What the fuck do I cook with all these lemons? Some of them are the size of my fist. I don't want to make anything loaded with sugar (lemonade, tarts, etc), but I don't want them to go to waste. What would you anons cook that uses up a decent amount of lemons?

Stick them up your butt

Stick them up your femboy butt

>>21479759 (OP)
Dry garlic ribs with a lemon slice you drip on it as garnish

That's the best I got.

>>21479759 (OP)
lemonade pie

Host a lemon party

>>21479759 (OP)
Press or separate oil the essential oil from the peels, juice the fruit.

>>21479759 (OP)
just leave them for the lemon whores if you don't want them

>>21479791
Hell no, fuck those lemon stealing whores

>>21479759 (OP)
Just make some lemonade without a whole lot of sugar. It's better a little tart anyway.

Asian people make salted lemons (chanh muoi). Try that. You basically just clean the lemons, slice them and then pack them in a large container with salt and let them sit for a few months. Better than letting them rot, I suppose.

Lemon curd.

>>21479820
this sounds similar to lemon confit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caryvTePmRQ
some recipes use just salt, some just sugar, some a mix or even with other flavorings. but I’d try it if I had a tree. Also lemon curd makes a nice gift and is pretty easy

Make a big jug of home made lemonade and keep it in your fridge.Also watch out for those lemon stealing whores

Id probably make a little bit of everything

Lemon infused alcohol.

>>21479759 (OP)
Sell them and use the money to buy ingredients for non-lemon dishes.

Give them to your neighbours.

>>21479759 (OP)
make gallon jugs of tom collins

Lemon Marmalade will keep for bloody ages. It is sugary but you don't have to use too much of it at once

>>21479820
>>21479844
This, tbdesu.
Pickle them, then use in any fatty dish.

>>21479759 (OP)
JUICE THEM AND ICE CUBE FREEZE THEM AND KEEP THEM IN THE FREEZER TO HAVE FRESH LEMON JUICE YEAR ROUND TO AVOID SCURVY.

>>21479759 (OP)
lemon shrimp, lemon chicken, lemon duck, lemon fish, lemon pepper, lemon cake, lemon ice cream, lemonade, lemon preserves, lemongrass, lemon pops

Put one in the microwave for a minute or two, cut a whole in the bottom, ho presto you have an organically-sourced onahole.
Makes a refreshing, tangy snack afterwards too!pwjwv

>>21480550
*onawhole

>>21479759 (OP)
lemon cream
lemon cider
lemon vinegar
lemon fried chicken.

>>21479759 (OP)
Where do you live where your lemon tree is doing this well? Do they just grow slowly? I've had mine for a few years, kept indoors except in the height of summer. Maybe it's because I'm in the uk?

>>21480630
The only place I've lived where lemon trees do well is California, and even so you have to shelter them in winter when they're young. If you live in a place which gets significant frost or snow in winter, you'll have a hard time growing any citrus.

>>21479759 (OP)
our lemon tree put out 664 lemons last year. we gave a bunch away. juiced them, my wife made lemon jelly, and all sorts of deserts to give away. we gave a ton of them to a bakery her god son runs.

>>21480630
I live in a desert where it can get up to 120 degrees freedom. a lemon tree will never grow, or produce much sitting inside in a planter it needs to be in the ground, and protected from freezing in the winter.

>>21480640
Meanwhile my piece of shit blood orange tree hasn’t produced a single god damn fruit in 5 years

>>21480643
has it blossomed? it won't produce anything until it gets flowers. also it may need to be pollinated to get fruit.

>>21480642
>Can't sit in a planter
>Needs to be outside
>Can't freeze
Yeah I'm boned.

>>21480654
if you put it outside and there is a freeze generally you just need to cover it with a clothe sheet. you can prune the tree to keep it small so you can cover it. you just want to keep the plant above about 33 degrees freedom. putting an old incandescent light bulb inside it can do that.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far, plenty of good ones I'll look into.

What are some dishes you guys put lemon juice in, since I can freeze that and have it all year round?

>>21480630
South Australia. I almost got rid of it because it looked half dead when I bought the place 5 years ago, but after some watering and feeding it turned into a monster lemon producing tree.

limoncello

>>21479759 (OP)
Use them in salad dressing instead of vinegar.

Pan sauce for fish.

Pico de gallo

Kachumber

Pipirrana

Lemon chicken

Make preserved lemons for tagine

etc...

>>21481264
Lemon drizzle cake, lemon curd, lemon thumbprint cookies, courgette and lemon risotto, lemon chicken, sticky prawns with caramelised lemon, lemon and elderflower traybake, lemon syllabub. Knock yourself out, shitbrick

>>21479820
>>21479983
This again, but even better, spicy Indian lemon pickle.

Otherwise this:
>>21479876
>>21481282
Specifically limoncello. Although you said you're in Australia, the cost of rectified spirit might not be worth the effort, based on what I've heard about Aus liquor prices.

>>21479905
>Give them to your neighbours.
Nice idea, but in this lawless day & age I'd be way of sending the message that "anon's lemons are free for the taking", that's just inviting trespassers. I'd rather give the extras to family & friends (lol), but only if I thought they might actually use them.

My other suggestion would be trying a lemon-based BBQ/marinade sauce, which would involve sugar of course, but you know that citrus slaps on fish, shellfish, chicken, and pork.

>>21481961
>I'd be way of
*wary of

>>21479759 (OP)
Huck them at people.

>>21479759 (OP)
put salt on them, and suck the juice out, guaranteed to rot your teeth. my brother rotted his teeth doing this.

>>21479844
Yeah, it’s basically the same thing, except the Vietnamese people I know just use salt. They add the salty syrup to sodas, a lot, to give it more electrolytes, like Gatorade, I suppose. Not too sure what they do with the flesh. I made my own lemon confit using Bruno’s recipe before. It was kino.

>>21482613

Just thinking about lemons makes my mouth water. I fucking love eating lemons but I rarely do, because they make my teeth hurt and I can't eat anything else for a day because it hurts too much to chew anything. But then my teeth heal and I want to eat more lemons. I slice them up into quarters and chomp down on them, I leave nothing but the skin. Lemons are so good but they shouldn't hurt so much.

There must be a way to make sour things that don't destroy your teeth.

>>21479759 (OP)
sell them. if thats too much work put them in a bucket on the front yard and label it free lemons

>>21483238
you dumbass wash your mouth out and stop letting acid rest on your teeth

>>21479759 (OP)
If you like sour candy/snacks then lemon chips are amazing. Just cut them into relatively thin slices, then bake them directly on the rack at low heat until they become slightly crispy. They also keep very well so it's a good way to make use of all the extra lemons that you'd have thrown out otherwise