Ah,  yes I even give pet names to my baking ingredients, like lem-lems :) which are refreshing and oh so flavourful.

So there's the remnants of Patty's cake, which Clo said improved in appearance after a few days in the fridge.

she was eating another piece. we left the rest for her brother and father. i never did hear whether they liked it or not.

But since I had extra lemons, and a new lemon dessert book (Luscious Lemons by Lori Longbotham) (doesn't all that alliteration make you dizzy...), I made, from said book,

Lemon Shortbread

which wasn't really very nice, maybe because of the lemon extract. It had a rather strong fake-lemon taste. But the family ate it anyway. Oh there was

Passionfruit Curd (from How to be...)

to go with the shortbread. I would eat the curd by itself, and I've had multiple breakfasts with white bread dipped in a bowl of this. YUMS. But going back to the lemons. I wanted to have something to bring to church, so I got my cousin to help me make

Lemon Curd and Shortbread Bars

they look better than they taste? now the cookbook is in the "dubious" category. despite the many 5-star reviews on Amazon. 

which used up all the leftover lemon curd, and had a very curious "shortbread base" since it used dark brown sugar. But this was nice- a good kick-start to a Sunday morning, but some people found in a little too sour. It also didn't hold up very well outside of the fridge, since the toppind wasn't baked,

I also ate the last 5 pieces for breakfast on Monday. I remembered to take a photo of the last piece.

bright yellow lem-lem!