Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Last week, R announced that one of his professors had requested that they all bake something and bring it to the Zoom class meeting. Hmmm...something about 'procrastibaking', that is to say heading into the kitchen to bake something when you should be studying. Well, it was college-sanctioned procrastibaking, so okay. He wanted to make lemon squares and called my parents to see if he could raid their Meyer lemon tree. Then he headed over there at 8 in the morning, baked, and had his plate of lemon squares ready for his class at 10:30am. Only one problem... R: Mom, maybe I need to learn to read for my writing class. C: What does that mean? R: The directions were to procrastibake cookies . I missed that part. C: Well, these are bar cookies! R: Really? C: Yep. R: Oh, good. After class, he commented, "Well, I wasn't the only one who didn't read the directions correctly. Other students brought brownies and other things shaped like that.   Ingredients  makes three 8...

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"Mom," said the Precise Kitchen Elf, "I signed up to bring lemon squares for my English class potluck on Thursday." Okay, remind me to get everything out for you on Wednesday. So, last night, he took a break from studying for finals to make a triple batch of lemon squares. One batch went to his potluck; a second batch went to work with Jake; and the final batch stayed home.  I haven't tried them, but I got an email from Jake's boss that read: "Your lemon bars..... Nailed it! The ratio of lemon to crust is perfection. Truly made my morning. Thank you!!!!!"  Ingredients makes two 9" x 13" pans Crust 4 C flour 1 C organic powdered sugar 1-1/2 C butter (3 sticks), cold and cubed 2 to 3 T cold water 2 to 3 T limoncello or gin (or more water if you don't want to use alcohol) zest from 2 organic Meyer lemons ground almonds, as needed Topping 8 eggs 2 C organic granulated sugar 1/2 C flour ...