::Cuddles with Amy on the lemon-haters bench::

I like lemon in things: lemon bars, lemon meringue pie, lemon thins, frozen lemon custard. Just...don't put lemon on my fish, or in my drinks. Unless it's lemonade, and then go crazy.

Amy, ALSO DED.

Yup, Connie, straight. I will never, ever, EVER have scurvy.

My mom says when she was pregnant with me, she craved lemons with salt, so I totally blame this lemon thing on her.

I really have to be careful when cooking things with lemon for Dan, because my acceptable lemony-ness is not normal. I DO make one hell of a lemon chicken with pecan pilaf, and lemon bars with Meyer lemon juice.

I also hate my nose, although it's my dad's so I feel like I should give it a break, since he's awesome. S. has a lovely elegant nose, which the children seem to have inherited, and this is a comfort to me.

t /channeling Amy March

It's my name I always thought was too young. I love it now, but for a long time I was convinced Amy was just not a grownup name.

My favorite use for lemons is to halve them, sprinkle sea salt on my chopping block, and scrub it down using the lemon to scrub the salt in. The salt and lemon bleach everything, the coarse salt scrubs, and the surface is clean with no icky chemical nastness. Running lemon innards and peels (after juicing) through the disposal is good, too. And I do dry lemon peel, like orange and tangerine peel, for leather, which I use in chunks in my oil burner, along with herbs and spices.

My favorite use for lemons is to halve them, sprinkle sea salt on my chopping block, and scrub it down using the lemon to scrub the salt in. The salt and lemon bleach everything, the coarse salt scrubs, and the surface is clean with no icky chemical nastness.

Ooh, I like that. I may have to try it.

I am a big fan of lemon. I don't eat them straight, but other than that. Every now and then they sell lemon fruit drink here (which is awesome as long as it's not too sweet), but it always gets discontinued and winds up tasting of betrayal.

I really got the perfect blend of the family's noses, which is lucky, because both are pretty strongly expressed. Most of my maternal cousins have my mom's nose, and Dad's side...yeah, them too. Dad's side tends to...roman? I think? The maternal side is a bit of an aggressive ski jump. I got the bridge from mom's and the small end from dad's. I like it.

I'm tahred tonight.

Lemon in water is nasty.

Or at least irritating.

::Saves a seat for Dana::

I am on Team Lemon. For people who were wondering.

I also like my nose fine, especially given many of the alternatives in my family.

I miss having two productive lemon trees in my backyard, and a lime in the front yard. So easy to indulge when the mood cried lemon! Now I'm horrible. I'll buy a few at the store and 1 or 2 of them always end up not getting used and turning gross.