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How to Make Three-Ingredient Lemonade

Posted on July 16, 2024July 16, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A large glass jar of lemonade with ice, lemon slices and mint. The jar sits on a wooden tabletop next to two fresh lemons..

Lemonade takes less time to make than schlepping to the store to buy it and tastes better than anything you’ll find there on the shelves.

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How to Make Scouring Powder With Orange or Lemon Zest

Posted on March 1, 2023March 12, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A jam jar with a blue lid sits on a while counter. The jam jar is filled with homemade scouring powder containing bits of dried citrus zest.

Zest all the citrus to add to this simple and effective scouring powder. Save money, use up more food scraps and enjoy a truly natural scent.

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15 More Creative Ideas for Cooking with Food Scraps

Posted on April 28, 2021June 2, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
a bin of free cauliflower leaves from the farmers' market

Think like Grandma, use every last bit of your food and elevate food scraps to their rightful status in your kitchen: ingredients.

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7 Easy Recipes for Lemon Season

Posted on January 23, 2019February 11, 2022by Anne-Marie Bonneau
fresh organic lemons

When life gives you lemons, use them all up with these recipes, including the peels, and avoid food waste.

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The Lemon Sorbet of Compromise

Posted on February 10, 2018September 19, 2018by Anne-Marie Bonneau
homemade sorbet without an ice cream maker

My daughter Charlotte started feeling sick Friday. As I left for the grocery store to fill up on supplies for my sourdough bread boot camp workshop, she asked me to bring her back sorbet, or sherbet or some other frozen dessert other than ice cream to soothe her throat. I said I would look. In […]

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The Ultimate Quick and Easy Lemon Curd

Posted on February 7, 2018March 4, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau

If you glance at my Instagram feed at the moment, you can easily surmise that lemons have come back in season here in Northern California. So far, I’ve started a few jars of preserved lemons, made fermented lemonade, started lemon extract, and last night—at 2am—made the lemon curd in this post. And took the pictures. […]

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Lemon Extract

Posted on February 5, 2018March 14, 2018by Anne-Marie Bonneau
homemade lemon extract

I feel as though have a part-time job at the moment finding uses for the lemons that our tree rains down upon us. If I had more than one lemon tree as prolific as this one, I would lose my mind. Or I would list the location of my trees on Falling Fruit, a site […]

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How to Make Preserved Lemons

Posted on March 22, 2017January 23, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Updated 01/23/18 If you prefer your food bland, skip this blog post. Until now, when I made preserved lemons in the past, honestly, I struggled to use up an entire jar. Classically, you use preserved lemons in chicken tagine but we don’t eat much chicken. They go well with fish but we eat little fish. […]

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She’s So Lazy, She Blogs about Her Vinaigrette

Posted on February 18, 2016June 29, 2021by Anne-Marie Bonneau

A guy I dated briefly once told me—as he sat at my kitchen table and watched me cook dinner—that the French have a saying: “She’s so lazy, she buys her vinaigrette.” I think he made it up. Google can’t find it. Not surprisingly, the relationship didn’t work out… However, he had a point. Store-bought salad dressing […]

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