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Posted by sallidz5 5 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 23, 10 at 20:22
Just thought it might be fun & interesting to hear what was the most recent dish you made from your own citrus. For those of us in the cold north, those opportunities are infrequent and a much bigger deal (to us) than you lucky warm climate gardeners who can pick fruit from one or more big trees. Yep, we envy you. Anyway, two weeks ago I made:
Lemon tea cake and lime ice cream from my Meyer lemons (improved) and persian limes that grow in the corner of my livingroom. YUM.... :o) |
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- Posted by jkom51 Z9 CA/Sunset 17 (My Page) on
Sat, Jan 23, 10 at 22:39
Lemon sponge pudding cake
Cuban sour orange roast pork (didn't have any sour oranges, so did a mix of orange juice and Meyer lemon juice)
Honey-lemon tea - fighting off a cold and this is my fav home remedy! |
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| I have some limoncello going. I had a total of 13 lemons this year - my first harvest. Used the last six for a small batch of limocello. Can't wait to taste it in a few weeks. |
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Tried a new recipe for yams this past Christmas. baked 3 yams then pealed them. put 1/2 stick of butter, 1/2 cup of dates and 1/2 cup of tangerine juice in a sauce pan and cooked it down to a syrup (soft dates like Medjool or Barhi dates will cook down into a syrup) You can also use 1 cup tangerine juice and skip the butter. Add the mix to the yams and mash. Serve hot. Add a few date halves on top if you like. I used Daisy tangerines and Barhi dates.
This went over VERY well. No leftovers of yams this year. My daughter said it was her favorite dish this year. |
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| Calamondin marmalade with LOTS of sugar. |
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| Lemonade for my child. And hot lemon water with honey to treat my cold (used Meyer lemons). |
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| Orange juice, as well as using some of the orange juice to make some holiday cranberry jam, with a little cinnamon and allspice. It was great! |
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| Not finished yet, but drying the peel, complete with pith, of my yuzus so that my son can experiment making yuzu bitters with it. Also made yuzu marmalade, but there is so much pectin in them, it has set like a solid rock. Not the suggestion of a wiggle when I turn the jars upside down :-( Ashita |
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| I'd love to hear how the limoncello comes out! |
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| Me too tsmith...except I made Kumquat marmalade w/lots of sugar too! Tasted wonderful on Pancakes/Waffles and vanilla ice cream! |
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| Limequat/calamondin/page orange peel marmalade with the minimum amount of sugar so it would set up. Very good, everyone wants some more. I'll be making another couple of batches in the next few days. |
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| We also made lemon pie from Ponderosa lemons. It was very good. |
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| I've tried some mixed fruit marmalades with yuzu, pummelo, sudachi, or kumquat, in combination with things like cranberries or blueberries. The kumquat-cranberry was the best of the lot. Yuzu and sudachi, if sweetened, seems to work best by themselves. And sweet pummelos are so sweet, but they still have such an overpoweringly distinct flavor that I haven't been able (so far) to successfully mix them with anything else. Sudachi has a REALLY distinct flavor (a lot more of that funky 'papeda'-ness than you get with yuzu); very interesting and not unappealing, but certainly a challenge to do anything with. |
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Almost every morning:
Monreal clemintine rind + Temple of Heaven Special
Gunpowder Green Tea + Thin sliced ginger root, in
about a 16-20 oz mug or recycled foam cup in the
microwave to a slight boil. Any home grown orange, mandarin, or mandarin hybrid
rind works. There many benificial compounds in "orange
rind oils" and very tasty if not overdone. The green
tea may have an unpleasent "whang" after taste with
out these helpful additives. Green teas are the most
healthy drinks known drinks on earth. Any good green
or black tea works. (Not ice tea leaves please.) Lunch: Instead of a vinigrette dressing a Vietnamese
salad is topped with West Indian lime (Key or Mexican)/
honey (or sugar) added for those bland winter tomatoes. Most evenings, after dinner: Try this.
Juice; 1 Ujukitsu sweet lemon + 1 Wekiwa tangelo-lo
+ 1/2 Golden grapefruit + sea salt + a shot
or two of vodka for the best salty dog
in citrus history. Or for us old gezers with arthritis:
Juice; Two Page tan-tangelos+ 2 Tankan tangerines
(or Ponkans or sweet orange) + 2 tbs canned
coconut cream + 1 oz vodka + 1/2 oz Bacardi
This is a variation of a recipe given by
a 3rd generation Plaquemine Parish, La. citrus
nurseryman after I told him I grew Page.
If you dont have an Asian grocery for the co-
conut cream use the Cajun's original Malibu
coconut rum. The canned cream is better for
the joints. Or use coconut oil from an (Asian)
Indian food store in some other recipe. Remember all citrus originated in south and east
Asia. Look to their uses and build on them.
Bon citrus apitite! |
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| Tantanman: the origin of your user name is now clear to me! Your teas, cocktails and variety of available citrus makes a Maine livingroom citrus grower truly envious! ;o) With luck (lots), in 8 months+/- I might have a Washington navel to try your recipes. Especially looking forward to your arthritis relief! In the meantime, it is 10 degrees outside & the smell of orange blossoms fills the air...... Last night for our weekly Friday night dinner with friends: Lime bars- no health benefits, just satisfying the tastebuds! |
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"Remember all citrus originated in south and east
Asia."
hmmm, I believe some came from other areas? Lemons from the Mediterranean, Some oranges from the more eastern Med? |
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