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OK, I've made a Lemon Cheese Cake and it's currently backing in my oven, so I'm not sure if it will turn out right. Never the less, here is my recipe (more or less in accordance with):

Ingredients

• 250g chocolate cookies
• 75g butter (melted)
• 500g cottage cheese
• 250g Philadelphia Creame Cheese
• 115g caster sugar
• 3 eggs
• from 3 lemons the zest
• 60ml lemon juice

Preparation

1. crunch biscuits into pulp, and then mix with butter
2. press pulp evenly in 20cm cake form; chill at least for 20min
3. pre-heat oven to 160 deg C
4. mix sugar, cottage cheese, cream cheese
5. add one egg after the other and mix
6. add lemon zest and juice, mix
7. add mix into cake form, bake for ~50min

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