How to Turn Fresh Lemons into Crack
I wanted those fresh organic lemons. They called to me in the grocery store and I answered.
I took them home and rolled one in my hands. I googled lemon recipes. Lemon bars…best lemon Lemon bars ……talked about being a lemon bar snob.
Yea, that’s me. The crust will be perfect. I will wait until it cools to add the lemony food of the goddesses topping. Yes. I too like the crust and the lemon to be separate events.
Discussions on different varieties of lemons. All I know is that I got out my handy dandy electric juicer and squeezed those yellow gems. I quickly measured out what I need for the best damn lemon bars in the world and then I drank the rest. DELICIOUS!
I was almost happy enough to drink it all and not make the lemon bars, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Now, I had to have them.
Organic flour. Organic butter. Sugar from Mexico. It is not pure white and they list the trace minerals on the bag. Organic fresh eggs. Beautiful eggs with life in them!
The next morning I had just one with my coffee.
I know I know. Then after lunch I was even….ing out the cut piece, looking to make things symmetrical. I KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!
I was there,You was there,We was there. If you have never been there, stop reading now because we may not understand one another!
I have read Sugar Blues. I know the history of sugar and the rise and fall of armies and nations on its behalf.
I have taught classes and heard about the baby who crawled out of his crib and into the kitchen to get to the sugar bowl! Hell, I have enough family stories to entertain you for a loonng time.
The world is full of sugar whores. They will crash your party so they can have some cake.
I clearly understand that when the neurons start yeahing over sugar and they cross paths with emotional memory,you gotta do some work or SWEET is gonna win!
HellsBells, I have done lots of work.
My favorite ice cream can crust over forgotten in the freezer. The dark chocolate in my car can bloom before I remember it is there. I can eat just one cookie.
Somehow I forgot to remember that the combination sugar and lemon is CRACK ……….for me.
I dropped some off at my daughter’s. Five minutes later my phone rings, “Mom, my friend wants to know what kind of sugar you used. These are really good!
AAAHHHHH! Now, I ‘m a dealer!
Does Your Relationship with Sugar Need a Little Tweaking?
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Wow! I know exactly what you’re talking about!
I can understand this so well I grew my own lemons last year. But my husband is the one who made the lemon bars. He is more of the baker type. I think the sour and sweet are a good balance that actually keeps me from eating too much – that and the butter in the crust, it is so rich.
I love your humorous perspective about bedeviling the next generation. I know you teach moderation, so she’ll be ok!! It’s a lot of work to make something that tastes that good, so if she’s not into baking she might be safe!
Thanks for your comments. I was shocked. I haven’t had that out of control feeling for a long time.
The word that sugar is a drug bubbles up to the surface of cultural consciousness and then gets lost again.
I have lots more to say………..stay tuned
I’ve reported you to the FBI. They should be knocking on your door demanding those lemon bars soon.
Dear Bruce,
I am happy to announce that I made a second batch of lemon bars and they were just lemon bars. ……delicious, but not overly exciting!
Thank you for sending the FBI. They enjoyed the lemon bars!! he..he
OMG, that is so funny–and right on! I’m Greek–we mainline lemon!
I am powerless over lemons
I received an email. I think we can safely call it An Ode to Butter. I think you might enjoy it.
I enjoyed your sugar blog…cookies are cookies, and sugar is sugar, but what makes it all work together isn’t the Organic-ness of the ingredients always,…..it is the BUTTER!
Butter is pure gold in a spreadable shape able… smooth…delectable cube!
Any food (almost) is better because of BUTTER…garlic BUTTERED mushrooms—shortbread made with BUTTER.
Have you ever had a potato chip dipped in BUTTER??…or crackers with BUTTER?
Would you even eat a croissant without butter? I think that is against some kind of international law isn’t it?
Frosting, without BUTTER is just sweet grease!!!
Any food that has flavor is made better with BUTTER…How could you even make soup without it?
BUTTER is the best part of Clam Chowder, or Potato soup.
BUTTER with toast is what makes my home-made jam taste good….
Think Costco’s mousse filled cake is good? Try a piece of cake layered with (a little) BUTTER! ..My husband thinks it is gravy that makes whipped potatoes good…wrong…it is the BUTTER that you add to whip them up, and then add again to make sweet salty yellow pools floating in the gravy. You know you have had something good to eat when your shirt has a big BUTTER grease streak on the front after you are done, and your fingers shine with its golden nectar!
Is this enough???
As a child I got in trouble for using BUTTER as modeling clay…it was left on the table for that purpose wasn’t it??? It could be shaped into blocks, volcanoes, bird nests and all kinds of amazing animals.
Is love of this hardened yellow substance an addiction?
Probably…just mix it with a little sugar, and pretend like it is the sugar that is calling your name, and then you won’t feel so guilty cause no one will know what your weakness really is!
Diane