100 Things To Do With A Meyer Lemon

IF Cézanne had lived not successful France but successful Southern California, his still lifes would person overflowed pinch Meyer lemons. Plump, smooth-skinned, colored an unmistakable acheronian yellowish -- canary yellow, nan colour of ovum yolks aliases nan sun astatine noon -- they’re sweeter than different lemons, pinch an intoxicating aroma that has hints of chromatic and thyme.

Now is nan cleanable clip to revel successful them, arsenic nan harvest peaks and farmers marketplace stalls, nutrient aisles and, if you’re lucky, backyard trees are loaded pinch fruit. A transverse betwixt a citrus and a saccharine orange, imported to nan U.S. from China precisely 100 years agone by nan man whose sanction they bear, nan Meyer citrus is simply a furiously addictive fruit.

With sweeter juice, a thinner peel, little acerb and a much floral scent (and taste) than different citrus varieties, Meyers are arsenic overmuch nosy to navigator pinch arsenic they would beryllium to paint.

In fact, we’re counting nan ways. High connected nan database are a fewer awesome recipes. Slide slices of Meyer lemons nether nan tegument of a brace of Cornish crippled hens, strew nan roasting cookware pinch more, past flip successful immoderate fennel and olives. Or effort cook Marcus Samuelsson’s method of quick-preserving citrus peels and usage nan consequence -- tart and salty and utterly lemony -- successful a fantastically colorful crockery of spicy piri piri shrimp and achromatic rice. On nan saccharine side, make a Meyer citrus crystal cream, loading nan custard pinch peel arsenic good arsenic juice -- and a hint of cardamom, nan spicy notes bringing retired nan floral extent of nan Meyer’s flavor. (This look is inspired by longtime Chez Panisse pastry cook Lindsey Shere, 1 of nan first to put Meyer lemons connected nan culinary map.)

There are astir apt much things -- successful heaven, connected Earth, successful citrus groves -- that you tin do pinch these yellowish beauties than we tin dream of. But we tin try.

Here are nan apical 100 things to do pinch a Meyer lemon.

1. Make Meyer lemonade.

2. Make roasted Cornish crippled hens pinch Meyer lemons, olives and fennel (see recipe).

3. Make shrimp piri piri with achromatic atom and cook Marcus Samuelsson’s “quick-preserved” Meyer lemons (see recipe).

4. Make Meyer lemon-cardamom crystal pick (see recipe).

5. Assemble sandwiches of thinly sliced lemons, smoked salmon and sour pick connected pumpernickel bread.

6. Candy nan peel, dusting pinch superfine sugar.

7. To a risotto made pinch mascarpone and Parmesan, adhd immoderate grated Meyer citrus peel.

8. Take a cue from Quinn Hatfield of Hatfield’s successful Los Angeles and move yourself a citrus gimlet (Meyer citrus juice and zest, soda h2o and Meyer citrus elemental syrup).

9. Rub a Meyer citrus peel astir nan rim of a demitasse of espresso.

10. Adapt Claudia Roden’s look for orange-almond barroom (in “The New Book of Middle Eastern Food,” nan screen of which features a vessel of Meyer lemons) by utilizing 2 ample Meyer lemons alternatively of oranges (see nan look astatine latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish).

11. If you don’t mind delayed gratification, make classical preserved lemons (different from cook Samuelsson’s because nan lemons are preserved slow complete weeks alternatively of quickly blanched and cooked) by filling a Mason jar pinch quartered Meyer lemons, one-fourth cup of kosher brackish and capable citrus juice to cover, and letting them beryllium successful your refrigerator for 3 weeks. Or, for other flavor, propulsion immoderate spices into nan jar too: a bay leaf, a cinnamon stick, immoderate achromatic peppercorns, a dried Thai chile, a cardamom pod.

12. Grate Meyer citrus peel into a bowlful of Chantilly cream.

13. Arrange bladed slices of Meyer lemons connected a pizza crust topped pinch goat cheese, rosemary and Picholine olives.

14. Make Meyer citrus curd.

15. Try your manus astatine individual Meyer citrus stiff soufflés.

16. Infuse your favourite oliva lipid pinch Meyer citrus peel: Warm a cup of oliva lipid and nan peel from 2 lemons complete very debased power for 15 minutes, past let to cool for half an hour. Strain and move into an ancient stoppered bottle.

17. For a Meyer citrus confit, navigator slices of lemons successful oliva lipid complete very debased power for an hour; coarsely chop, and adhd to a crockery of marketplace greens, goat food and candied walnuts.

18. Make a Meyer citrus gremolata pinch finely minced parsley, ail and citrus zest, past adhd to a cookware of osso bucco.

19. Roast quartered slices of Meyer citrus pinch oliva oil, rosemary and full shallots; service simply, pinch slices of grilled bread.

20. Infuse 70% Scharffen Berger chocolate, pick and h2o pinch Meyer citrus peel for a rich | cocoa crockery pinch a citrus note.

21. Make Meyer citrus chiffon cupcakes.

22. Enjoy it successful macaroon shape by buying a mates of cookies astatine Boule Atelier successful Los Angeles.

23. The adjacent clip you roast a duck, spot slices of Meyer citrus successful nan cavity.

24. Make Meyer citrus hollandaise sauce.

25. Serve a grilled food aliases food tacos pinch an accompanying bowlful of Suzanne Goin’s Meyer citrus salsa (from “Sunday Suppers astatine Lucques”; spot nan look astatine latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish).

26. Squeeze immoderate into your child’s hairsbreadth aft washing it, aliases earlier a time astatine nan beach.

27. Make Meyer citrus gelée.

28. Bake Meyer citrus meringue pie.

29. Cool disconnected by ordering a portion of Meyer citrus gelato pastry to nibble connected while you beryllium astatine nan barroom watching nan pizzas spell into nan oven astatine Pizzeria Mozza.

30. Use your classical (No. 11) aliases quick-preserved (No. 3) Meyer lemons successful a lamb tagine.

31. Squeeze nan juice from a lb aliases 2 of Meyer lemons and frost it successful an crystal cube tray; erstwhile frozen, shop nan cubes successful integrative bags successful nan freezer, for usage erstwhile Meyer citrus play is over.

32. When you make your favourite caramel sauce, infuse nan pick pinch Meyer citrus peel.

33. Drop slices of Meyer citrus into a classical tribunal bouillon.

34. Roast a full mackerel pinch slices of Meyer lemons stuffed inside.

35. Throw a Meyer citrus for your canine to drawback and play with; you’ll suffer nan lemon, but your dog’s activity will smell fantastic.

36. Drop a fewer slices into a cookware of iced tea.

37. Make a tisane, aliases herbal infusion, pinch Meyer lemons, caller mint and citrus grass.

38. Put a twist of Meyer citrus into a martini.

39. Make Meyer limoncello by steeping citrus peel successful a vessel of vodka for 2 weeks. Then strain nan infused vodka, operation pinch elemental syrup and much vodka, and vessel nan result.

40. Send a container of Meyer lemons to friends aliases relatives retired of state.

41. Serve quartered Meyer lemons pinch a sheet of gravlax, pumpernickel breadstuff and a condiment made from caller dill, honey, mustard and citrus zest.

42. Add Meyer citrus zest to French toast.

43. Whisk together a Meyer citrus beurre blanc (or beurre citron) -- trim citrus juice, shallots, brackish and pepper, past whisk successful cubes of acold food -- for a terrific cookware condiment to service pinch salmon aliases Arctic char.

44. For nan cleanable acold remedy, adhd nan juice of half a Meyer citrus and a pinch of cayenne to a beardown cookware of tea.

45. Add bladed slices of Meyer citrus to a cookware of cooking zucchini.

46. Make lemon-chocolate truffles: Infuse nan pick for a basal cocoa ganache pinch Meyer citrus peel.

47. Squeeze a Meyer citrus complete a freshly trim papaya aliases guava; nan acerb brings retired nan flavor.

48. Save nan Meyer citrus elemental syrup near complete from candying nan peel (No. 6), past usage it to make Bellinis (No. 74) aliases granitas (No. 49).

49. Make Meyer citrus granita by freezing a substance of citrus juice and elemental syrup, stirring it successful nan cookware from clip to clip arsenic it freezes.

50. Knead nan zest from a mates of Meyer lemons into nan mixed erstwhile you make oatmeal bread.

51. Make an avgolemono condiment by whisking Meyer citrus juice into beaten eggs, past whisking basking broth into this mixture. Serve nan condiment pinch food aliases steamed artichokes.

52. While making an pome pie, compression a Meyer citrus complete your pome slices to support them from discoloring -- and springiness them a boost of flavor.

53. Make a Meyer citrus crème Anglaise.

54. Whisk nan zest of a fewer Meyer lemons into your favourite meringue recipe.

55. Top pan-seared scallops pinch a compression of Meyer lemons.

56. Make Meyer citrus vinaigrette pinch other virgin oliva oil, Meyer citrus juice, a scatter of champagne vinegar, oversea salt, cracked achromatic capsicum and a small citrus zest.

57. Slice a fewer Meyer lemons and put them into your bath pinch a sprinkle of lavender and rosemary.

58. Throw nan peel of a Meyer citrus connected nan grill earlier cooking shrimp.

59. Make a crêpes suzette utilizing Meyer lemons alternatively of oranges.

60. Add classical (No. 11) aliases quick-preserved (No. 3) Meyer lemons to a stew made pinch duck and olives.

61. Muddle 2 sliced Meyer lemons and half a bunch of parsley (stems on) successful a two-quart pitcher. Fill pinch filtered h2o and support successful nan fridge for a spa h2o refresher.

62. Squeeze a wedge of Meyer citrus into a pint of hefeweizen.

63. Roast a operation of green, achromatic and cured olives pinch oliva lipid and a fewer Meyer citrus peels.

64. Make a Meyer citrus aioli for your crab cakes.

65. Pan-fry slices of Meyer citrus pinch babe artichokes.

66. To a tapenade (olives, capers, anchovies), adhd grated Meyer citrus peel.

67. Add classical aliases speedy preserved Meyer lemons to your champion harissa recipe.

68. Serve prunes soaked successful Armagnac (like those from a Paula Wolfert look that person been sitting successful my cupboard for complete a year) complete a vessel of vanilla crystal pick and apical pinch grated Meyer citrus peel.

69. Offer a generous proviso of Meyer citrus wedges pinch a boiled full Maine lobster and drawn butter.

70. Add quarters of Meyer lemons to kebabs of seared duck breast, Anjou pears and reddish onions.

71. Roast babe leeks successful a cookware pinch oliva oil, oversea brackish and Meyer citrus strips

72. Perfume your sweetener vessel by stirring strips of Meyer citrus peel down into nan sugar.

73. Add grated Meyer lemons to your favourite shortbread recipe.

74. Make a citrus Bellini pinch Prosecco, Meyer citrus juice, a small elemental syrup and strips of peel.

75. Take a extremity from nan early Romans, who utilized citrus juice arsenic a mouthwash, and compression a Meyer citrus onto your toothbrush astatine night.

76. Spread thinly sliced Meyer lemons crossed a full poached salmon.

77. Peel a full Meyer citrus successful 1 continuous agelong strand and driblet nan peel into a vodka martini.

78. Repeat No. 77, but driblet nan peel into a mug of basking chocolate.

79. Hollow retired nan interior of full Meyer lemons, capable them pinch Meyer citrus crystal cream, past frost them.

80. Squeeze a brace of Meyer lemons into a cookware of brownish butter, adhd capers, and past move nan condiment complete pan-fried skate.

81. Fry slices of Meyer citrus and service pinch French fries and Meyer citrus mayonnaise.

82. Squeeze a Meyer citrus complete a sheet of steak tartare; service pinch flatbread and a earthy duck egg.

83. Slice Meyer citrus peels into a jar of chromatic and let to beryllium for a fewer weeks: nan peel will perfume nan chromatic while it slow candies successful nan jar.

84. Squeeze wedges of Meyer lemons onto caller food tacos.

85. Smell them arsenic you prime them disconnected your character -- for illustration husbandman Peter Schaner, who says he doesn’t really navigator pinch nan Meyer lemons he harvests, but he really likes to smell them arsenic he picks them.

86. Open a Meyer lemonade guidelines connected your street.

87. Make Italian cook Gennero Esposito’s saccharine and sour citrus sauce, from “Adventures of an Italian Food Lover” by Faith Willinger (see nan look astatine latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish).

88. Push an old-fashioned citrus candy instrumentality into nan unfastened broadside of a halved Meyer lemon, past slow suck retired nan sugared juice.

89. Make a dipping condiment for grilled food aliases shrimp from Meyer citrus juice, caller chopped cilantro, basil and mint, minced garlic, ginger and chiles and food sauce.

90. Put a Meyer citrus studded pinch full cloves successful your lingerie drawer.

91. Next to a fewer slices of earthy albacore aliases yellowtail, driblet a mini spoonful of Esposito’s citrus condiment (No. 87).

92. Sprinkle a generous magnitude of Meyer citrus zest complete a sheet of spaghetti pinch bottarga.

93. Place a handbasket of Meyer lemons successful a woody vessel successful nan mediate of nan table.

94. Make maître d’hôtel food pinch French butter, minced caller herbs and finely minced classical (No. 11) preserved Meyer lemons.

95. Soak your grandmother’s aged linens successful a vessel of Meyer citrus juice and h2o to brighten them.

96. Top blueberry pancakes pinch a spoonful of Greek yogurt and grated Meyer citrus zest.

97. Grill slices of Meyer lemons pinch lipstick peppers and adhd to panzanella, aliases Italian breadstuff salad.

98. Pour Meyer lemonade (No. 1) into Popsicle molds, freeze, past manus retired to your ain aliases different people’s children.

99. Make Meyer citrus marmalade.

100. Observe it and its fellows connected nan character supra you, arsenic you sit, your backmost against nan trunk, preferably enjoying a picnic.

amy.scattergood@latimes .com