Lemony Snood

Geez, another yellow post! I seem to be on a yellow kick. Is it because my friend the sun is appearing later and leaving earlier each day now? Each year, we watch it travel from behind the Golden Gate Bridge (in late December) to disappear out of sight beyond the right shoulder of Mount Tam (in late June) and I miss it so much this time of year, when it makes only a brief daily appearance.

If you're a regular reader of Zoomie Station, you have probably figured out that I'm a lemon freak. My motto is, "When in doubt, add lemon." I add lemon to salads, salad dressings, chicken, seafood, desserts - you name it, I love lemon on it. I even ordered lemon cake (with raspberry sauce and buttercream icing) for our wedding.

So, when I discovered in one of those fancypants cooking stores these little elasticized muslin hairnets to keep the lemon pips out of whatever I'm cooking, I bought a bag of them and brought them home.

This is a gadget I can recommend. Not only does it take up virtually no room in the gadget drawer (bet you have one, too - hope it's not as jumbled as mine!), they really work and they can be rinsed and reused several times before the elastic relaxes or the fabric tears, most satisfactory lemony snoods.

And, if you hold the lemon so clothed up to the light and squint just right, you can imagine that it's the returning sun. Can't you, huh, please?