OMG yum

[elainegrey]

Decide to make preserved lemons after reading a half dozen different instructions, with the plan to go the saltier route: just salt and lemon juice, essentially packing the lemons in salt.

The next day, pick the top cluster of leaves off a sage plant. Read about browning butter. Spoon off a tablespoon of salty lemon juice into a small measuring cup. Melt unsalted butter, watch the swirl, the foam go from white to pale gold. Add the sage, stir and keep looking for the color to change. Decide maybe it's not hot enough. Turn up the heat. Swirl. Decide to add the salty lemon juice - whatever. Swirl. Decide it's probably fine enough and turn off the pan - except really go to high. Watch the butter foam. Puzzle, look at the dial, pull it off the eye. Look at the deep chestnut color the butter has taken. Slowly pick the sage out. Nibble on the sage: it's crispy, the lemon salt is incredible.

Put all the remaining crispy sage bits on a cracker and savor.

I've tried frying sage before but i think i must have used olive oil. This was completely different. I'll add this over broccoli to roast.

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

It IS incredible. I keep a 2Q jar in the fridge.

[elainegrey]

The butter or the preserved lemons? The lemons taste like sunshine ocean water.

[threemeninaboat]

LOL the lemons.

[sonia]

Wow, thanks for sharing the sensory delight!

[cmcmck]

Yum! :o)

[warriorsavant]

Sounds yummy. Was looking for my recipe for Moroccan preserved lemons to send you, but can't find it. Basically put lemons (Meyer's lemons) in a jar with lots of salt and spices. Let sit for 3 months. Use ground bits of the peel.

[elainegrey]

I saw lots of recipes with the spices, but also advice that by not adding the spices one could use the lemon in many more contexts. Everyone also highly praises Meyer lemons and I then pout about leaving my Meyer lemon tree in California. ( I don't have a good sunny place inside here for one.) I'm pretty sure I would make a Shaker lemon pie if I had many Meyers at hand.

[elainegrey]

Also, sigh, two months and twenty eight days to go.