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Posts tagged “lemon”

Care to Share? What's Your Secret Ingredient?

Something's missing and you just can't quite put your finger on it. Skip an ingredient? Nope. Need more salt? Nah. What do you reach for when your dish just needs a little "something?"...

DIY Wedding Recipe: Creamy, Tangy Lemon Ice Cream

A little while ago I asked for your opinions on what kind of ice cream and sorbet I should make to pair with my homemade wedding cakes. Well, the decision is made! Read on for the recipe... ...

Recipe Review: Mark Bittman's Rosemary-Lemon White Bean Dip

With all the rain and warm weather we've had in Boston recently, our pot of rosemary has started to look a bit wild and scraggly around the edges. It's in definite need of a trim! We tagged this Mark...

Limoncello! Limonada with Limoncello and Tequila

Limoncello is a heavenly concoction made up (of course) by Southern Italians. It's blessedly simple: take the peel off a bunch of lemons, steep them with sugar syrup in a bottle or two of grain liquor...

Recipe: Spring Lemon Risotto with Asparagus and Fiddlehead Ferns

After two weeks away from our kitchen, we returned last week to find the market positively brimming with spring vegetables. When we'd left there were only the first signs of ramps, but now there was ...

Reader Feedback: What Should We Do With These Lemons?

While visiting a friend of ours the other day, she begged us to take some lemons from her lemon tree, as it was bursting with more fruit than she could handle. ...

Recipe: Spring Leek and Lemon Soup

In with spring and out with winter - but don't let go of your winter citrus just yet. This soup bridges the divide between fresh spring produce and the zip of winter citrus like oranges, lemons, and g...

Recipe: Tart Lemon Tart

Early summer seems perfect for lemon meringue pie, blowsy with airy meringue and easy to wolf down before a late afternoon nap. But here on the precipice of spring, when it's still cold outside and su...

Recipe: Lemon Spongettes

Blancmange is having its 15 minutes of fame over here at the Kitchn, and last week's reader photo jogged our memory of a similar childhood dessert that's not quite a pudding but not quite a cake, eith...

New Favorite: Lemon Olive Oil Cake

We sense a theme. Lemons are all we want right now. Lemons and olive oil combine in a sunny, new favorite cake - it's really the best thing we've had in a long time. ...

Seasonal Spotlight: Lemons Call In Spring

We saw these bright yellow lemon juicers at Anthropologie a couple nights ago and the color of lemonade and sunny pies just called out for spring and sunshine. It also reminded us how grateful we ar...

Recipe: Sautéed Shrimp and Tomatoes with Lemon Couscous

Our Cupboard Challenge last week gave us a delicious supper - so quick and easy that we are certainly making it again. With the addition of some fresh jumbo shrimp, these ingredients made a tart, fluf...

Recipe: Lemon Sesame Muffins

Some days we need something cheery for breakfast, something easy yet bright and tart. These muffins are a favorite recipe from our mother - soft, fluffy, and full of lemon, with toasted sesame seeds s...

Recipe: Basic Lemon Sorbet

As we know from Some Facts About Ice Cream, sorbet contains more sugar but less fat than ice cream, is non-dairy, and is usually flavored with fruit. Because you don't have to prepare a custard as pa...