When my adorable 84-year old father died in 2006 after a blessedly short illness, and I had to clean out his house, I found a number of unopened bottles of Dewar's Blended Scotch Whisky, which presumably people had been giving him for Christmas presents since my mother had died. At the same time a friend of mine who lived in Palm Springs, CA, sent me a box containing forty Meyer lemons plucked from the tree in her yard. I juiced all the lemons and froze the juice, and for as many Saturday nights as long as everything lasted, we had Scotch sours and toasted my dad.
There is a recipe on FOOD52 called First Night in Florence Spaghetti, which is delicious and has 1/2 a Meyer lemon as an ingredient. It's a good use for that lemon!
I love this. And it sounds like you and your mom have a lovely relationship, which is such a gift. Advice on preserving lemons? I feel like it never quite works out. But I will poke around and see what I can find.
I make salt preserved lemons regularly and in large quantity (1/2 gallon jar). I put everything except the seeds in my vitamix blender to make the paste, which I then put in a squeeze bottle for ease of application. We often swap out the fresh lemons in Tamar’s olive oil braised fennel recipe, a family favorite for ages, for the salty lemon paste. Yum!
SO MUCH LEMON INSPIRATION. Thank you Tamar, and thank you to your mum. I am looking very seriously at the jar of preserved lemons in my pantry and the lemon trees in my garden and thinking tasty thoughts
When my adorable 84-year old father died in 2006 after a blessedly short illness, and I had to clean out his house, I found a number of unopened bottles of Dewar's Blended Scotch Whisky, which presumably people had been giving him for Christmas presents since my mother had died. At the same time a friend of mine who lived in Palm Springs, CA, sent me a box containing forty Meyer lemons plucked from the tree in her yard. I juiced all the lemons and froze the juice, and for as many Saturday nights as long as everything lasted, we had Scotch sours and toasted my dad.
There is a recipe on FOOD52 called First Night in Florence Spaghetti, which is delicious and has 1/2 a Meyer lemon as an ingredient. It's a good use for that lemon!
Lovely story!
I love this. And it sounds like you and your mom have a lovely relationship, which is such a gift. Advice on preserving lemons? I feel like it never quite works out. But I will poke around and see what I can find.
I make salt preserved lemons regularly and in large quantity (1/2 gallon jar). I put everything except the seeds in my vitamix blender to make the paste, which I then put in a squeeze bottle for ease of application. We often swap out the fresh lemons in Tamar’s olive oil braised fennel recipe, a family favorite for ages, for the salty lemon paste. Yum!
SO MUCH LEMON INSPIRATION. Thank you Tamar, and thank you to your mum. I am looking very seriously at the jar of preserved lemons in my pantry and the lemon trees in my garden and thinking tasty thoughts
I will be making and applying that lemon paste liberally soon.