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33 Years of Lemon

I got the day off yesterday for the first time in 34 years.

34 years, you say...and no day off? What’s that all about?

Well, I am talking about just one day of the year; my husband’s birthday. Until yesterday, I had a streak of 33 years in which I made my husband a unique lemon dessert for his birthday celebration.

His favorite flavor, as you can guess, is lemon.

I was challenged, for sure, as the years went by. I baked lemon cheesecake, made lemon tarts, lemon cake with lemon cream cheese frosting and even lemon pudding. The list goes on and on.

 

But this year we are traveling in France on a long-planned vacation. We are in the wine country around Bordeaux.

I do have a little kitchen where we are staying but it made no sense to buy all the stuff I would need to make a lemon dessert. If I were to make a cake I’d need the flour, the leavening agent, eggs and more. Just too much stuff.

So when my husband came back to the place we are staying the other day and announced that he’d seen the cutest little lemon loaf cake in a window of a French pastry shop I hatched my plan.

I could buy that cake and just make a sauce to go with it. So voila! I made a raspberry coulis sauce and topped a little piece of the cake with that and some whipped cream. Bingo. Lemon dessert with just five minutes of work and one little saucepan to wash....

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