Lemon Bars

I was gifted 4 nice and juicy Meyer lemons by one of our neighbors and wanted to make something yummy.....decided on a recipe I found on allrecipes.com ~ Chef John's Lemon Bars.


I'm glad I lined the pan with parchment ~ they still seeped some of the lemon mixture under the crust and it was hard to remove!




I'm gifting a plate back to the neighbors who gave me the lemons and a small plate to a couple other neighbors who love their sweets.




What I kept for myself was the BEST part......the browned and chewy edges I had cut off before I cut the bars and powder sugared!

Thanks for the good wishes, Imelda.

I passed the Lemon Bars out to the neighbors.....haven't heard any complaints so far!  LOL

I just ate the edges and I was happy with the flavor.  Funny thing is, this is the first time I've made them.  I usually make a Lemon Cornmeal Cake or Lemon Pudding Cake so I'm happy to have another lemon 'something' to make.  It's been years since I've made a lemon mirangue (sp???) pie ~ that should be on my list soon.

They loom great. Might be making a 5th batch soon. Everybody keeps taking the ones I have.

I could easily 'unload' a dozen batches if I wanted to bake them.....and that's just on MY street! LOL

I guess I'll have to use some of the freezer lemon juice for a lemon meringue pie. I've thought about it long enough!

These look delicious, Beth. I'd like the ones you kept and I'd also like that big plate of pretty ones, too, please!

You'd laugh, as I just got a new issue of Cook's Illustrated and they have an article entitled "The Lemoniest Lemon Bars," and I thought about making some when I'm up to fiddling around in the kitchen again. It was interesting as they talked about how the proportions of filling to crust was important and they decided the filling should be double the thickness of the crust, or 1/2-inch of filling on top of 1/4-inch of crust.

Brian got me a bag of lemons as I want to make some more of that microwave lemon curd, which is just too easy to make.  I've also got a hankering to make some more pepper jelly, too.  The kitchen always calls though I'm not answering it much lately!

Thanks for posting these -- your neighbors are very lucky. Needless to say, that lady who gave you the lemons will certainly be delivering more!