As a final wave to summer, check out these delicious frozen ice cream, sorbet and lolly recipes as well as a sauce perfect for pouring over ice cream. Plus you will find the #CookBlogShare linky for week 34.
Welcome to #CookBlogShare the weekly linky for all things foodie hosted here on Recipes Made Easy the last Tuesday of the month, at Lost in Food on the 2nd Tuesday of the month and with our guests hosts on the remaining Tuesdays.
Its the place where food bloggers can share their latest posts and for you the reader to find new food blogs and recipes to enjoy.
My August in a Nutshell
Wow another month has gone by since the last #cookBlogShare on Recipes Made Easy. For me its been another of being predominately on my own up in Suffolk but also a month for finally seeing a few members of my extended family.
Have you managed to see a few friends and family? Sure its nothing like the old normal, but at least some social interaction can now take place.
At the begining of the month we celebrated my father-in-law's 90th birthday with a responsible socially distanced garden party. It was so nice to see all my nieces and nephews again after so long. Now most of them have partners too, and as Richard Senior said, the family tribe is growing fast. He will soon be a great grandfather too.
My sister also managed to have a few days with me in Suffolk and I had not seen her since the beginning of the year. We spent a day slicing and then freezing some of the many apples from my trees. It reminded us of when we were little and we used to prepare apples for pocket money that were then used to make apple pies, sold in our family bakery.
We did give ourselves one day off for a trip to the coast, only my 2nd trip this year which is pretty poor given its only a few miles away from the cottages. The sea was surprisingly warm and I wished I had taken my swim suit.
Also this month was the annual Perseid meteor shower from the comet Swift–Tuttle. They peak around the 12th August a date that is easy for me to remember as it would have been my mums birthday. So as my sister was with me, and we had lovely clear skies, we sat in the garden and over the period of a few hours on that very warm night we saw well in excess of 50 shooting stars.
Having now spent the majority of the last couple of months here in Suffolk, I'm pleased to say that the gardens are looking well cared for again and I'm almost on top of all the general maintenance jobs. And our holiday cottages after a delayed start to the summer season are now fully booked well into October.
As for work on the blogs, it's hard getting into full work mode in Suffolk with the garden calling but I'll be back in London soon enough. In the meantime I'm making the most of the lovely fresh air up here.
Frozen Treats
Weather wise August has been a stange month, one week it was swelteringly hot and the next it felt like Autumn was well and truly on the way . With some very strong winds I watched with dismay as at least half my plum crop ended up unripe and on the ground last week.
But I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to summer yet, so I have decided to share some suitably summery delicious frozen treats.
I love ice cream and sorbets, and have several ice creams on Recipes Made Easy. One of my favourites is Basil Ice Cream its unusual flavouring is not always easy to pin point if you don't know what it is, so it is a good conversation point.
I'm also extremely partial to stem ginger ice cream. It is delicious with rhubarb crumble.
Chocolate Orange Ice cream
The Baking Explorer is a girl after my own heart a who like me, loves ice cream anytime of the year. Last week she linked up her no churn chocolate orange ice cream. I would love to tuck into a bowl now but I can't help thinking it would also make a good Festive ice cream later in the year.
Blood Orange Sorbet
Looking at the stunning colour of this orange sorbet from Lost in Food which for the images was made with blood oranges, its one I'm ear marking to make when they are in season again, but you don't have to wait until then because it can be made from any oranges or indeed other citrus fruits.
Cinnamon Honey and Kefir Popsicles
Keep Calm and Eat Ice cream, linked up pandan ice cream, ruby grapefruit and blood orange popsicles but it was these cinnamon honey and kefir popsicles that really caught my attention. They are full of probiotic goodness with warming cinnamon, natural honey and no refined sugar.
Salted Caramel Sauce
This salted caramel sauce from Taste Botanical was worth a mention too. I can just imagine how delicious it would be drizzled over chocolate or vanilla icecream.
Back To School
Given that after an extended break schools have just reopened or will be re opening within the next week or so you might also like to check out The Effortless Foodie's 20 Easy after school snacks and Easy Peasy Foodie's 45 Easy back to school dinners.
Nicole - haricoco.com
Thanks for such a great post and inspirations! Love the Cinnamon Honey and Kefir Popsicles idea, def. gotta try!!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I agree they do look rather good
Melissa Altman-Traub
Thanks for putting together all of these good ideas. I would never think to make blood orange sorbet.
Choclette
Just look at that beautiful empty beach. How wonderful. Wonderful too to be able to have a family get together for your father's birthday. We finally got civilly partnered this month, so had a small socially distanced lunch in our garden with our witnesses. Was fun, but a bit weird.
I didn't quite manage to get my planned ice cream recipe up on the blog, so I missed out there. But what a delightful bunch of frozen recipes.
Rebecca - Glutarama
Love the photo of your FIL and his 90th balloon. It made me happy sad actually, this year has a lot of making up to do in 2021. xxx
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I know what you mean Rebecca, it has been and still is a year we pretty much all will want to forget. It makes me a little sad too for another reason it would have been my dads 90th a week or so earlier but neither he or my mum are still alive.
Lesley Garden
What a great round-up, thank you for including our sorbet. I love any frozen dessert, ice cream, lollies and sorbets. Here's hoping the sun shines so that I can make some of these recipes (not that I need the excuse of sunshine to enjoy).
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Love the look of your sorbet. Would be nice to see sunshine again its a bit early for summer to be completely over but taking a look out the window right now and apart from the fact that the trees still have thier leaves it looks like mid winter with the rain lashing across the fields.
Donna
Lovely round up, the chocolate orange ice cream for me please! Hopefully there's a couple of sunny days left, not looking promising though is it?
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Nope it certainly isnt looking that promising Oh how the English weather can be so frustrating.
Janice Pattie
I hope we get more nice warm days for frozen treats before the autumn sets in properly. Some delicious looking recipes in the round up.
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
So do I fingers crossed
Jhuls
I have seen few friends since last month, but since some areas are still closed (no entry unless they do the covid test), I haven't managed to see some of them.
Anyway... Hi, Jacqui. I am glad to know that you managed to spend time with your loved ones. Please take care!
Thanks for hosting this week!
x,
Jhuls @ The Not So Creative Cook
http://thenotsocreativecook.com
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Thank you Jhuls you take care too. So pleased that you have seen some friends better than the none at all we got to see a few months back.