I made some lemon bars Friday night. The lemon part is supposed to receive a dose of yellow food coloring -- without it the bars are bland beige -- but I didn't have yellow. So I used red. When I tasted the batter, my first thought was, Mmmm, strawberry. Weird, how suggestible I am.
So I stuck 'em in the oven for 20 minutes but forgot to set the timer. You can see where this is going, can't you? An hour and 20 minutes later Maggie said, Hey, what about those lemon bars?
I whipped them out of the oven and they looked... normal (except for, you know, the pink). So we decided not to tell Smokey and Matthew about the boo-boo (they were on a Menard's run for more staples and hand rail brackets). When they got home everybody had a lemon bar and glass of milk. The bars were fine. A tiny bit less creamy than usual, but fine. As of this writing, 36 hours later, then entire 9x13 pan is empty of bars.
Let this be a lesson to y'all. Instructions/recipes are... a suggestion.
In knitting news, I finished my socks.
Yarn: Opal Petticoat, slightly less than one-half a skein; yarn won in Carole's Tour de Fleece, 2007.
Pattern: generic toe-up, 64 st reduced to 60.
Needles: US#0.
You cannot tell from this photo but these socks are extra long. I decided last winter that drafts = death, and I don't want any. So these are long enough that, no matter how high my pant legs ride up when I sit down, no skin will show. (Please ignore that tiny bit of bare skin in the above photo. I had pulled my jeans leg up extra high so as to display the contrasting cuff. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
The yardage in this Opal skein was sooooo generous that, even though these socks are extra long, I have enough left for another pair of socks EXACTLY like these. The contrasting heels and toes and cuff probably have something to do with that.
Thanks, Carole!
Are you sure you don't like pink? ; ^)
Great socks!
Posted by: Cookie | 26 April 2009 at 02:08 PM
Nice! I made muffins this morning, and despite setting the heat to the recommended, and baking them for the recommended time, they burned. Sigh.
Posted by: Carrie | 26 April 2009 at 02:13 PM
And damn-it-all-to-hell if we don't still need socks when we've already had an 85 degree day and just want to run around sockless but can't! I wouldn't care what color lemon bars were as long as they were lemon-ey!
Posted by: deb | 26 April 2009 at 02:17 PM
The socks are beautiful! I'd love to have some just like them. ;)
I can't believe the lemon bars didn't burn!
Posted by: Suzanne (Yarnhog) | 26 April 2009 at 02:51 PM
Mm, now I want lemon bars SO BAD!
Posted by: Erika | 26 April 2009 at 03:35 PM
No pictures of pink lemonade bars?! What????? I demand you make more to photograph them for us. :D
Posted by: Chris | 26 April 2009 at 03:42 PM
I'm on my second pair of Opal socks, and I'm making them extra-long too, for the same reasons. I had a whole lot of yarn leftover with the first pair, and I have big feet.
Posted by: Amy | 26 April 2009 at 03:42 PM
Another vote for extra-long. The socks are cute as can be, too.
Posted by: cindy | 26 April 2009 at 04:06 PM
These socks are very cute! I, too, prefer longer legs/cuffs for my socks during the wintertime. Drafts, ick!
Posted by: limedragon :-: Harriet | 26 April 2009 at 05:29 PM
Lemon bars are the most forgiving dessert in the whole wide world. They can be pink and they don't care how long they live in the oven! Gotta love 'em!!
Posted by: Sheepish Annie | 26 April 2009 at 05:59 PM
Time for matching leg warmers.
I've never made lemon bars, and I'm a happy baker. The idea of cookign without chocolate never occurred to me!
Posted by: Jocelyn | 27 April 2009 at 01:10 AM
I'm thinking the lemon bars would look nice next to the socks, which are wonderful!
Posted by: Nora | 27 April 2009 at 05:55 AM
Gotta love a recipe that gives you that big a screw-up window...
I usually burn my last tray of cookies, because as they go in the oven I'm thinking "There! That's done!" and forget to set the timer.
Posted by: gayle | 27 April 2009 at 07:01 AM
Nice socks. Hmm, I don't think my lemon bar recipe calls for food coloring. And they come out looking lemony.
Posted by: Miss T | 27 April 2009 at 08:53 AM
Great socks!
Posted by: Sallie | 27 April 2009 at 10:57 AM
I do love lemon bars....
I love knee high socks - the higher the better...and I end up wearing them all year long. Just not on shorts & flip-flops days.
Posted by: cursingmama | 27 April 2009 at 12:38 PM
I did that once with pecan bars. They turned out fine too, I wonder what the story is. I really like the sock colors.
Posted by: Diane | 27 April 2009 at 08:19 PM
Back in pharmacy school, we learned all about how color and scent alters our perceptions of taste. People really wil think that a food or a cough syrup tastes like cherry if it is red - even if the flavoring is banana.
Posted by: trek | 28 April 2009 at 09:02 AM
Opal yarn comes in very generous balls, indeed. I knit mr beest a pair of Tiger socks with the Opal tiger yarn and they're knee high. The end result looks very tigerish, great to freak out his colleagues in the office!
Posted by: tinebeest | 28 April 2009 at 10:46 AM