I actually bought it to make some cereal milk ice cream from the Milk Bar cookbook. If you do get an ice cream maker, please also get David Lebovitz’s book The Perfect Scoop. I think Melanie would back me up on this rec.

By the way, I love the new header and body-font choice.

I feel the same way about the in-season fruit and over-buying. I did the same with strawberries and peaches this year, worried that it would be my last chance to make anything with them. Fortunately I now have a few jars of strawberry jam and a whole bunch of peach jam. I also got a huge bag of Italian plums from a friend who didn’t know what to do with them, so I turned them into a couple of Plum Cakes.

I love your idea, though, for turning out fruit leather. What a great idea! Now if only I could make a batch that looks anywhere near as beautiful as the batch you made, I could turn that leather into cash.

I always thought that fruit leather was some long complex process, but you laid it down like a game of gold fish and now I’m making my shopping list for it. Thank you!