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Tasty Tuesday

Lemon oil, like I had mentioned yesterday, is such a great oil because of how diverse it is! One of my all-time favourite ways to use lemon oil is in baking. Lemon tends to really bring out the flavours and is used in such a variety of recipes. First and foremost today we will start out with a fruit and veggie spray to help you prep your food for cooking and then we will have a really great recipe for dinner and dessert.

Fruit and Veggie Wash

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 5 drops lemon essential oil
  • 5 drops On Guard essential oil
  • Glass spray bottle

Instructions:

  1. Mix all ingredients together into spray bottle
  2. Spray onto fruit and veggies before consumption, and rinse off.

 

Brown Sugar Salmon

Ingredients:

  • 1 full salmon filet
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 4 drops lemon oil

Instructions:

  1. Mix brown sugar, butter, lemon juice, and lemon oil together in sauce pan.
  2. Warm over medium heat until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved.
  3. Put salmon filet into large freezer bag with the marinade sauce.
  4. Close bag tightly and let sit for at least 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat broiler.
  6. Cover broiler pan with foil and place fish on it with the flesh side up.
  7. Broil the fish until flaky.
  8. Drizzle some of the marinade over the fish well boiling if you desire.
  9. Cook fish until it is a light pink throughout.
  10. Place on serving plate and pour remaining marinade over it as desired.
  11. Enjoy!

Lemon Bars

Ingredients:

CRUST:

  • 1 cup softened butter (NOT melted)
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • Pinch of salt

FILLING:

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • 3 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • 6 drops lemon oil

TOPPING:

  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 drop lemon oil

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Mix butter, flour, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, and salt together.
  3. Press into the bottom of a 9×13″ pan lined with parchment paper.
  4. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
  5. Mix eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Add lemon juice, lemon oil, water, and cornstarch. Mix well.
  6. Pour mixture over semi cooked crust.
  7. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
  8. Mix powdered sugar, and lemon oil in a ziplock bag and shake it up.
  9. When lemon bars are done and cooled, sprinkle with lemon infused powdered sugar on top.
  10. Enjoy!

Hope you enjoy these recipes. As you may remember there are some other great recipes I posted a few weeks ago for lemon oil, so try those ones out too if you haven’t yet.

Do you have any ways that you like to use lemon oil in cooking or baking? Be sure to share them here!

See you tomorrow,

Kelsea

 

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From farm to table. 

With it being the end of strawberry season, I had to get out and get some fresh strawberries right from the field. Last night my boyfriend and I headed over to the local strawberry patch and after about an hour we had three heaping baskets of strawberries.


Now I had to figure out what to cook with the strawberries. I love cooking with essential oils, but when cooking with fruit I love combining it with citrus essential oils.

Today I made two different recipes.

Strawberry Freezer Jam

Ingredients 

  • 4 cups of mashed strawberries
  • 4 drops of dōTERRA lemon oil
  • 1 ¾ cups of sugar
  • 1 package of Bernardin Freezer Jam Pectin

Instructions

  1. Mix together sugar and pectin in a bowl. Stir until well mixed.
  2. Add 4 cups of mashed strawberries and 4 drops of dōTERRA lemon oil. Stir for 3 minutes.
  3. Ladle into clean sterilized jars leaving ½ inch headspace. Apply lids. Let stand until thickened (30 minutes)
  4. Serve right away, refrigerate for up to 4 weeks or freeze for longer storage.

Makes 5 250ml sized jars.


Strawberry Lemon Banana Bread

Ingredients 

  • ½ cup of margarine; softened
  • 1 cup of granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 ripe bananas; mashed
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 5 drops of dōTERRA lemon oil (add to taste)
  • 2 cups of mashed strawberries

Instructions 

  1. Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
  2. Grease two 9×5 loaf pans with non-stick spray. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.
  4. Mix in eggs and mashed bananas.
  5. In separate bowl mix together flour, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to banana mixture until combined. Do not over mix.
  6. Beat in dōTERRA lemon oil and mashed strawberries.
  7. Pour into prepared loaf pans.
  8. Bake at 375F for 15 minutes. Drop temperature to 350F and finish baking for 40 minutes or until edges are slightly brown or toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  9. Let cool completely before taking out of load pans.
  10. Enjoy!


These recipes were delicious and the lemon oil added a really nice flavour to them!

Hope you enjoy!

-Kelsea