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Food, Glorious Food
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Lemon cookies are this weeks baking item.
We've got a lemons to go through before they spoil. Lemon cookies and lemon bites are two of my favorite tart desserts. Seems like I've got some inspiration now. Thank you.
Quick tip: If you replace some of the liquid in your glaze with limoncello, it'll be even better.
If I end up with too many lemons I make a light lemon syrup (not the kind w/ added cornstarch) and pretend we've arrived at lemonade season... stuff keeps in the fridge at least a week and makes it easy to mix up just one quick glass of lemonade at a time.
Use lemon juice in a French dressing, rather than cider vinegar, or sherry vinegar, or wine vinegar.
@LizKat's idea of lemon syrup is brilliant, too.
And slices of lemon are served with weissbier in Germany - why reserve lemons for cocktails or spirits? They are brilliant in lager, IPAs or wheat beers.
Although that does sound nice and summery, I really don't like it. When I lived in Germany, they went through a phase of adding slices of lemon to their wheat beers. I had to make sure my order was "no lemon". They seem to have stopped now, or at least they have in the bars I go to. I say "go to" but I mean "used to go to before they shut the border down".
If I had to guess there's probably a few hundred left on the trees. Sadly, nearly all of our neighbors have their own trees. There was some trend in buying your own trees a decade or two ago so literally everyone we know has fruit trees outside of their own citrus. I'll probably salt pack a good portion as I enjoy chicken tagine.
We only need a few cold nights during flowering season to set all the buds. Heavy rains help, too. Otherwise on a dry year I'd assume I'd have to soak the grounds with a few dozen gallons of water every other week. Farms have a unique method of embankments and channeling to "flood" the field and let it soak into the ground. Maybe a foot of water at most.
Always do. Been using it in our poppy seed dressing with a splash of cava instead of the typical vinegar choices. There's been some amazing organic strawberries in the stores. Great with greens and the dressing.
I've been having some horseradish each morning with my breakfast. Good to feel your head expand and contract several times over before 7 AM.
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Oh. Margaritas. There's a good option. Should get us through the myriad of virtual calls tomorrow.
Each to their own, but, lemons are a store cupboard staple for me (along with garlic and olive oil); I love them, and can eat them raw, thoroughly enjoy them juiced, cheerfully devour the lemon slices found in my drink at the end of an evening, absolutely adore lemon tart, lemon meringue, the scent of lemons.....lemon in dressing,
Actually, in spring and summer, I usually stuff a roast chicken with lemon (rather than the more usual somewhat bullying sage and rosemary stuffing, which is fine in winter).........(yum), and add the squeezed lemon juices to the olive oil (and garlic and thyme) in which the chicken cooks...
Wow you do love lemons, I agree too with a couple exceptions that I have never tried. 😆
That is interesting about chicken and lemon, will discussed that with the housekeeper tomorrow; it is certainly food-for-thought.
I must admit that the idea (of stuffing a chicken with lemons) comes from Nigel Slater, but it works very well, and gives a roast chicken a wonderful flavour (when cooked with thyme, - perhaps rosemary, - but certainly garlic and olive oil.)
I have also - riffing on this idea in a culinary sense - used both oranges and lemons in this context.
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Meant to post this the other day, just because I recall someone else posting some guacamole - made some homemade, the avocados were just perfect, that 12-24 hour window where they get perfectly ripe, and extra rich, but before they started to get funky, a nice beefsteak tomato, some fresh jalapenos, good squeeze of lime (and important, though some people leave it out, salt).
Looks amazing, and, I imagine, tastes absolutely mouth-watering.
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Finally got around to making the doubletree cookies after Hilton released the recipe.
It was _very_ good, and the 'cados have been superb, I usually get some that are about 3 days before being perfect to eat (and popping them into the fridge can slow that down if needed ...). It was so good last week, we made more
Here's the avocados from earlier today, cut and ready to pry out of their skin:
Ah, nice.
My recipe was nearly identical: just swapped purple onion and cayenne pepper instead of jalapeño.
I miss guacamole>, but I am fine with admiring from a far.
Premade guacamole almost killed me in 2018.>>Pretty please wash your avocados well before you cut into them.
It was _very_ good, and the 'cados have been superb, I usually get some that are about 3 days before being perfect to eat (and popping them into the fridge can slow that down if needed ...). It was so good last week, we made more
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Can one write "Yum"?
My eye crossed the thread about purchase of "three things that improved your quality of life" this morning. This during a coffee break after a pantry check, and after pulling out some items that somehow slipped past a previous check and have passed their expiry dates (even though they're still fine to use). Have to bring those out to the main cupboards and get on with using them or else.. gulp... just tossing them out.
But sitting down for this break and seeing that thread, I was laughing and figuring yeah the purchase of these items really "improved my life", obviously ...since they've been sitting there taking up space for two years past when I'd ordinarily have hauled them out and given them to local food pantry with a year left before "best used by" date. So that thread was clearly not the thread for my current experience.
So herewith, today's haul of "food, glorious food":
1. a tin of instant coffee, the kind that has nondairy creamer and i think some sweetener already in it. I understand why I bought it, just not sure it's high value since I usually stock things I know I can rely on in an emergency, i.e., I am not a fan of being a guinea pig under duress. So ima try it today, it's only a month past best-by date. Hope I don't get hooked on it, it's bad enough I usually make coffee in a pour-over now and rarely bother with my French press. Plus I dunno about the nondairy creamer in it and the sweetener. I like my coffee unsweetened and with hot milk in it. I suppose I told myself that in a pinch one can't be fussy. This is going to be a hard second sell, to be honest.
2. a tin of eggplant caponata. Four of them, to be exact. Now I really love this stuff made from scratch but not sure I'd buy tins of it again since not once did it occur to me to run to the back pantry and fetch one of these out when the word caponata crossed my mind. Not.Once. What came to me in those moments was putting eggplant on the shop list. Welp, time to find out how it works as fake pizza topping because that's going to be its fate. Or fake bruschetta should I happen to have some decent bread in the house.
3. a container of something purporting to taste like bits of bacon, that's meant to garnish a salad or be sprinkled into a tuna melt or whatever. Think it's just textured soy with some food coloring and artificial flavoring. 'Nuf said and this is going straight to the trash, filed under what was I thinking. I do have my limits on what I will eat, even in an emergency. I'd rather catch and stir-fry ants before sampling this stuff. How I know this is I threw out another container of this once, having tried it. Sigh... slow learner.
But sitting down for this break and seeing that thread, I was laughing and figuring yeah the purchase of these items really "improved my life", obviously ...since they've been sitting there taking up space for two years past when I'd ordinarily have hauled them out and given them to local food pantry with a year left before "best used by" date. So that thread was clearly not the thread for my current experience.
So herewith, today's haul of "food, glorious food":
1. a tin of instant coffee, the kind that has nondairy creamer and i think some sweetener already in it. I understand why I bought it, just not sure it's high value since I usually stock things I know I can rely on in an emergency, i.e., I am not a fan of being a guinea pig under duress. So ima try it today, it's only a month past best-by date. Hope I don't get hooked on it, it's bad enough I usually make coffee in a pour-over now and rarely bother with my French press. Plus I dunno about the nondairy creamer in it and the sweetener. I like my coffee unsweetened and with hot milk in it. I suppose I told myself that in a pinch one can't be fussy. This is going to be a hard second sell, to be honest.
2. a tin of eggplant caponata. Four of them, to be exact. Now I really love this stuff made from scratch but not sure I'd buy tins of it again since not once did it occur to me to run to the back pantry and fetch one of these out when the word caponata crossed my mind. Not.Once. What came to me in those moments was putting eggplant on the shop list. Welp, time to find out how it works as fake pizza topping because that's going to be its fate. Or fake bruschetta should I happen to have some decent bread in the house.
3. a container of something purporting to taste like bits of bacon, that's meant to garnish a salad or be sprinkled into a tuna melt or whatever. Think it's just textured soy with some food coloring and artificial flavoring. 'Nuf said and this is going straight to the trash, filed under what was I thinking. I do have my limits on what I will eat, even in an emergency. I'd rather catch and stir-fry ants before sampling this stuff. How I know this is I threw out another container of this once, having tried it. Sigh... slow learner.
For some reason, I keep meaning to visit that thread, and somehow, have not gotten around to doing so.
It is not as though I am short of time at the moment.......
Nooooooo......
Not instant coffee.....
Now, I also like my coffee (with the single, striking exception of espresso) unsweetened with hot milk...whereas, espresso does sometimes call for sugar.
But, it must be real coffee........these days, I am more than happy to see LavAzza Rosso on my local supermarket shelves, as the lovely artisan roasters and cafés - where I normally buy my coffee - are still all shut.
Caponata, I absolutely love.
Aubergines, (eggplant to Our Transatlantic Cousins), I love and any dish in which they appear.
This week's organic vegetable box included aubergines, courgettes, peppers, tomatoes, onions, garlic,......some version of this medley - roasted - will feature on my table this week.
Oh, dear.
Crisping up a panful of pancetta, or bacon, or rashers.........(and no, not a substitute), and they go with absolutely everything (well, almost); eggs in almost any shape or form, tomato pasta sauces, mushrooms, pasta with peas and carrots and courgettes, sandwiches......
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I've used cayenne for a little heat too, adds a nice flavor, doesn't make it any wetter.
Oh yeah, I always wash produce, I think in people's heads, they're not eating the skin, so no need to wash, but they don't realize how cutting through something can transfer contaminants from the skin to the inside - and it's especially concerning for things eaten raw (vs. something like an onion you're going to cook - though I wash those too).
Great point, you should change it to 144 point
They were so good, and, umm, they didn't all make it into the guac
I think I mentioned this before, if so, pardon the repeat, but a terrific recipe, so easy, half avocados, break an info the hole left by the pit (you might have to spoon a little more out), and bake to desired doneness (a touch runny, with fully cooked white is perfect for me).
I've used cayenne for a little heat too, adds a nice flavor, doesn't make it any wetter.
Oh yeah, I always wash produce, I think in people's heads, they're not eating the skin, so no need to wash, but they don't realize how cutting through something can transfer contaminants from the skin to the inside - and it's especially concerning for things eaten raw (vs. something like an onion you're going to cook - though I wash those too).
Great point, you should change it to 144 point
They were so good, and, umm, they didn't all make it into the guac
I think I mentioned this before, if so, pardon the repeat, but a terrific recipe, so easy, half avocados, break an info the hole left by the pit (you might have to spoon a little more out), and bake to desired doneness (a touch runny, with fully cooked white is perfect for me).
I love eggs, almost respective of how they are prepared, and tend to like the yolk a bit runny.
Great guacamole is a pure pleasure.
I'm like that most of the time, but I also like these:
It's Vietnamese coffee with powdered cream and sugar. I think Asian shops here sell it, but it comes from Trung Nguyen which is basically Vietnam's answer to Starbucks. A question no-one asked but they decided to answer
We're in the food thread, not the espresso enthusiasts thread, so I think I can get away with this post without totally killing my coffee aficionado reputation.
Yah actually that "instant coffee" beverage mix that i had in my back pantry isn't so bad for an actual emergency.
It has caffeine in it, sorta tastes like coffee that a colleague might have picked up for me at a NY deli and accidentally told the guy "coffee regular" instead of "coffee with milk no sugar".
To me once a coffee has a sweetener in it, it's pretty much in the loser column anyway, but if there are no coffee beans in the house or no way to power up the beans grinder then it's out to the back porch and fire up the campstove and pour some nearly boiling water over a couple tablespoons of this instant mix stuff into a cup and get around it and just "get over it". Best for me if I don't read what's in it really. I can't read before I have coffee in the morning anyway so that should work out fine. Café au lait? Well not exactly, but that's not really the point in a power outage.
So I put it in the front pantry and figure to have it once a week until it's gone, now that I opened it and gave it a shot. I'll keep the spare copy in the front pantry too so I don't forget to use it up, but next time I shop for back pantry re-ups, I'll look for longest possible expiry date on any instant coffee mix like that. Because whatever it is, it doesn't really belong in "food, glorious food" category, that much is for sure. It's fine for a fallback though.
It has caffeine in it, sorta tastes like coffee that a colleague might have picked up for me at a NY deli and accidentally told the guy "coffee regular" instead of "coffee with milk no sugar".
To me once a coffee has a sweetener in it, it's pretty much in the loser column anyway, but if there are no coffee beans in the house or no way to power up the beans grinder then it's out to the back porch and fire up the campstove and pour some nearly boiling water over a couple tablespoons of this instant mix stuff into a cup and get around it and just "get over it". Best for me if I don't read what's in it really. I can't read before I have coffee in the morning anyway so that should work out fine. Café au lait? Well not exactly, but that's not really the point in a power outage.
So I put it in the front pantry and figure to have it once a week until it's gone, now that I opened it and gave it a shot. I'll keep the spare copy in the front pantry too so I don't forget to use it up, but next time I shop for back pantry re-ups, I'll look for longest possible expiry date on any instant coffee mix like that. Because whatever it is, it doesn't really belong in "food, glorious food" category, that much is for sure. It's fine for a fallback though.
All I will say on those types of instant coffees is they were great when I was sent on overseas assignment back in the day. They were a lot cheaper then than they are now though. I'd get 6-10 of them to split with others who'd bring what they could find. The state of coffee outside a major country in those days was a mess. If you were a tea drinker, you'd be fine.