What do you do when life gives you limes?

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I like the saying ‘When life gives you lemons… make lemonade!’ But this time life gave me limes - three nets of four, to be precise, picked up from the reduced section when I popped to the local shop for a few staples. They were too much of a bargain to miss. So what to do with them? Well the first two I used, along with the one lemon we had at home, to make lemon-and-lime curd. I love lemon curd and have used the same recipe to make other types of citrus curd as well. Lemon-and-lime curd was a big success. Then the remaining ten I used to make lime pickle. I like Indian food and enjoy chutneys and pickles with curries as well as with ‘everyday’ foods like cheese sandwiches too. And the pickle was quite easy to make. It took a while - about ten days in fact - but most of that time was spent infusing so it wasn’t difficult. Today was the final step and now it gets left in its jars to mature for a while, so not quite the final product yet. But I did lick the spoon after filling the jars and that certainly gave me a buzz! Looking forward to trying it with a meal in a month or two. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.