Recipes By Gabriella Lewis
4 recipes found
Heirloom Tomato Sorbet
This tangy sorbet transforms peak-season heirloom tomatoes into a quenching savory-sweet treat. Flavorful and refreshing, it’s the platonic ideal of what summer sorbet should be. Reminiscent of a sweet gazpacho, the base comes together quickly: Add the tomatoes, sugar, water, lemon and a pinch of salt to a blender; purée the mixture until smooth; then pass it through a fine sieve directly into an ice cream maker. (No ice cream maker? This base makes an excellent granita; see Tip.) The quality of your sorbet or granita directly reflects your tomatoes, so opt for the ripest, most fragrant ones you can find.
Strawberry Matcha Latte
This colorful, easy-to-make drink — popularized by various bubble-tea chains and trending on TikTok in the spring of 2023 — combines matcha, a powdered green tea traditionally consumed in parts of East Asia, with strawberries, a beloved summer fruit. Served over ice, with distinct layering, the delightful balance of macerated fresh strawberries on the bottom, your choice of milk in the center and earthy matcha on the top creates a vibrant and harmonious flavor combination.
Sweet Cream Cold Foam
This creamy whipped topping, introduced by popular beverage chains Gong Cha and Starbucks in 2014, began trending on social media in early 2023. It comes together rather quickly with three simple ingredients: heavy whipping cream, milk and simple syrup. What sets this recipe apart from a sweetened whipped cream is the addition of cold milk. Bearing a striking resemblance to the topping on iced einspänner and other coffee drinks, or the cheese foam served on top of milk teas, this sweet, fluffy mixture sits atop an iced coffee, a delightful frothy substitute for traditional liquid cream or dairy additions. The recipe lends itself to flavorings: Simply add a drop of vanilla extract, a splash of rose water or ground cinnamon before frothing.
Limonada (Brazilian Lemonade)
Creamy, frosty and tart, this popular Brazilian drink is a fantastic refreshment for a hot day. In Brazil, it’s also known as limonada Suíça, which translates to Swiss lemonade, because it typically includes sweetened condensed milk, which was marketed by the Swiss company Nestlé in Brazil in the 1940s. Sweetened condensed milk is essential to Brazilian sweets, including desserts like brigadeiros. A shelf-stable dairy product that doesn’t curdle in the presence of acid, it gets blended here with limes, sugar, ice and water to make this tangy beverage creamy. Limonada Suíça always includes condensed milk, but limonada sometimes leaves it out. And even though it’s called lemonade, it often uses limes since the word limão is often used interchangeably for lemons and limes in Portuguese. Pulsing the entire lime into this drink adds an extra layer of brightness and depth from the rind. This drink takes only minutes to blend and is best served immediately.