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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 13:12:02 GMT -5
Post by Jody on Sept 19, 2007 13:12:02 GMT -5
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 13:21:04 GMT -5
Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Sept 19, 2007 13:21:04 GMT -5
Are the lemon tarts - well - a bit "tart"? I like them not too sweet, and it would be easy to make because I've got a Meyer lemon tree in the back yard that has fruit most of the year.
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jpcat
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 13:38:15 GMT -5
Post by jpcat on Sept 19, 2007 13:38:15 GMT -5
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 13:52:42 GMT -5
Post by annettecinca on Sept 19, 2007 13:52:42 GMT -5
Demarias & Jpcat, thanks for both these links! I wasn't planning to bake today, but now I have a sudden urge...
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 14:23:52 GMT -5
Post by Jody on Sept 19, 2007 14:23:52 GMT -5
Not too sweet at all! A friend just gave me a huge bag of Key Limes from her tree and I thought I might try using those for a change. jcpat, those cookies sound wonderful. We are so fortunate to have a real French bakery nearby. While he specialises in cakes and pastries, we go for the baguettes. But I always pick up some of his diaments, which are similar to your recipe. They are formed into a log, rolled in rock sugar then sliced and baked. They always have madelines ,croissants, pain au chocolat, escargots and cases full of temptations! It's mostly a commercial operation, he bakes for all the big hotels and fine restaurants here, but I'm so glad he has a small retail outlet. www.brunosgourmetkitchen.com/whoweare.htm
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 15:58:14 GMT -5
Post by Penny on Sept 19, 2007 15:58:14 GMT -5
Yes, it's apple season here also. Next week I am going down to orchards (and cematary).
My uncle had an orchard until he passed away in the 70's, had been in his family for 3 generations. I stayed with them between the age of 5-8 and I still remember helping with the harvest. My job was dragging the burlap sacks to the filling station (apples)
and for my birthday he would bring me a peck of Winesap apples. Which are very hard to find now.
Is the tart made with a tart or sweet apple? I will look at recipe later.
and Becky I am jealous, lemons and limes are so expensive here! One of my favorite cakes is a coconut cake with lemon filling but have only made once since I moved back to KC.
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 16:58:54 GMT -5
Post by Jody on Sept 19, 2007 16:58:54 GMT -5
Oh dear! If you are jealous of the lemons and limes, you'd probably kill for my pink grapefruit. We have the best tree in the neighborhood and cannot possibly eat all of them. My neighbors , who all have their own trees, knock on my door asking for some of ours!
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 17:01:10 GMT -5
Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Sept 19, 2007 17:01:10 GMT -5
Demarais - let me guess, you also have avocados?
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 17:42:22 GMT -5
Post by Jody on Sept 19, 2007 17:42:22 GMT -5
Yes, we did have a large avocado tree but the hurricanes a few years ago took it down. We hardly ever got more than 5 or 6 off of it though, even though it was loaded with them. The squirells got to them before we had a chance,. Our neighbor has one that overhangs our drive and we did get about 10 off of that ..the little tree rats got the rest!
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Poilane
Sept 19, 2007 18:27:00 GMT -5
Post by Becky (Berkeleytravelers) on Sept 19, 2007 18:27:00 GMT -5
Maybe you need a version of the way the Poire William liqueur is produced - but instead of having them grow inside bottles, you can have them grow inside squirrel-proof wire cages (if there is such a thing!)
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Poilane
Sept 20, 2007 7:25:12 GMT -5
Post by Happygoin on Sept 20, 2007 7:25:12 GMT -5
Becky, loving to bake, I am jealous of your lemon tree too. On the other hand, my waistline is probably the better for not having one in my back yard. I remember seeing lemon trees in Italy for the first time and thinking they were SO exotic and very cool. It's all in your perspective, I guess. Being in NE, we don't give our millions of apple, peach and pear trees a second thought. And btw, a lemon tart is always the first patisserie treat I buy in Paris too, demarais. I distinctly remember my first. I ate it on the grass at the Champs du Mar and was hooked for life.
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Poilane
Sept 20, 2007 10:06:30 GMT -5
Post by Truffaut on Sept 20, 2007 10:06:30 GMT -5
OK, I can get in on this one. Until we had to have it re-graded because of water problems, the entire side of our house was planted with raspberry bushes. There were so many berries that we had to make decadent things like raspberry pies and cobblers, and even then we had more than we could use. They're fabulous mixed in with peaches in a pie!
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Poilane
Sept 21, 2007 12:53:22 GMT -5
Post by Happygoin on Sept 21, 2007 12:53:22 GMT -5
I just saw the recipe link. I know what I'm doing this weekend...
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