When life hands you lemons

14 years ago

Make lemonade...

And when you forget to put the ground hazelnuts on top of the muffins, make hazelnut encrusted chicken the next day.

So what mistake have you made that turned fortutious?

Linda C

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foodonastump
14 years ago
Got my GF (now DW) preggers.
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loagiehoagie
14 years ago
Ha! Good one! Linda, when life hands me lemons I throw them at people from Iowa and hope they can add sugar to sweetem them up! ...okay ...just kidding...I don't really have an answer for this question. I don't make mistakes too often. And when I do I usually don't have a way to rectify the problem.

P.S. Isn't there a re-run of a great Howie-do-it show on tonight? :-)

Duane
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14 years ago
I was always told if Life handed you a lemon to suck it quick and get on with it. But lemonade works too.

Ann
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rob333 (zone 7b)
14 years ago
I didn't 1/2 the madeline recipe. I wanted to reserve enough materials to do it over again, but really, the mixture was good. Just had to tweak the temperature and time.

P.S. Ann is closer. "When life gives you lemons, add salt and tequila" is the mantra.
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jakkom
14 years ago
...squeeze 'em and freeze 'em for the summer! Lemons are actually a winter crop, so when the hot weather comes around in August my Meyers aren't producing (they're still young yet, barely a decade old).

Of course, during the winter and spring I've got more lemons than even we can handle, so I'm always giving them away to friends and family.

One of our friends has a persimmon tree - same problem, everything gets ripe at once in October. I'd heard you can't freeze the pulp, but discovered that you can, at least for a couple of months' time, without a problem. I don't like persimmons myself, but because I had to use up several very ripe ones, invented a recipe for Ginger Persimmon Curd to top a delicate Meyer lemon cheesecake. Works great and is delicious!
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maureen_me
14 years ago
Life handed me some organic lemons this weekend, and I made lemon curd for the first time. Not a salvage operation, but very scrumptious. Now I want to try a bunch of different flavors. Curds aweigh!
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Terri_PacNW
14 years ago
foodonastump...
we've been down that road before too...LOL

He's 17 now..and soon...moving on to the next stage in his life...I HOPE!!!

There are two more "suprises" behind him. LOL

Well today was clean out the fridge...I made fried rice..

Some spicy breakfast sausage that was pre browned, couple cups of old rice, 2 baby leeks, handful of frozen peas and a giant organic farm fresh chicken egg..
Couple glugs of Tamari and a quick couple dashes of rice vinegar..

Delish meal for ME!!!

I think fried rice has to be one of the best "redo" of unused ingredients!
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lindac
Original Author
14 years ago
I think that maybe I'll plan some "old rice"....that sounds good!
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lakeguy35
14 years ago
A shot of ole Jose works for me...lick, shoot, and suck if I remember right.LOL! It's been many years since I've done that for various reasons. LOL

Another fan of fried rice for leftovers.

What about that ice cream you find in the refigerator?? That has happened to me more than once...

No kids here....thank you very much!!

David
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lindac
Original Author
14 years ago
Now David.....when Life hands you lemons put it in the tank, when you get limes shout Ole Jose!
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happytime_ca
14 years ago
When life hands me lemons (I have 3 meyer lemon bushes)I make Limoncello
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bottled (also some crema and some orangecella)
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CA Kate z9
14 years ago
While visiting my MILs I started to make a double recipe of chocolate cake. I had the chocolate bars and butter melting in a pan when it was decided that only one cake would be needed. So, I made one cake recipe... but added all the butter and chocolate without thinking. I turned out to be the very best Double Chocolate Fudge Oatmeal Cake ever.
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eileenlaunonen
14 years ago
Make a big batch of Lemoncello!!!!
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