love thursday: lemon love

I’m celebrating lemon love this week.

Although this wonderful citrus fruit grows year round here, lemons still say l’estate to me. I *love* an ice cold glass of homemade lemonade; P prefers lemon slices sprinkled with salt.

As much as I love to enjoy lemons, though, I couldn’t split up this adorable pair:

Limoni love on Flickr

Even though I know that more are on their way.

Lemon blossoms on Flickr

What’s your favorite way to enjoy a lemon?

Happy Love Thursday everyone!

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  1. 04.28.2008

    I made the most wonderful lemon daiquiris a few weeks ago. Fresh squeezed lemon, ice, blended with rum and a tad of sugar. Mmmmmmmmmmm

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    Oooh that sounds heavenly….

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  2. Rachel
    04.30.2008

    How sad am I that I moved to Italy and gave up my lemon tree? In San Francisco, I just walked out to the back yard and grabbed lemons to put on everything I cooked. In Florence, though… supermarket lemons are just not the same. I have a friend from Sicily whose mother sends him boxes of lemons, and sometimes I get a few.

    But my favorite thing to do with a lemon is to squeeze it over watermelon. It sounds weird but it is the perfect marriage of sweet and tart. I was offered this once at one of those side-of-the-road anguria stands, and now it is my favorite way to have both these things. The lemon juice sort of dribbles into the holes where the watermelon seeds are… mmm. Now I ask for this at every anguria stand, but it must not be common because they usually look at me funny.

    How ironic, Rachel, that you moved to Italy and now lack lemons! Gah! Interesting idea with the watermelon…Cherrye of My Bella Vita talks about putting salt on hers, so I imagine it’s along the same lines…what about salt *and* lemon?! I think my P would love watermelon then ;)

    Thanks for coming by!

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  3. Austen
    11.18.2008

    Lemon Love…for sure!
    My wife just picked lemons from our “Healthy this year” tree, and is making our second batch of Limoncello.
    Making it in California is tough! We have the lemons, but need to go out of state to get the grain alcohol!
    But we have some now. Batch 1 needed far more “smoothing out” than we gave it. Lots of lemon, but needed another cup or more of sugarwater. We were afraid to “taste test till its right”: would have laid us out!

    Well it sounds like you had great fun making it! Happy limoncello-ing :)

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