Add equal parts juice to 1/2 that amount of olive oil, then black pepper to suit and fresh minced garlic to taste and you have a hell of a pork marinade for grilling. Then you could take one cup of equal parts juice andd an equivalent of vodka and ice and drink this while watching the meat marinade. Drinks can be repeated as needed.
Originally posted by calgarychef1: Another trick is to juice the lemons or limes and freeze the juice....it keeps a long, long time.
Good idea but I've already done it and got half a freezer full of the stuff!
I'm leaving them on the tree until they fal of and am picking up at least a hundred a week and the tree has already flowered and is developing the next lot!
Ah well, I'd be bleating a lot more if I didn't get any fruit huh!
Key Lime Pie. You can find a recipe on the net. It's a dessert common in restaurants on the Gulf Coast or anywhere in the South. I was introduced to it on my first trip to Sarasota, Florida back in the '70s. Pure delicious.
You can also use the limes for drinks including cherry limeade. A local drive-in sells a lot of that to go with fast food. Their's is carbonated. That can easily be done at home too.
As for oranges, the idea for slicing them and making candies is a good one, but I'd go it one better and on the oranges, dip the finished slices half way up in dark chocolate. That's actually my favorite candy done that way. They're not inexpensive at fine candy stores and somewhat hard to come by. Done right, you could probably sell them.
yup, we made regular key lime pies also but thanks for the tip.
The season is over now and I worked out that I gave about 800 limes away by the end, plus of course everything we used.
I reckon the tree has increased in size by about 30% since last year because of the rains and an awful lot of new fruit has already formed. I reckon the first lot will ripen in about 6 weeks time.
Luckily I have a buddy who's wife makes a lot of pickles & marmalade etc who will be able to use a fair number and I spoke to my local supermarket who have told me they'll take as many as I care to sell them.... I'm not really interested in the money but won't see them wasted and maybe they'll bring us in enough to pay for a posh dinner or two!
Boy I wish I could trade you a couple bushels of apples and pears for a couple bushels of limes!
Here is an interesting recipe that I read in a 1899 book on camping, for making powdered lemonade but would be great with limes too, which was just to squeeze the juice over sugar and let it evaporate. Anyway, if you are figuring out what to do with excess juice some flavored sugar might be fun for making deserts, or your own primitive powdered limeade (or make it and put in glass jars and give it away as presents to people.)
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Steve, are you sure you can keep your powder dry???? . I'm spoiled after eating oranges in Africa I can't stand the ones we get here NO taste and very little juice. bye the way could you send me some Marmite!!!!! we can't get it here dam uncivilized hey
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you'll be a few days late for the vappu festival, but no worries, it's all good. traditionally it is made with lemons, but limes and oranges both work very well!
dam uncivilized hey
lets feed a few to the crocs 
