Culinary and/or philosophical advice welcome
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.
Give them to me.
I agree. Give them to this person. ^^
Kinda depend how much lemon Life gave you. If it’s one, maybe make a glass of lemonade with sugary syrup and salted dried sour plum. Add the dried plum into 1/10 mug of hot water, stir for a few second, add in the lemon juice and some ice, then fill it up with water and you got a glass of refreshing lemonade.
If it’s a few, maybe you can make lemon pound cake or lemon cheese cake instead.
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.
You should take their seeds, irradiate them and set up a gamma garden
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.
If life also gives you copper wire and a USB-C plug, you could make a comically large and inefficient charger.
Cocaine
I’ll do you one further : Cocainade
Hell yes, rocket propelled cocainades
I mean, you make lemonade. Not just because of the adage, but because lemonade is delicious.
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.
Juice them and freeze the juice as ice cubes, then bag them, store in deep freezer.
Then you have delicious lemon juice ready at your finger tips for ever and ever.
Make lemon cake 🍰
Make lemonade. - Get mad!! Make life take the lemons back!!
When life gives you lemons…
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!
This is such a wonderful throw-back
…arson again, you see! It’s the way to go!
Combustible lemons, aka lemon-nades.
Burning people! He says what we’re all thinking!
Was waiting for the Cave Johnson comment.