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starfire · Post by **starfire** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:38 am

Worked ok with explorer for me.

I may have to invest in that ice cream & sorbet maker. Sounds cool.

Love, Shirley

EastWestGirl · Post by **EastWestGirl** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:58 pm

Maggie Mudd makes a coconut milk based ice cream that is fabulous. It used to be available at Whole Foods markets in Northern California - no idea if it's available out of state. I'm now on the east coast so I can't even grab a pint to look at ingredients for allergens. :-(

Gloria · Post by **Gloria** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:29 pm

I've discovered that Ciao Bella makes a coconut sorbet which seems to be OK with me.

The ingredients are: water, coconut cream, coconut meat juice, organic evaporated cane juice, salt, citric acid, shredded coconut flakes, pectin.

No gums, or carregeenan, which can be problematic.

I also need to try some of the recipes on the Cuisinart site and the others mentioned in this thread.

Gloria

sarkin · Post by **sarkin** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:30 pm

Gloria! I am just so happy you can enjoy an ice cream you don't have to make yourself! I'm going to go out and buy stock in Ciao Bella. I griped about them in the past, as there was a period in NYC restaurant history where *every* sorbet or gelato or - whatever - was from Ciao Bella, in every restaurant... so getting the same dessert everywhere was kind of disappointing.

Some NYC restaurants actually contracted with them to make particular flavors.

(Looking back on this... I was already leaning away from baked goods - I never wanted a pastry after dinner, if I could have the sorbet.)

They are, despite my prior whining, EXCELLENT. I'm so glad they're available to you.

A few years ago we had an olive-oil flavored gelato (or sorbet??) from the Laboratorio del Gelato. If only those people did MC research instead of frozen-dessert science ;) I promise you, if I can create a DF/*F version... I won't just send the recipe - I'll FedEx a batch. (This may take some time in the kitchen lab!)

It feels as though this thread has resurfaced in the nick of seasonal time, before the summer heat waves.

xox/S

TooManyHats · Post by **TooManyHats** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:37 pm

Gloria wrote:I've discovered that Ciao Bella makes a coconut sorbet which seems to be OK with me.

The ingredients are: water, coconut cream, coconut meat juice, organic evaporated cane juice, salt, citric acid, shredded coconut flakes, pectin.

No gums, or carregeenan, which can be problematic.

I also need to try some of the recipes on the Cuisinart site and the others mentioned in this thread.

Gloria

Oh, this is good to know. I'm pretty sure that the Whole Foods I go to has this. Thank you!