I’ve been fantasizing about citrus the past couple of days. You see, back in California, our orange tree and meyer lemon tree were both producing tons of fruit when we moved. I’ve been fairly non-sentimental about the entire house sale until today. I woke up to find a small, rainy snow flurry outside my window this morning and I craved something citrus.

You can see from my living room window that the street down below was quite a mess. I ventured out into the rain toward the small triangle shaped building in the middle of this photograph. It’s Urban Fare, a small (and expensive) upscale grocery store that’s close by.

I decided to make lemon bars, but as I walked I started thinking about blood oranges. I’ve never had one and they intrigue me. I wondered what the lemon bars would turn out like if made with blood oranges. Fortunately, the store had baskets of Moro Blood Oranges waiting for me.
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