you probably thought one ofus had fallen of the face of the earth. you probably thought one of us was a huge flake whom the other one should have never entrusted to be the other half of this team. but you know what? she's got a dessert that will make you forget everything happened between us, and we're going to be better than ever.
this recipe is based off the simple but profound idea that everything you like cold in the summer can be made hot for the winter and be just as good. like apple juice. and rum.
so a classic summer sorbet is ginger lychee, made with canned lychees and, imho, the most important ingredient ever, the ginger people brand ginger sauce, which i will stop plugging. some mint if you want, some lime if you want, some simple sugar syrup.
so here's what one of us did with that can of lychees she was planning to turn into sorbet all summer: she simmered a big 20 ounce can of lychees in syrup with about 1/4 cup of ginger people ginger sauce, adding just a touch of sugar and a touch of cheap sweet white wine that was on sale at CVS and is actually undrinkable and therefore perfect for poaching fruit. she added some mint and cooked the mess down until about half the liquid remained. then she added a splash of lime juice. she served the whole mess over some mango sorbet, which may or may not defeat her whole thesis of cold things turned into hot things, but it would have worked just as well over angel food cake or shortcake or somesuch.
oh and one of us forgot to take pictures, so here's a picture of a can of lychees.
it's not even the brand that she used! truthfully lychees are not very colorful, and but for the spring of mint, the whole thing is just an off white which would be very comforting if one or both of us were on the spectrum, which has been established by internet quizzes is very likely.
