When I register for my unwedding, the Paco Jet will be somewhere at the top of my wishlist. It's a genius ice cream/sorbet maker which shave-purees anything you can deep freeze into a sort of ultrafine granité. Chikalicious uses it for their frozen desserts, like the flavorful corn ice cream that accompanied my cherry soup, or the smooth, milky quenelle of sweetly clean vanilla sorbet nestled atop the little cup of espresso gelee. The fresh peach sorbet is a contradiction in senses -- it tastes like a bite out of a soft but icy sunripened peach.
Imagine the possibilities! Apple sorbet that captures the fleeting perfume of crisp fall Macouns! Scoops of frozen-pureed celery and fresh horseradish in an icy bloody mary! Fresh arugula sorbet with parmesan and beef carpaccio!
Not that I'd actually make those things. I just love the idea.
I know the miracles that machine can make only from Chickalicious... I had a quince gelee from there once- WOW!!!!!!
Next time you go into Chickalicious, ask Chicka the significance of that machine to her life.