Lemon Thyme Bars

However, reading a real book, fictional or non is completely different. On our to Palm Springs I was so elated to buy a book that sounded amazing. I was listening to AM Talk and they were talking about the story of Jessica Buchanan and played an audio clip of the book. The suspense hooked me and I quickly downloaded it on Joe’s kindle. I was determined to begin reading a book for enjoyment and to get the other side of my brain fired up again. But I noticed that as I brgan reading, I wasn’t savoring each sentence. I was quickly reading through the pages and thinking, “where’s the main event?” I needed to take a breath and stop and understand that reading a  book builds your suspence, it’s not supposed to be rushed or skimmed. So I went back and re-read the skimmed pages. So far I am half ay through and already have another set up books ready to go.

So the question of the day is: Do you like to read? Have you gone through a “text-book to novel transition”?

And speaking of savoring and enjoying, that is exactly what I did with these fruit bars (See, nice transition, huh?) I have a thing for fruit bars, such as these passion fruit bars and kumquat-cardamom bars. If there is some sort of fruit juice involved, I seem to make it into a bar.

I’ve made simple lemon bars before and it is the usual go-to desert in this house because it is so easy, packs wonderfully and everyone loves them. But sometimes I get a wild hair and and add lavender. But this time I wanted something that mimicked the lemon, something bright and earthy. It was a toss-up between fresh thyme and rosemary. I love them both, but thyme won.

These are not as sweet as you would think with lemon bars. They are tart and the thyme mellows out the sweetness a little more but still leaves the herb delicate in the background like “hmm..what is that earthly aroma.”