Fall Dessert: Meyer Lemon Sorbet - Eat - Drink - Garden with Valerie

By Valerie, November 8, 2012. Photos by Valerie

My Meyer lemon tree was already bearing fruit before the move, so when it gifted me lemons, I made sorbet! It seemed an appropriate way to say goodbye to our citrus trees.

You really don?t need to be intimidated by making ice cream, gelato or sorbet.?All you need is an ice cream maker and some quality ingredients to make knock-your-socks-off frozen sweets.?Actually, fresh sorbet is a great way to use up extra fruit?and?impress your guests. It may seem like a big process, but trust me it?s totally easy. Read your recipe carefully and just follow the steps. And always store your ice cream insert in the freezer ? then it?s ready for you anytime you need it.

If you want to feel fancy, buy a stash of those pint sized paper ice cream containers. I find mine at the not-so-fancy, but kind of fabulous,?Smart and Final.

Meyer Lemon Sorbetto

Adapted from a recipe found in?Making Artisan Gelato by Torrance Kopfer

Zest of three Meyer lemons

1 1/3 cups of sugar

2 3/4 cups water

1 1/2 cup lemon juice

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Place the lemon zest and the sugar in a bowl of a food processer and pulse until it yields fine bits of lemon zest.?The mixture will be slightly clumpy due to the moisture from the lemon zest.?Transfer to a clean bowl and cover with plastic wrap.?Set aside for thirty minutes to intensify the flavor.

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Place the water, lemon juice and sugar mixture in a medium-sized heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat and stir until the sugar dissolves.?Once the sugar dissolves completely remove from heat and set aside to cool for about one hour. Next, strain the mixture with a fine mesh strainer, pour into a clean container and chill in the refrigerator until cool or for up to 8 hours (if it?s longer, that?s fine).?When it?s ready, pour the chilled mixture into the ice-cream maker and chill according to the manufacturer?s specification.

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Remove from the ice cream maker once it?s the desired consistency and store in a container of choice.

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One of my favorite uses for this sorbet is my Lemon Bomb cocktail. I like to hand one to my guests when they walk in the door, it?s delicious, refreshing and warms them up for a fun night.

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To make a Lemon Bomb Cocktail:

Scoop a small ball or two of sorbet into the prettiest cocktail glass you can find (I use shallow champagne glasses), fresh lemon zest and a shot of your best vodka.

Source: http://eat-drink-garden.com/2012/11/fall-dessert-meyer-lemon-sorbet/

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When Is a Workers Comp Claim Not a Workers Comp ... - JD Supra

Our preview of the civil cases on the Illinois Supreme Court's November oral argument docket continues with Skokie Castings, Inc. v. Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund.?Our initial look at Skokie Castings, just after review was granted, is here.

Skokie Castings arises from a severe workplace injury which permanently disabled the employee.?At the time, the employer was a qualified self-insurer.?After the Illinois Industrial Commission confirmed that the employee was totally disabled, the employer paid up to its retention amount.?At that point, the employer's excess carrier took over.?But then the excess carrier went broke and was placed in receivership.

Like most states, Illinois has a system in place to protect injured workers when a workers comp insurer goes bankrupt.?As part of the price of doing business in Illinois, all insurers contribute to the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund.?When a company begins the liquidation process, its obligations are taken over by the Fund.?According to the Insurance Code (215 ILCS 5/537.2), "such obligations shall not . . . exceed $300,000, except that this limitation shall not apply to any workers' compensation claims."

So was the employer's claim against the Fund a "workers' compensation claim"??The Fund thought not; they paid up to the $300,000 ceiling and then stopped.

The employer filed a declaratory judgment action, seeking a declaration that the Fund had improperly stopped paying, and the $300,000 ceiling didn't apply.?The parties filed cross-motions for summary judgment; the trial court granted plaintiff's motion, holding that the claim, despite being filed by the self-insured employer, was a "workers compensation claim" within the meaning of the statute.

The Appellate Court affirmed.?The Court found that several sections of the Insurance Code noted that the Fund was intended to protect not only claimants but policyholders as well.?Following a New Mexico decision rendered under a similar statutory structure, In re Delinquency Proceedings Against Mission Insurance Co., the Court held that if the legislature had intended to exclude claims by self-insured employers whose excess carriers had gone bankrupt, it would have done so.?Since the statute contained no such language, the reasonable inference was that the legislature intended that such claims should fall within "workers compensation claims," and thus be exempt from the payment ceiling.

Skokie Castings will be argued during the 9:00 a.m. session of the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday, November 20.

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/when-is-a-workers-comp-claim-not-a-worke-83534/

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Sarah Silverman shows soft side in "Wreck-It Ralph"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Sarah Silverman has built her career largely on raunchy jokes about sex and other decidedly adult topics.

So it may come as a surprise that a woman famous for an R-rated song about sleeping with actor Matt Damon and for pro-Obama viral videos is now voicing the role of an adorable 9-year-old girl in a Walt Disney family film.

The animated film, "Wreck-It Ralph," comes out in U.S. movie theaters on Friday. It is about a video game character named Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly) who is tired of always being the bad guy. He goes on a game-hopping journey to prove he can be a hero.

Silverman plays the precocious Vanellope von Schweetz who lives in the candy-themed racing game Sugar Rush. Considered a "glitch" by the other kids because she flickers, Vanellope is an outcast who just wants a chance to race with the other girls.

At first glance, the casting of a stand-up comic like Silverman might seem an odd choice. But Silverman told Reuters she knows all about the tough-on-the-outside/sensitive-on-the-inside Vanellope.

"I relate to everything about her," the 41-year-old said about her character. "I know this girl. The scrappiness and the feeling of being on the outside, looking in and wanting to play. And that what we are most ashamed of - the 'glitch' in each of us - can be our super power, our greatest asset, if we let it."

In Silverman's case, she cites her bed-wetting as her own "glitch," which she chronicled in her 2010 comic memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee."

"I was a bedwetter until I was in my teens," she said. "(I took something) from my childhood that I thought would be my greatest shame and let it inform the greatest part of my life. I went in to comedy and was not scared because I had suffered great humiliations growing up. Bombing in front of strangers on stage? Who cares! The stakes got lower for me because I had nothing to lose."

Silverman said she was excited to potentially become a role model to kids, "especially girls," via Vanellope. The cartoonish perkiness that's part of her persona has already landed Silverman guest spots on kids' shows like "Yo Gabba Gabba."

In fact, Silverman says she has plenty of comedic material for kids and is pushing further into the youth market with a soon-to-be released app.

"I have an app coming out called 'Uncle Sarah' and it's for toddlers and babies - I can babysit your kids on your iPad!" she joked. "There's all this interactive stuff. There's a song I wrote. I'm excited about it because it's so weird."

She'd also like her own kids - someday. "I'm baby crazy but I think I'm going to adopt when I'm at a young grandma age," she said. "I love kids so much but I love my life and I love taking off at a moment's notice. I want to have kids when it's all I want and I can give them the undivided attention they deserve."

Next up, Silverman plans on filming a cable TV special - her first in seven years - for HBO that will involve both stand-up and film pieces.

Although Silverman points out that she'll never feel "total job security" in her profession - her NBC pilot "Susan 313" was not picked up for the fall 2012 TV season, for example - she calls her ability to work in comedy, make videos and perform stand-up as "the gift that keeps on giving."

"As long as I always work on it, change it, be willing to bomb, recalibrate who I am and reflect that on stage, it can last."

(Reporting by Zorianna Kit; Editing by Gary Hill)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sarah-silverman-shows-soft-side-wreck-ralph-185619817.html

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