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Default Greek and/or mediterranean inspired dishes?

Steve Pope wrote:
> sf > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:45:06 -0500, Tracy > wrote:

>
>>> I have reused the brine. But it gets kind of icky so I would only reuse
>>> once then start over again.

>
>> Once again, Thanks!

>
>>> As a matter of fact, I had just one lemon
>>> left my current jar when I found Meyers at the local produce market so I
>>> just cut, salted and threw them in. I put the "done" lemon on top so I
>>> could reach it easily.

>
>> so, it is done... just not repeatedly. thanks

>
> As another datapoint, we've never re-used the brine, but our
> starting position is having more Meyer lemons than we could
> possibly use up (not our trees, but those of two neighbors).
> So we use Meyer lemon juice rather than bottled juice.
>
> Steve


If I only had a lemon tree in my backyard.....I would totally use fresh
lemons. But, alas, I don't so I don't mind using the bottled stuff for
this.

-Tracy