Ice Cream Maker!!

Veteran's Day was also 50% off everything at Value Village day. I took advantage of this, and my luck, and obtained a functional, though small, electric ice cream maker for $6.
I have collected several recipes but so far only tried this one.

Lime Sorbet

1 cup sugar
1 cup key lime preserves (I couldn't find this, but I did find something called "lime curd," and it seemed to work just as well.)
4 cups lime flavored club soda or seltzer
1 lemon, zested and juiced
1 lime, zested and juiced

Combine sugar, preserves and 1 cup of the soda in a medium saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar and preserves are melted. Add citrus juice and zest. Stir in the remaining soda, move to a clean, lidded container and chill thoroughly, 2 to 3 hours. Turn mixture in ice cream maker and process according to makers instructions or until mixture reaches the consistency of a firm slush. Return mixture to lidded container and harden in freezer 1 hour before serving. If sorbet is to be held frozen for longer than 2 hours, move from freezer to refrigerator for about half an hour before serving. If you'd like a more assertive sorbet, double the amount of citrus zest.
(from Alton Brown on the Food Network)

My ice cream maker is too small for this batch - I shall halve the batch next time. I got impatient and took the first batch out too fast; then when I put the second batch in, the bowl had warmed up too much so the second batch didn't firm up right either, even though I stretched the cord across the counter and put the whole thing, motor running, into the freezer for at least half an hour. I put the two batches in the freezer in separate bowls.
Eventually I decided that I didn't want to wait for it to finish solidifying so I just put some lime slush in a glass and added some vodka and it was fabulous. Who needs sorbet when you have lime vodka squishee?
I'm taking the ice cream maker with me for Thanksgiving and I might try the lime sorbet again, or I might try some orange sorbet or similar to go with cranberry bread/cake thing that I am thinking about making.