Dreaming Lemons

Last week, one of the recipes was for some really wonderful toasted almond lemon bars. I have recently bought a few new baking books, and last week's recipes were from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book; both were very good, and I am looking forward to making more and sharing my results. (This week's recipes are coming from Alice Medrich's Pure Dessert, which conceptually has me totally jazzed.) While many people liked the brownie recipe (which was adapted from Julia Child, so come on...) the lemon bars were a big hit - they had toasted almonds in the crust and then a very tart lemon filling, so the complementary flavors of lemon and almond came through nicely. I usually don't like lemon bars because they are too much, the filling has a gummy texture, etc., but these had a focused intensity that really worked.

Anyway, on Monday night I had a dream in which I was composing poetry. I guess the lemon bars had an impact on me, because here is the poem that I composed in the dream:

Mouth filling with lemon-
Where did the thoughts go?
Thwack!