My baby meyer lemon tree

Is it just me, or are Meyer lemons way easier to get this year than they were last year? I have been buying them 6 at a time, and using them for so many things. I thought I would share a few of them here. I’m also going to give a few tips on having them all year round, so that you never have to be without them. As you can see from the picture above, I have a plan for the future. This little tree is covered in buds right now, so hopefully next year, those will all be lemons!

If you don’t know what a Meyer lemon is, they are a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. They look like a lemon, but the skin is a little thinner and often a little more orange-colored. They smell like lemon, but sweet. You can use them anywhere you would use a Eureka lemon.

For more information, visit Oysterculture’s citrus entry.

First, the links to things I’ve already made and posted on this blog: blueberry-Meyer lemon scones and lemon-clementine cake. My friend Natasha at 5starfoodie created this great Meyer lemon crepe recipe.

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Okay, I know I just posted scones 2 weeks ago. What can I say? I ran out and had to make more.

These are a little bit of a creative take on Cindy Mushet’s recipe for Candied Ginger Scones in The Art and Soul of Baking. I loved the idea of these, because they have no butter in them, and the cream is whipped. The original recipe was not whole wheat, so I substituted 1/2 of the flour with whole wheat pastry flour.

I wanted to go back to my original idea for this blog – the eleven best foods you’re not eating. So, blueberries it was. And lemon peel is supposed to help prevent cancer. Besides, what isn’t a little better with some Meyer lemon in it?

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Chocolate-cherry whole wheat scones. I could eat these every day. One of these days, I will share with you what I really do eat every morning. But these are my special treat. In my freezer, there is a bag of frozen raw scones, so I can always have melty, tender, warm scones right out of the oven. A cappuccino on the side. Now that’s breakfast. Also try the Blueberry-Meyer Lemon scones!

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