Day: April 26, 2011

I’M STRESSIN’ OVER THIS GAME.

Why twelve lemons?

previous recipes: lemonade, lemon cookies, lemon chicken, and strawberry lemonade, candied lemon slices

I need a drink, so I made this, The Roger Collins. It’s like a Tom Collins, except I named it after everyone’s favorite Robert Redford-lookalike English teacher-slash-student newspaper advisor from Sweet Valley High.

Ingredients
• 1 lemon
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 oz Hendrick’s gin
• ice
• club soda

Juice one lemon and strain the seeds and pulp. Mix the strained lemon juice with sugar and gin; pour over ice in a rocks glass (I know a collins glass would be more appropriate but I don’t have any? Weird. TIME TO SHOP!). Top with club soda and clutch in your white-knuckled game seven hand.

lemons used: 1; lemons remaining: 1

EDIT: OH SWEET RELIEF

Why twelve lemons?

previous recipes: lemonade, lemon cookies, lemon chicken, and strawberry lemonade

Next up: candied lemon slices! You can eat these on their own or use them to decorate cupcakes or other treats (i.e. cocktails). Unfortunately, mine didn’t turn out perfect; I overcooked (overcandied?) them slightly because I was busy attending to a self-inflicted stab wound I got on my thumb while scraping labels off baby food jars for another project. Being crafty is hard, you guys 🙁

recipe from Cave Cibum
Ingredients:
• 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup water

Slice your lemon, discarding the ends. You want very very thin slices. I cut my slices in half to make crescents but you could leave them whole for rounds.

In a medium-sized saucepan or frying pan over high heat, mix the sugar and water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium low and add lemon slices in a single layer.

Simmer lemon slices until the rinds become translucent (about 30-40 minutes), then remove from pan with a slotted spoon and lay them on parchment to cool.

Once they are cooled, roll them lightly in sugar and enjoy!

To store, wrap in parchment in an airtight container in the fridge (I put layers of parchment between mine since they are really sticky).

lemons used: 1; lemons remaining: 2

Sym spent a lot of time perfectly organizing all the toys on her bed and wanted me to share her pictures with you all (although, I seem to recall there being a rule about only having five toys on the bed at a time…)

This stuffed strawberry is a new addition, I bought it for her on Sunday when we stopped at Ikea on our way home from Kelowna.

When you have a four day weekend, Tuesdays are the new Mondays.

These nails were my wedding guest nails. I kind of wanted to do something fancy but I didn’t have time, so instead I just did my two new favorite spring pastels.

Essie in Turquoise & Caicos

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Lacey Lilac
I still don’t know how I feel about showing the internet my feet. Maybe getting over this fear can be my goal for May, haha.

In non-toes news, I want to give a big internet hug to my girl Karra for featuring me on a blog love post. Thank you!!