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Today I harvested a good 6 kilos of lemons from the tree in my backyard. And there are still more to come. A few green ones are already hanging there, and there is still some flowering going on. I've already harvested a few last week, so there will most likely still be a couple of kilos I'll get my hands on.

Lemon Tree [1]

This was great compared to last year, which only offered a meager harvest, as the tree was hit with an illness.

Now I face the obvious question "what to do with all these lemons?" A question I never had to ask myself prior.

Preserved Lemons

For one I decided to preserve a couple. This is easily achieved. Just fill the bottom of a jar with ~2cm of salt, chop lemons (sufficient to fit into the jar) into quarters, spread salt on quarters, put them in jar, and finally fill the jar with olive oil. Done!

I also extracted some lemon juice from around half of the harvest, which I've frozen for later consumption.

Today I will make an attempt at backing a lemon cheesecake, where I'll be following roughly this recipe. "Roughly" as I always change something, I only use recipes as a guide, not an instruction.

Now, I have found a few interesting recipes, as listed below, but feel free to leave your suggestions as a comment.

I'm definitely going to try the lemon sorbet.

More Lemon Recipes

The following are a collection of links to recipes involving lemons.

• Lemon Butter
• Lemon Syllabus
• White Chocolate Lemon Napoleon
• Lemon Sorbet
• Lemon With A Twist