Question Time With Linda

I get a lot of questions from my readers, and I would like to start answering some of them from time to time on my blog.

Here is one of the most frequently asked questions:

Q: I recently ordered some lemon bars from you, and honestly they are the most delicious thing I have ever tasted. I know that you probably don't share recipes, but could you please tell me how you make this scrumptious treat? I would be willing to even buy the recipe from you. Name your price!!

--Marsha Stewvart, Conn.

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A: Thank you so much for that great compliment!!! I'm glad that you enjoyed your luscious lemon bars, and thank you for ordering them. Honestly Marsha, even if I could give you the recipe, (and if I did, I would have to KILL you), I don't think that they would turn out the same as mine, because you see, I have a secret. However, I am willing to share the "secret" with you.

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You see, I grow my own Lemons!!!! I know, I know what you are thinking.

You are thinking, "Gee she doesn't live in Florida, California or Arizona, does she? " Well, that is true. I do live in the mountains, but amazingly enough, I still grow my own lemons!!!!!

Here you can see my little granddaughter in a rare moment when I actually let her touch the tree right before I harvested the lemon. (Usually the kids aren't even allowed to LOOK at the tree) I use only home-grown, fresh Meyers Lemons for my lemon bars.

Anything else just won't do.

That lemon tree is my BABY. I have been nursing it for 5 years, and thanks to my son and daughter-in-law, who brought it back from the dead once, it is alive and doing well. It flowers in the spring and fall with blossoms that smell like honeysuckle, and it produces about 10 lemons every december. Next to my grandkids, that tree is my most prized possession. ---just for the record, if that tree could walk and talk and destroy, I wouldn't let IT look at my grandkids.