How do you eat your lemon?

Today, I made blueberry lemon small loaf cakes for a sick friend. As I was juicing, zesting, I wondered if others feel as I do about the lovely lemon. I use a lot of fresh lemons in my cooking, I adore the taste. If a recipe calls for juice, I also use the zest because It is a waste to throw that beautiful flavor away. When juicing the lemon, the fleshy part comes out along with the juice and sort of clings to the rinding part of the juicer. I scrape that off and throw it into my recipe, as well. Of course, I toss the seeds. So, do any of you use the fleshy part of the lemon and also the zest even if the recipe does not call for it? I don't find any evidence of that fleshy part in my baked goods or in anything I toss it into, it just disappears. I do get a lot of compliments on my baked goods with lemon and I think it is because they are so full of flavor. I also think the large, organic lemons are the sweetest. My lemon tree is full of egg size lemons by the way, this is going to be a good year for them.

Sounds delicious!

My favorites are lemon pies or lemon bars.

I also love fresh lemon as an accent to fish or iced tea.

I wouldn't eat a raw lemon per se (just too potent), but lemon-based items are among my favorites.

So I adore it as well! Count me as a lemonhead.

Jeff

Today, I made blueberry lemon small loaf cakes for a sick friend. As I was juicing, zesting, I wondered if others feel as I do about the lovely lemon. I use a lot of fresh lemons in my cooking, I adore the taste. If a recipe calls for juice, I also use the zest because It is a waste to throw that beautiful flavor away. When juicing the lemon, the fleshy part comes out along with the juice and sort of clings to the rinding part of the juicer. I scrape that off and throw it into my recipe, as well. Of course, I toss the seeds. So, do any of you use the fleshy part of the lemon and also the zest even if the recipe does not call for it? I don't find any evidence of that fleshy part in my baked goods or in anything I toss it into, it just disappears. I do get a lot of compliments on my baked goods with lemon and I think it is because they are so full of flavor. I also think the large, organic lemons are the sweetest. My lemon tree is full of egg size lemons by the way, this is going to be a good year for them.

Same here; always have a bag in the fridge. If we keep them in the counter basket, they go quickly.

I use the zest a lot...more than the juice really. Mosty in salad dressings, and tossed with a pasta primavera (olive oil based sauce) or any pasta or rice dish with seafood.
We have a prolific lemon tree in California for which I am truly "grate"ful.

I love lemons as well and am not afraid of the fleshy stuff either. But once again this is one of those things where you folks in California are so lucky because lemons grow locally and have so much more flavor than here in the North East. Here it can be very difficult to find good lemons with more flavor than just "sharp acid" whereas in Berkeley I used so many different kinds of lemons with all of their complex soft yet bracing flavors.

And I thought you meant literally 'eat' because I definitely suck out juice from lemons and limes. Although I'm told it's bad for the teeth.

And I thought you meant literally 'eat' because I definitely suck out juice from lemons and limes. Although I'm told it's bad for the teeth.

I did mean "Eat" although not alone, but included in a dish. I knew a boy in high school that loved lemons, he used to suck on them all the time. He had the whitest teeth in the entire school. I also love limes and have a section every day with my Very Veggie juice (a tomato based concoction using an assortment of other veggies), the lime wedge is placed in the glass, then lots of Cholula Sauce on top, then fill with the juice. It is very tasty and I love it. At the end, I suck all the goodness and leftover red hot sauce out of the lime. One time my husband was cleaning up, as he thought I was done with my morning juice because all that was left was the lime. I look forward to that last treat of lime......has never done that again!

We had a great salad tonight with our lemon and grape oil salad dressing.