Peach Basil Sorbet inspired by a lost manuscript…
My mom recently emailed me the contents of an old thumb drive. She told me, “I found this thumb drive cleaning out a drawer. It has the cookbooks you wrote in when you were 10 and 11, do you remember those? And do you remember the way you would act out your own cooking videos in the kitchen?”
I plugged in the thumb drive and began scrolling through the two 60-page Word documents. I created them originally to resemble, as closely as possible, what I imagined a real cookbook manuscript looked like.
I scrolled through the documents, reading recipes that I had daydreamed with exotic ingredients I had discovered on The Food Network (Harissa Glazed Halibut) , and recipes I had made up myself with full creative license (like a Peanut Butter and Apple Juice Smoothie…).
I’ve had the realization before that my work is what I dreamed about when I was younger. But that moment staring at those manuscripts, I felt my passion for food come full-circle. I believe that the endless hours I spent daydreaming about sharing my recipes with others was not just daydreaming…. it was somehow shaping my future by creatively visualizing what I wanted to do.
This recipe is inspired by my 11-year-old cookbook daydreams. In one old manuscript, I found a recipe for a Basil Sorbet. It was definitely one of those exotic recipes that I had not actually made, but which sounded magically sophisticated and unusual. And this final recipe is magically sophisticated and unusual. It tastes like springtime.
- 1 lb. frozen sliced peaches
- 2 to 3 Tbs. raw honey (get a free jar from Thrive here)
- ⅓ cup full fat coconut milk, available here
- 3 Tbs. torn fresh basil
- Place all ingredients except the basil into a high powered blender. I use and recommend a Ninja Blender, which is as powerful as a Vitamix but a fraction of the cost.
- Blend until a creamy, soft-serve consistency. Add the basil and blend until it is dispersed in small flecks.
- Freeze for 30 minutes, until the consistency of soft-serve. Or, freeze overnight for a firmer sorbet.

Can almond milk or another type besides coconut milk be used? Terribly allergic to coconuts of any varied.
Thank you
Certainly, you can use whatever milk or cream you desire.
Thanks for publishing such useful information.
This sounds wonderful…I love the flavors of fresh herbs with fruit. Basil is really nice with strawberries too! Did you just pop this in the freezer or use an ice cream maker. I have the ice cream maker attachment for my Kitchen Aid mixer…wondering if that would help give it a nice consistency.
Can the Ninja blender make nut flour?
I love this ice cream, it is amazing! Thank you!
Great post guys. There’s a lot of good reading to be done in the sites you link out
to.. Something to aspire to!