If Cezanne had lived not in France but in Southern California, his still lifes would have overflowed with Meyer lemons. Plump, smooth-skinned, colored an unmistakable dark yellow -- canary yellow, the ...

Recently, when I made limoncello from the plump fruit of our little Meyer lemon tree, I had leftovers: seven perfect and precious—but naked— lemons. Their skins were soaking in vodka (see last week’s ...

This recipe is noisy and fun, but watch the splatters. When the raw green beans hit the hot oil, they spit and sputter and soon become slightly caramelized and brown on the outside; during the cooking ...

They add complex, mellow tartness and flavor that ordinary lemons can't match. When we refer to preserved lemons, we generally mean the sour citrus packed in granular salt, a condiment most often ...

Recipes for preserved lemons seem to be the darling for cooking schools — at least recently. First up, I went to a Provençal brunch held in a private home for the Cheyenne Mountain Newcomers Club in ...

Shrimp cooked in a buttery, lemony sauce is nothing new, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to give it a twist. One way that I shake up shrimp scampi, a weeknight dinner favorite in my house, is ...

Lisa K. Barclay of Charleston passed along the recipe for preserved lemons from Jeff Smith's "The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors" cookbook. "I have made this several times. The lemons keep ...

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In 1987, on a visit to what I call the Holy Land, I ate the best salad of my life. It was at a small outdoor restaurant in Bethlehem, Palestine, on the West Bank, at one edge of the city’s main square ...

They add a complex, mellow flavor that ordinary lemons can't match. Keeping a jar of preserved lemons in your pantry is like owning a valid culinary passport. Crack the lid, scoop out a segment, and ...

Preserved lemons are lemons (usually whole, split, or quartered) packed in salt and brined in their own or additional lemon juice—essentially, they’re pickled lemons. Especially common in Middle ...