Life Handed Me Lemons
Dec. 24th, 2019 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenBack in 2014 I bought some citrus trees - the key lime, being a key lime, died. They're fussy like that. The calamondin and Meyer lemon survived, and eventually started to thrive. You might have seen me write about calamondins in the past. Here's a brief article about them. They're also a sort of old-school Florida citrus and you can eat them whole. The rinds are oddly sweet while the flesh is much more sour. They're the size of key limes and just as tedious and fiddly to juice, but the effort is worth it, as they make amazingly good cakes and frostings, and I've used the juice to marinade both pork and tofu. Anyway, mine started bearing fruit early on, so for a couple of years we've had calamondin desserts around this time of year. But this past season, the Meyer lemon started catching up.
That's ten pounds of lemons.
Today I made a vegan lemon curd. It was absurdly easy since there were no egg yolks involved. I'll be making more, of course. Tomorrow I plan on lemon cornmeal muffins with crumb topping (again, the last batch was great) and possibly a lemon tart or something similar. The lemon curd was terrific on coconut vanilla ice cream. Although I had an accident with the microplane grater so technically the curd's not vegan anymore.
A nice lemon poppyseed bread might be good. There are some savory dishes I know I can make, like a lemon glazed tofu I saw a few days ago that suggested pairing it with brown rice and a green veg - it sounds like roasted broccoli would be perfect. What I really want to try is lemon bars but not sure how to go about making the crust as I can't find vegan baking sticks and I don't want the flavor of coconut in this. I'll figure something out.
So. Many. Lemons.
That's ten pounds of lemons.
Today I made a vegan lemon curd. It was absurdly easy since there were no egg yolks involved. I'll be making more, of course. Tomorrow I plan on lemon cornmeal muffins with crumb topping (again, the last batch was great) and possibly a lemon tart or something similar. The lemon curd was terrific on coconut vanilla ice cream. Although I had an accident with the microplane grater so technically the curd's not vegan anymore.
A nice lemon poppyseed bread might be good. There are some savory dishes I know I can make, like a lemon glazed tofu I saw a few days ago that suggested pairing it with brown rice and a green veg - it sounds like roasted broccoli would be perfect. What I really want to try is lemon bars but not sure how to go about making the crust as I can't find vegan baking sticks and I don't want the flavor of coconut in this. I'll figure something out.
So. Many. Lemons.
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Date: 2019-12-25 07:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-26 12:02 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm going to wind up needing to give some away. But right now it's kind of fun to just enjoy the bounty.