Watermelon Sorbet (dessert)

My 7-year old's creativity has been exploding in all sorts of directions this Summer, more than ever before. He came up with this recipe for a watermelon dessert, ALL by himself. We made kulfi a few days ago, and possibly inspired by that, he suddenly said, "Why don't we freeze fruit and beat it into a sorbet?" We chopped up a lot of watermelon yesterday, and he decided to freeze it. Today, we took it out and it looked like this:




The juice inside the fruit had crstallised, and there were ice crystals on top too. He wanted to mixie it, and we did. He decided to add orange juice (store bought) and lemon juice (organic fresh squeezed lemon juice is amazing). We added about 1/2 a cup lemon juice, and 1/2 cup orange juice, to 3 cups frozen watermelon chunks. We added some basil leaves (from his "herb garden" - which basically amounts to 3 potted herbs in the dining room, that he keeps alive). And mixie-d it all together in our "National" blender that's really outlasted its expected lifetime. The result was this AMAZING dessert:




A's new idea is to try this with blueberries tomorrow. WHAT a great idea!!! To squeeze lemons, he used a lemon squeezer (the painted metallic thing which presses out the juice). I did the actual blending.