Comments on: When the World Gives You Lemons…

By: kandy

kandy — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:29:22 +0000

I like eating them with salt too!
Ever since my parents gave them to me as a baby (to see my funny reaction), I have been scarfing them up! I used to come home from high school, grab a bag of lemons, a sleeve of saltines, and a shaker of salt and watch my ‘soaps’
Love em!!!!

By: loveandbutter (Jamie)

loveandbutter (Jamie) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:32:10 +0000

I love lemons! My recent favorite summer drink is a raspberry-lemon “spritzer”. Crushed fresh berries, lemon juice, club soda, and some vodka for us grown-ups
http://bakedwithloveandbutter.blogspot.com/2010/07/raspberry-lemon-summer-spritzer.html

By: KarenJ

KarenJ — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:03:14 +0000

Forgot to mention that since we ar currently being inundated with plums I just tried out a fabulous lemon plum cake. Bonus – it only take s a half cup of sugar.

By: KarenJ

KarenJ — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:57:43 +0000

Living where lemons are abundant I use them all the time. After all, it’s not such a big deal to step down the road and pick a few off the tree. Lemon zest goes into herbed rice. (I love raspers!) Zest and juice go onto chicken, shrimp and local fish. Lemons and salt clean copper and brass. And big bowls of them, along with oranges, tangerines, mandarins, etc. ( groves are also on my road) sit around looking beautiful in my kitchen. (I have to confess, it always astounds me when I go into town – only 6km. away – and see people actually buying the aforementioned two citruses. I do have to buy grapefruits and limes because they like a very different soil from their cousins the lemons and the various members of the orange family.)

By: maldo1975

maldo1975 — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:12:48 +0000

Me too!!! I love lemmons sectioned and eaten with salt.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:49:05 +0000

During the heat of this summer I’ve discovered something wonderful. Squeezing the juice of a whole lemon into plain water! Why was it a “discovery”? For this you have to understand that my brain shuts off at temperatures past 25C and when it was 35C on my patio I was a walking zombie. After drinking a glass of lemon water – I swear to you it is true – it was like my brain cleared!!! and for a while I was functional again. WOW! cheap and healthy meds what could be better?

By: westcoastswedishgirl

westcoastswedishgirl — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:04:36 +0000

How could I pick just one favorite way to use lemons!? They are fabulous, in every way! Even my teenage boy likes them.

By: Irina

Irina — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:54:43 +0000

On every salad and almost any veggie! Abundantly! And also along with thyme and garlic for a wonderful chicken in the oven recipe. Mmmm…

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:00:56 +0000

I love lemonade! I steep strips of the lemon peel in with the simple syrup that I make as the sweetner for my lemonade..it gives it deeper flavor without bits of zest floating in the drink.

My favorite way to infuse a subtle lemon flavor into many desserts is to vigorously rub strips of lemon peel with the sugar in the recipe. It perfumes the sugar perfectly and freshens the flavor in many desserts.

I rub the inside of the mixing bowl in which I whip egg whites with a wedge of lemon then wipe the bowl lightly with a clean cloth. It insures that any grease is wiped out and, as a bonus, it works to stablize the whites instead of needing cream of tartar.

By: landpandg

landpandg — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:08:02 +0000

Lemons are one of those things that make life just that much more pleasant. What could be better than something that tastes fantastic, can be used innumerable ways and is health to boot. Your recipes make my mouth water.