The idea of pairing crushed pineapple sorbet with the coming-of-age rom com “Crush” came to me pretty easily as an installment in my Summer of Scoops.

This vegan, gluten-free and soy-free recipe makes 2 pints or 4-6 servings.

Ingredients
2 14-ounce cans crushed pineapple
1 teaspoon pineapple extract
0.125 cups vegan sugar
0.25 cups dried pineapple (chocolate-covered or plain, optional)

Instructions
Pour the crushed pineapple, pineapple extract and sugar into a blender.

Pulse until all the big chunks of pineapple are gone.

What happens next depends on your ice cream maker. If you have a more standard one, you’ll pull your chilled (for 24 hours) bowl out and make the sorbet.

If you have one like mine, you pour the pineapple mixture into two pints then freeze them for 24 hours.

After that time, you put the pint into your ice cream maker and let it do its magic on the sorbet setting. (Get more of my ice cream 101 tips here.)

You can either eat as is if you like the consistency, run through the re-spin cycle if it needs to smooth out or go to the mix-in stage if you have some dried pineapple to add.

I found some dark chocolate-dipped dried pineapple chunks to mix in. Once I finished the sorbet cycle, I made room in the center of my pint to pour in the dried pineapple, then I put the pint through the mix-in cycle.

If you have a more traditional ice cream maker, you just add the dried pineapple towards the end of the regular spin.

Scoop and serve with a showing of “Crush!” I also topped one of my plain bowls with some strawberry banana granola for a yummy breakfast.

The Easy Route
You can simplify this recipe to be only crushed pineapple running through your ice cream maker, even skipping the blender step.

Pineapple is also a more common sorbet flavor, so you might be able to find some at your local ice cream shop or grocery store. Have a favorite premade pineapple sorbet? Share those details in the comments.

The Pairing
If you’re looking for a fun, breezy watch to wrap up Pride Month and get summer started, look no further than the 2022 queer coming-of-age film “Crush.”

This movie popped on my radar because a friend of mine created some of the art one of the characters makes (shoutout to Chloe Brailsford).

When I saw the cast included some of my favorite younger actors (including Auliʻi Cravalho and Rowan Blanchard), I was even more intrigued. Plus I love a good queer coming-of-age story, as evidenced by many of my previous posts (last week’s “Hearts Beat Loud,” “Call Me by Your Name” and “Moonlight” for starters).

All of these factors drew me in but the performances and the fact that this film is unapologetically queer kept me watching. I say this a lot, but I would’ve loved to see a movie like this when I was a teenager.

I found many of the characters to be both immensely relatable and aspirational, putting their feelings, identity and interests out into the world and dealing with the consequences, good and bad.

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