Lovely recipes to try with lemons

Valerie O’Connor says life would lose its zest without the versatile citrus.

If there is one thing I can’t be without in the kitchen, (after a brain blowing cup of coffee, of course), it is the amazing lemon. A life without lemon doesn’t bear thinking about, ok there are worse things, but seriously, let’s think of the ways that the lemon makes life better.

Firstly they look great, what a unique shape and a bright and cheerful colour, the colour of the sun and the first flowers on a cold Spring day. Lemon lends itself to so many things in the kitchen, from making curd to cake, souring cream for a spicy chili and squeezing over fish are some of the more obvious ones.