I could tell you how these robust, juicy, large lemons had been harvested from our well cared for, fertilised, irrigated and mulched Meyer Lemon tree or I could just be honest and tell you they’re coming off a bush lemon tree happily growing wildly amongst the lantana on a creek flat in the middle of a paddock just recently grazed by 600 odd weaners ….. who’d know!

At the Garden Day we hosted way back in April, a few ladies asked if I’d share the recipe for a Lemon Blossom Slice that we had on offer. Amongst lemon butter, lemonade and lemon tea, I just remembered that I hadn’t yet shared the slice recipe so here goes:

It goes without saying, that this recipe doubles well, just use two lamington tins! It also freezes well …. although in this house it doesn’t last long and more often than not you’ll find an empty container in the freezer as little hands help themselves.

While smoko is a big hit here, and we often have a baked goodie, my kids are also huge consumers of fruit. To keep up with the in-house demand and overcome the obstacles of living some two hours away from a grocery store, we’ve started to buy our apples, oranges, mandarins, pears and of course vegetables from a green grocer. The beauty of this is we can buy large quantities in cartons, just like the olden days. In keeping with our family philosophy of old meets new, I simply text my order through and then collect (or in today’s instance have someone collect and deliver). Marvellous!

East St Fruit & Vege Warehouse is located in Rockhampton (and obviously in East St) We’ve had around six orders from them to date. Each time the produce has been exceptional, both in taste, freshness and longevity. 

Of course, I have no recommendation on their lemons though!

There are 4 comments on this article:

• On 22/07/2014 Erin said:

  We’re blessed with a couple of mandarin and an orange tree (as well as a lemon) anyhow the kids love eating the fruit straight off the tree. We’ve been buying fruit by the box load though from our local green grocers for nearly two decades and he looks after us so well.
  how far are you from your green grocers?

• On 23/07/2014 Ainsley said:

  It’s a great way to buy fruit isn’t it Erin? We’re a 2 hour trip to the grocer.

• On 23/07/2014 sharon said:

  I’m seriously thinking I need a cold room to keep up the food supplies in bulk here!
  how often do you need to replenish that fruit order?

• On 23/07/2014 Ainsley said:

  Couldn’t live without our cold room now …. only have one fridge in the kitchen and the cold room is a little trek over to the shed (handy having plenty of kids to send to fetch things!) We’re stretching the fruit order over about 3 to 4 weeks, and at end of the time we’re still eating fresh fruit!