Culinary and/or philosophical advice welcome
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Combustible lemons, aka lemon-nades.
Burning people! He says what we’re all thinking!
…arson again, you see! It’s the way to go!
Was waiting for the Cave Johnson comment.
This is such a wonderful throw-back
Arson
Arson is usually the answer, I concur
Cave Johnson answered that but I can’t recall and quote all that.
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I’m going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Squeeze half of the lemon, put it into shaker. Add a lot of ice and two teaspoons of powdered sugar. Shake it hard. Pour everything into a glass and add 5cl of gin. Steer it gently and enjoy your gin fix.
Is that like a gin Old-Fashioned?
I know it as “gin fix”.
I like to buy discounted old lemons. I wrap them up and toss them in the freezer. They thaw ugly but are still good for cooking.
Good idea In what do you wrap them? Aluminium foil? Or caj I put them in freezer bags?
Plastic wrap, but a freezer bag with the air squeezed out would work too.
If life also gives you copper wire and a USB-C plug, you could make a comically large and inefficient charger.
Grill them. Seriously.
"Alright lemons, I’m asking the questions round here, you got that?”
That sounds illegal
It’s amazing. The sugars caramelize and the bitterness falls away, leaving you with the perfect accompaniment to grilled meats or veggies.
Sounds cool but also sacrilege.
Does it work on a frying pan (without oil, of course)? Asking for a friend.
Yes! You can put them facedown while you’re roasting a chicken in the pan, for example.
Thank you! I’m gonna do it.
Sometimes you don’t have sugar or water onhand and can’t actually make lemonade. You just gotta eat the lemons. It sucks but you gotta.
I’ve made this cake a couple of times. It’s quite good.
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Salted preserved lemons are delicious. Quarter them lengthwise but not all the way to the end, then smash them down into a jar with lots of salt, pack in as many as you can. Seal it up and give it a shake off and on for a few days, then leave it in the refrigerator for a month. Yum. Use the peels in cooking, they are salty, sour, bright tasting.
Lemon bars 🤤
I also came here to recommend lemon bars! Here’s a viral recipe that everyone (including myself) swears by.
Make lemonade. - Get mad!! Make life take the lemons back!!
When life gives you lemons…
Demand to see life’s manager! Invent combustible lemons and burn life’s house down!
Make lemon cake 🍰
