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nogaga
May 28, 2012
Thank you for highlighting this recipe. I thought it was easy and fab! I just made it, following the epicurious instructions and using up some late backyard lemons with a beautiful aroma and an unknown pedigree. The color is amazing!
BettinaS
May 20, 2012
I came across this blog looking for something to do with the bounty of Meyer lemons I came across this week, but I'm staying (or subscribing) because of your wonderful story telling. I once was a Los Angeleno living in D.C., bemoaning the lack of quality citrus and expensive artichokes, avocados, and asparagus just the same, but really barely realized what I was missing until I moved back to California.
As far as bread and bakers, I'll ditto your recommendation for Atwater's (they are also at the Dupont Farmers' Market on Sundays), and Uptown Bakery, particularly their sliced wheat bread. I dream of finding a wheat bread so good in my new SF Bay Area stomping grounds.
As far as bread and bakers, I'll ditto your recommendation for Atwater's (they are also at the Dupont Farmers' Market on Sundays), and Uptown Bakery, particularly their sliced wheat bread. I dream of finding a wheat bread so good in my new SF Bay Area stomping grounds.
bostongal
May 20, 2012
thanks for another great must make recipe to add to my ever growing stack. I am going to weigh 300# very shortly LOL.
I remember my first trip to CA and AZ where I discovered that the avocados that I pay a whopping $3 a piece for here were 10 for $10. I also was in heaven with all the citrus - went on a little citrus binge while staying out there (eating, baking with, buying, making different iced teas...) but then I returned home where these jewels are not quite so abundant (or cheap). Sigh.
As for the Metro in DC - nice clean trains is a plus but every city has it's public trans issues. Having been all over the country I think we have one of the best here in Boston but still it has issues - raising rates all the time with less service, shutting down at 1 a.m., old trains, old tracks and the list goes on.
Hope you get a good Bakery your way soon!
Meg
I remember my first trip to CA and AZ where I discovered that the avocados that I pay a whopping $3 a piece for here were 10 for $10. I also was in heaven with all the citrus - went on a little citrus binge while staying out there (eating, baking with, buying, making different iced teas...) but then I returned home where these jewels are not quite so abundant (or cheap). Sigh.
As for the Metro in DC - nice clean trains is a plus but every city has it's public trans issues. Having been all over the country I think we have one of the best here in Boston but still it has issues - raising rates all the time with less service, shutting down at 1 a.m., old trains, old tracks and the list goes on.
Hope you get a good Bakery your way soon!
Meg
calendargirl
May 17, 2012
It will be interesting to see how Paul does with U.S. ingredients, or do they bring French butter with them? Has anyone tried their outpost in Georgetown on Wisconsin? Meanwhile, I recommend a surprising place in Bethesda, Praline Bakery & Cafe on Sangamore Road, in an unlikely mall.
mariaraynal
May 15, 2012
Jennifer, you always make me smile. Love this post, the lumpy tart, all of it!
DAVILCHICK
May 15, 2012
I laffed out loud over the man with the metro card around his neck and I felt your anguish over having to now live in a city with no left turn lanes. Seems barbaric, doesn't it? I'll give this recipe a try although it's sounding a little high maintenance-y for me but it does look like the perfect summer tart.
Jestei
May 15, 2012
no i just make it sound like it all takes a long time; it's not really HM i don't really do HM (except for nail care)
ATG117
May 14, 2012
Your column is one of my favorites, and the color of that tart is spectacular. But I gotta say, I'd wear a metro card around my neck if they'd make the NYC subways as clean as the DC metro. Oh, how I long for days waiting 14 minutes on the platform when I'm crammed onto a smelly 4,5 every morning.
Jestei
May 15, 2012
Isn't that color downright sexy?? I can send you an entire screed on the short comings of the metro, beginning with constantly broken escalators (which matters since they are a million miles underground here) and ending with the fact that it does not service vast swaths of the city. But the grass is definitely always greener in someone else's (smelly) commute. Happy eating :)
Rhonda35
May 14, 2012
It's been 17 years since I lived in the DC area, but Firehook used to make really good bread. I know it's still around and has several locations...is it not so good anymore??
Jenny, I would eat that lumpy tart just so I could hang out with you and listen to all your funny stories. Happy Mother's Day, one day late.
Jenny, I would eat that lumpy tart just so I could hang out with you and listen to all your funny stories. Happy Mother's Day, one day late.
Jestei
May 15, 2012
Firehook -- meh. I do like their ginger snaps, which are as big as my face. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
Devangi R.
May 14, 2012
The tart looks simply divine. I am biased for bright yellow color. I am totally in for the olive oil in the use of tart shell.How could I not? I have added pistachio oil in my mango cheesecake.
Devangi R.
May 17, 2012
J which brand or company of Pistachio Oil do you suggest? Right now I am using La Tourangelle.
I would like to learn which is the best or better.
I would like to learn which is the best or better.
jenniebgood
May 14, 2012
This looks amazing. I actually still have some Meyers left over from March (!)- I've been checking them weekly hoping they will keep and hoping something will inspire me.... Maybe it's fate.....
BlueKaleRoad
May 14, 2012
Ahh, to have citrus growing in my backyard...I miss my LA days. How very kind of your friend to share! I think this lemon tart is the perfect post-Mother's Day treat to indulge in - love the almonds and olive oil in the crust.
lazychef
May 14, 2012
Yes WHYYY are there no good bakeries in DC? I'm a bread fiend; this tortures me on a weekly basis.
MrsWheelbarrow
May 14, 2012
None. Not a single good bakery. But I will extol the virtues of Atwater's, at the Bethesda Central Farm Market. Their seeded rye is almost as good as the one I haul back from NYC every single visit.
Cortni R.
May 15, 2012
You know we are in a baked goods wasteland (save Baked and Wired) when the only bread offering at the farmer's market is Great Harvest.
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