You know those days when you think to yourself, "I've got this!" but then you don't? Maybe it is walking into a test during your college years, ready to rock it, and then you realized you studied all the wrong stuff. Come on, where is the part on the heart? I know the heart, not muscles! Yeah, as you can tell, that happened a lot to me in anatomy. Good thing I didn't go into medicine.
That was me with these lemon bars. And like the bad tests in college, I only have myself to blame. A combination of not checking ingredients before I started cooking and trying to multi-task during (I just had to catch up on The Bachelor!) led to creative substitutions and not the best consistency. Le sigh.
Consistency/schomistency. That's what I am saying today. The taste isn't that bad (actually quite nice, really) and the pictures are beautiful. They kind of remind me of France. Not that I have ever been...
Whether or not they turned out perfectly, it is nice to be back in the kitchen. And very very nice to not be on a low-residue diet anymore. Hallelujah for ingredients that have flavor!
To get the original recipe (which I am sure is better than my version of 'very-little-sugar-let's-use-honey'), pick up a copy of Joy the Baker's book. Otherwise, click here to get your standard lemon bar recipe. Not as French-feeling as Joy's, but pretty good to be sure.
LOL. That is me during my exams! It`s all good! What if honey did work out? It`ll be brilliant!
ReplyDeleteIt would have been brilliant. WOULD have been. At least they didn't taste bad, if you could get over the eating-rubber sensation :P
DeleteHa!! Your too funny! I hate it when I start multi tasking and mess up a recipe! It drives me crazy!! These look delicious:) mmmm I could go for a lemon bar! Maybe I'll make some and try not to multitask while doing it! Thanks for your sweet comment lady;)
ReplyDeleteNo Bachelor for you! ;)
DeleteThey look good! I've got a recipe for these in the new cookbook that I am hooked on that I am dying to try! If ONLY this headcold eased....On a low to no sugar and dairy diet at the moment....And I do NOT cook vegan cakes.....so I might as well just wait untill after the cold and use all that butter and sugar!!! YUM
ReplyDeleteRenate, you need to do a blog about your journey through that book! Or add it to your craft blog. You are making such great dishes!!!
DeleteOh these speak to my soul. I have the book and will totally try these!
ReplyDeleteYes, do it! Just follow the recipe ;)
DeleteThinking i've got it but then don't is a daily occurrence for me.... These bars look yum!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha! I guess me, too, when I think about it.
DeleteOh my this look soooo good!!
ReplyDeleteThank you :)
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