Woo Hoo Summer is here!

I'm a day late for that statement.  Yesterday was officially my first day of summer vakay.  I was just too busy to post.

Had my whole day lined out, starting with YIP Yoga in the Park, but the Thunderstorms were building and banging all around us, so common sense won out.  A person would be a fool to go stand in a park in 'down dog' in a thunderstorm especially next to a huge cottonwood tree.  We've been hammered with thunderstorms lately, lots of hail and high winds too.  Some of you may have even seen the news footage a few nights ago presented by Diane Sawyers they are so amazed at golf ball and baseball sized hail stones.  Lucky for us, we haven't had hail, only wind.  As I write this, I can hear roofers a few blocks over replacing a roof on a home.  Double lucky for us, our roof hasn't been blown apart like many of our neighbors.  We had shingles from the house next door in our yard this week. 

So back to yesterday.  A few weeks ago I was reading one of the blogs that I follow and she had posted that she made a sort of sorbet using only papaya and coconut milk.  It was so pretty and yummy looking, I thought that I'd give it a try.

Wednesday night, I cleaned a small papaya, and since I don't have a large blender only a small smoothie type I put the papaya in the food processor and processed it until smooth and then added it to the coconut milk that I had tried to whip into a whipped cream consistency in my big Kitchenaide mixer.

I had seen on Pinterest aka the crack website that you could quickly and easily whip coconut milk into a whipped topping.  LIARS!  Maybe if you have 24 hours to do it.  But I didn't so I just dumped the papaya in after about 10 minuets and gave it a whirl to get it all incorporated.  After a little taste, I decided that I had to make an adjustment.

I don't care for fresh papaya.  I read recipe after recipe where they make it seem like papaya is a fruit from heaven.  But every time I have it in something where it's taste is predominate all I can taste and smell is BURP!  A really bad BURP!   So I added a mango.  That helped immensely.  One other thing... my 'sorbet' was not the beautiful neon orange/pink color that M's was in her blog.  It was a very washed out peach color.  I wasn't about to add food coloring so it is what it is.

I poured this mixture into a glass dish and covered it and placed it in the freezer.  I had all intentions of giving it several stirs with a fork during the evening.  At 2:30 Thursday morning I woke up and probably said out loud "Oh CRAPS! my mom's favorite saying I forgot to stir my sorbet!"  That's right, not one single stir after I put it in the freezer.  Oh well...

When I got up the next morning I just moved it from the freezer to the fridge and left for work.  Later that evening I still had to chisel it out of the dish to put it back in the food processor, it had barely thawed.  I gave it a helluva work out in the food processor, making it really smooth and sorbet like.  I also added two maybe three tablespoons of Cream de Coco.  Oh my gosh! This was going to be SO good no burpy taste here.  I transferred it into another container and stuck it back in the freezer.

So Friday morning this is what I had.... the creamiest, yummiest sorbet.  Yeah, I had it for breakfast!!!   I whipped the left over Cream de Coco a little in the blender that's what will turn into a whipped topping.  The Cream de Coco made a really nice sauce.  The only thing I would possibly add is maybe some mini-chocolate chips!

The rest of my day was filled with

•  hair cut
• shopping for cat food and cat litter what I like to call In and Out for the cat  
• shopping for me that I didn't need to do, but too cute to pass up on
• brief visit with Jeff as he was grabbing a fishing pole and looking for a folding chair in the garage, trying to get him to go to a Doctor because his left arm looks like a Popeye arm, he pulled a muscle last week and it was fine until today.  He didn't have time to go to no doctor, he was headed to Arkansas to go fishing, was I crazy?
• a nap 
• happy hour with some of the girls from work
• picked up some dinner for Jody we got one of everything on the appetizer menu at HH.  
• the regular Friday night phone chat with Nita over a couple of glasses of wine.  

This morning I had a long chat with Di over plans for my visit to the ranch. 

I think I'm off to a good start...

Time for breakfast!  What did I do with those mini-chips?
Hmmm, this may even turn out well blended with some rum later this evening!