How to: Freeze Lemon Juice

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When Tiffany and I made Lemon Pull-Apart Bread recently, we used a lot of lemon zest but just a little bit of lemon juice. She asked me if I was going to make lemonade with all the leftover juice (which is a great idea), but I love to keep lemon juice in the freezer so it’s easy to use in recipes without having to buy lemons and juice them each time.

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Quick and Easy Chicken Piccata

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This restaurant-style chicken piccata is on the cover of Cuisine At Home magazine. Chicken Piccata is one of my favorite dishes to eat at restaurants, so it’s great to have a fabulous recipe to make at home. And this recipe is fabulous! It’s quick and easy and my family loved it.

Coincidentally, Pam, For the Love of Cooking, and Jamie, Mom’s Cooking Club, also posted this recipe recently and their families loved it too. It really is a must try. In fact, I liked it so much that I made it twice in the last few weeks. I hoped to get better pictures the second time, but it’s so hard for me to get a decent picture at dinnertime this time of year.

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Easy Crushed Lemon Drop Sugar Cookies

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This is a sweet, lemon-bar-tart cookie drizzled with a lemon glaze while warm for an added burst of flavor. If you’re looking for a quick and easy to make cookie that uses a cookie mix to speed up the process, you’re going to love this one. This recipe is featured this month on the Betty Crocker website.

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Lemon Glazed Christmas Wreath Cookies

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Marcellina, Marcellina in Cucina, posted beautiful lemon glazed wreath cookies two weeks ago and I immediately wanted to try them. It’s a not too sweet butter cookie with a sweet but tart lemon glaze shaped little a wreath. Perfect for the holidays. The recipe was originally printed in Australian Women Weekly so it was in metric measurements. I thought about converting it but then decided someone else had probably already converted it, so I Googled it and found the converted recipe on Maria’s Menu. Not only did Maria have the recipe, she also had a link to a video teaching how to shape the wreaths!

I talked my son in to making these with me. It’s a bit time time consuming to shape them, but easier than rolling out and cutting sugar cookies. Our first wreaths were a little ugly but after a while we got better at it, but they all look pretty after they were glazed. I didn’t love this cookie without the glaze because it isn’t very sweet, but after they were glazed with the tart but sweet glaze, I couldn’t get enough of them.

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Mini Cheesecakes with Lemon Curd

Mini Cheesecakes with Lemon Curd_thumb[5]  Instead of cake for his birthday, my husband asked me to make him a cheesecake with a tart lemon topping similar to the Lemon Cream Cheese pie they serve at Marie Callender’s. My wonderful son gave me a mini cheesecake pan for Christmas, so this was the perfect opportunity to give it it’s maiden ... read more...