Over the weekend, the man zoomed off to Tekka Market and came back with about 70 huge Tahiti limes and painstakingly squeezed about 3 litres of fresh lime juice. Oh man, that lime juice is sourly potent. Just a little bit of it and it's enough for a zesty drink. This lime juice can keep for a week in the fridge.
We can have lime sodas (iterally how the Vietnamese do soda chanh) all day of course. But the whole point of the exercise, is to make mojitos with a complex 12y.o Angostura 1824. Mojitos taste best when made with quality ingredients, and dark rum. It's very nice to get royally drunk on good mojitos that few bars could reproduce.
We had so much lime juice that we had to share. We handed over a litre of concentrated juice to the dessert angel to do whatever she wants with it. And also to feed tons of antioxidants to the family. However, the woman sneakily baked us a key (Tahiti) lime pie and sent it over to the house when we weren't home! Tsk! Naughty naughty. The juice is meant for her! And not meant for her to 'process' and return to us in the form of a pie!
It's a beautiful pie. I can taste the lime! Woaaaah. And the sour properties definitely tempted the dessert angel to plonk in the sugar. It's ummm......so sweet that I only had 3 bites and I bounced off the walls. Those 3 bites had to be tempered with sour berries. The man happily finished the rest. There's only half a pie left...
Next time, I'll find you incredibly crunchy Granny Smith cooking apples and send you a whole crate. *cackles*
7 comments:
Ooh... my favourite kind of pie!! ;) I'll make you some key lime pie with no so much sugar if u send the juice along my way! Hehe. ;p
Done :)
And there were only two tablespoons of sugar in the crust and another two in the filling!
hmmm...i never tried making key lime pie. working with lime is just more tricky than lemon.
ladyJ: when we next make mojitos!
dawn: deal! halve the sugar!
sinlady: i've no idea! why it's trickier. i only eat! but both citrus, sour, and juicy....?
i just think it's trickier because the tartness is harder to gauge :(
Oh my, i love key lime pie. I've not successfully made it though - still trying!
sinlady: ohhh.
Delphine: try? Although I keep getting the impression u prefer cooking to baking! Heh.
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