Every bite of food should be a sweet bite
For the past couple of weeks, the weather god are showing us what our summer is going to feel like, and, well… we are going to melt again this year - its going to be HOT.
But they have been a bit kind in the transition. We have gotten sunny days in the high 90’s but with the added bonus of breeze days and very little humidity. Those perfect days of summer, when all you want to do is sit under a canopy of trees and just be.
My maternal grandmother was a true Italian socialite. She had the most active social life of anyone that I have ever met. When I was growing up, spending time with her meant going to afternoon coffee dates with her friends. Playing canasta or poker at the country club most of Saturday afternoons and if there was a birthday, wedding, baby birth, baptism or any type of celebration within a 50-mile radius in our city, she was there, my sister and I at her heels.
She was generous, funny, and knew EVERYONE. What she was not, however, was a fan of a kitchen. Unlike my paternal grandmother, Nonna Franca was not a slave to her kitchen. She could cook, but it was easy dishes, something that she could put together fast and be out of there to meet her social circle at the next bingo game.
It’s the summer and that means that we are NOT enjoying the 95+ degree temperatures we are experiencing over here in Florida.
It’s hot, muddy and sticky and we are melting (no joke).
Which means one thing - It’s the perfect weather to be frolicking in the pool all they day, drinking cool drinks, eating light foods and finishing it off with homemade fruit sorbet.
Once more I used a great cookbook – The Perfect Scoop from David Lebovitz to get me started. This is the first time I have ever made sorbet, and after finding out how easy it is to do, (took me like 10 minutes to whip up!) we now have numerous plastic containers all over the refrigerator with different types of fruit sorbets to enjoy.