Lemons in Postcards 4

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Starting down an isle at Smart & Final, my eye was caught by a giant bag of lemons. Lemons en mass. Many lemons, small but in a potent yellow. Lots a lemons….and sucked in by the color I added the bag to my cart.

Do I have a need for all these lemons? Not at all. They sure do add color to my living room. What to do with them? Perhaps a lemon cake? Not one of my hundred or so cook books had a good lemon cake. And I looked. So I started dinner and came upstairs to check online.

What I found was two sites that specialized in cake mix adaptations. That’s me. I make a giant sheet cake every Sunday using three cake mixes. All the adaptations I found called for sour cream. One cup of sour cream per box of cake mix. Now that would be fine if I were just making one regular, two layer cake. I cannot see using three cups of sour cream for the two hundred some drunks with the cost coming out of George’s pocket.

Personally, I don’t need the calories. Maybe the newcomers do need the calories. I’m not using the suggestions, but those cake mix adaptations sure do sound good.

Perhaps I’ll make lemonade.

• Himself: Worked hard yesterday. Got B’s old mixer repaired and waxed. Dinner, games, TV.
• Herself: Committed to a Wednesday afternoon women’s meeting. Gaining weight. Read, swim, read blogs, grocery shop
• Reading: Book 3 in Moon’s Vatta series.
• Balance: Fixing a really nice dinner last night with no desert. Stouffer’s lasagna, caprese salad, tiny amount of spaghetti.