Life More Social: "If Life gives you Lemons... Make Lemonade"

Lemon tree in our backyard

If Life (Or your weekly organic delivery box, coupled with the lemon tree in the backyard) gives you lemons… make lemonade, and candied lemon peels!

When our organic box of fruits and vegetables showed up this week (www.farmfreshtoyou.com), our delivery contained about 15 Meyer Lemons. My first thought was “I didn’t realize that lemons were a winter fruit”, and my second thought was “What on earth am I going to do with 15 Meyer lemons?”

Meyer lemons are much sweeter than regular lemons, and their skins are edible with a little bit of sugar and boiling.

For the entire last week, the majority of the US was hit by crazy snow storms, blizzards, power outages, and hundreds of flights we canceled. From as far as I can tell, it sounded like some of the worst weather in years for the three-fourths of the country that it affected. While the rest of the country was buying more firewood, bundling up, and shoveling themselves out of their homes… I was wearing shorts (for the first time this year) and making lemonade. Here in Northern California, we sat outside in the sun, and spent the entire weekend remarking how nice and warm it was. Saturday was in the high 70’s low 80’s, and due to the drastic change in weather that felt hot. (ok I’m rubbing it in a little).

Like I said, for some reason I always think of lemons as more of a summer fruit (maybe because they are bright yellow and summery looking), and maybe because lemonade is one of the best hot weather drinks. Well, either way, if they are a winter fruit or a summer fruit – In the middle of winter (February) and in the middle of our summer like weather, we drank lemonade on the patio.