Some Words

As a fan of mixing cocktails at home, instead of watching a bartender dumb “Sour Mix” into my glass, I go through a lot of citrus. That means a lot of discarded hulls in my trash. I like to minimize food trash as much as possible. Its a sort of weird outflow parents telling you about starving children, and an inherent absent minded tendency to let food spoil. I’ve wasted so much that at this point I’ve gotten a little weird about trying not to waste any more.

To that end, tonight I candied a bunch of orange peels. Now, I’m sure lemon would work well too, but has anyone tried lime? Mark got me started on Shaker Lemon Pie which uses the whole lemon, and is magical. He tried orange and I thought it turned out better than he did. Lime was another story. I’m told that my face was quite comical as I tried to swallow the single bite of that lime pie. The peel was horrible. It was like eating pie from an H.P. Lovecraft story. Words like unfathomable and unknowable come to mind. Would trying to candy lime peel be the same thing? I’m guessing yes, but maybe a friend has tried this?