works too)
- 6 popsicle moulds with sticks
Directions
- Top make the peach puree, place 600g of freshly skinned, stoned and chopped peaches into a saucepan with 200ml water and sugar to taste. Bring to the boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 4-5minutes.
- Remove from heat, leave it to cool and process until smoother in food processor.
- Make the plum puree in the same way with halved and stoned plums.
- Carefully spoon a little of the peach puree into the base of 6 popsicle moulds and top with a little of the plum mixture. Continue layering until the moulds and full.
- Insert the stick into the centre and freeze for 4-6 hours or until firm.
- To serve, dip the moulds into hot water for a few seconds and remove the popsicles.
I think this blog would be very empty if I didn't like cooking and baking as much as I do. There may be some of you out there who get bored of reading about my vegan cooking adventures, but I hope that for the other few, I offer some insight into what it is we vegans eat. I hope that I've dispelled any misconceptions that all we eat are fruit and vegetables.
I found a recipe for low-fat plum cobbler on the web which caught my eye because number one, I like the word "cobbler" (it sounds to me like something that Irish people sit around and eat on wooden tables in their adorable one bedroom cottages); two, because I've never used plum in a dessert other than fruit salad and thirdly because this recipe doesn't use any refined sugar (the bad stuff) or any oils or butters high in saturated fat. Yay!
This dessert is seriously delicious. I used green and purple plums, as well as adding in a few peaches. The sweetness of the green plums and peaches contrast with the tartness of the purple plums and all the flavours came together to create a pure deliciousness explosion in my mouth. I had to make the tough decision whether or not to write up this blog first or finish off my plum and peach cobbler. I chose the cobbler. Hands down.
I urge you to try new things. And if you're really daring, try something vegan one day. If you're not great in the kitchen, come to mine and we'll eat cobbler.
