"Let's have that watermelon ice cream thing that Gaga used to make for you for my birthday party on Friday!"
"Okay, that sounds great!" Cut to me at the grocery store up the road from the house searching for sorbet. Okay, the first thing I need is lime sorbet. Lime sorbet... Hmmm...Maybe it's in another aisle? Where the heck could it be? Oh well. Next, vanilla ice cream. That's easy. Now for the raspberry sorbet. Where is it? What the heck kind of a store doesn't have raspberry sorbet? Dreyer's? Breyer's? Friendly's?...I don't want to pay it, but Ben and Jerry's? Come on!!! Where the heck is all the sorbet? There's watermelon sorbet, but would that taste right? I mean I know I'm making a watermelon shaped thing, but raspberry and chocolate that's good, I don't know if watermelon and chocolate would work the same together? Could be good, but maybe not. Ah! Is this...YES it is...Lime sorbet. Let's see the ingredients...High fructose corn syrup...on the label twice!!! Seriously, twice? Winn Dixie? This is a Stop and Shop what is sorbet from Winn Dixie doing in here. Is Winn Dixie even still around? Oh well, it's lime, it's green, it will have to do. I am now intentionally spending money on something that I am going to willingly serve to my daughter and her friends that contains high fructose corn syrup. Whatever, you can't win em all! I'll just check out and go to another store to try to find some freakin raspberry sorbet.
Second store. It's a Shaws. Alright, so I've got the lime sorbet, vanilla ice cream and chocolate chips. Surely this store will have raspberry sorbet. Okay, now we're talking. Lot's more sorbet. Orange, lemon, coconut, yummy! But where is the raspberry? Ah, okay, here we go, wait, no that's black raspberry. Huh, but on the picture it looks red...It's probably red and just tastes like black raspberries. Here's hoping! Check out and go home.
At home. Alrighty, let's get this first layer done. Lime sorbet gets dumped into the bowl but it's not cooperating. Half of it is all melty and dripy and the other half is too frozen and I can't get it to spread around at all. Oh well, I'll put it in the freezer and let it get a little more solid and just work on mixing the raspberry stuff with the chocolate chips. As I open up the raspberry though I realize that it is indeed actually BLACK raspberry sorbet, totally not red or pink at all. Not at all like a watermelon. Great. Back to the store.
Store three! Baskin Robbins. Nothin.
Store FOUR! A different Stop and Shop. Maybe this store will have a different selection. Mixed berry gelato? Hmmm... Strawberry sorbet. Maybe. Raspberry sorbet with high fructose corn surup. ARgh! What do I do??? (By the way...there is actually a premade watermelon ice cream mold sold at this store, I just can't bring myself to buy it. I just feel too lame not home making my kids birthday dessert. It just doesn't feel right. So, instead I am driving all over town using gas that is costing us a million bazillion dollars to find just the right sorbet that apparently does not exist in this crazy state.) So, whatever. I'll go with the strawberry.
Back at home. The lime comes out of the freezer and it doing much better. This might actually work out after all. Okay, lookin good. Stick that back in the freezer and start working with this strawberry sorbet? Sorbet right? What! This is strawberry ICE CREAM!!! It's white!!! NO! No no no no no! It's not red at all. NOt watermelony at all! Ahhh!!!!! Dude, seriously, what am I doing? Now I guess I'll have to go back to the store and get that watermelon sorbet from the first store. I don't really have any other options besides buying the premade mold, which I guess I will have to buy if the watermelon stuff doesn't work out. Sheesh!
So, that's where I'm at now. I am about to go back out to the store to buy the watermelon sorbet. Then to the airport to pick up my mom, then back to the house to finish making the dessert. What will we do with all this ice cream now? I now have in my freezer lime sorbet, vanilla ice cream, black raspberry sorbet and strawberry ice cream. And I guess if I can't manage to make this very simple children's dessert I will also have a premade store bought watermelon ice cream mold in there tomorrow morning. Aside from the fortune I've just spent on frozen dessert we aren't even supposed to be eating this kind of junk right now anyway. Oh, birthdays.
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