Usually when I make key lime pie I use regular limes because I rarely time it right for key limes to be in season. But when I saw a bag of key limes on sale at the grocery store, I decided that I would, at long last, make this pie the right way.
“Long last” is accurate because it’s the last time I will use actual key limes. They are slightly larger than the size of a quarter. Do you know how insanely tedious it is to extract zest and especially juice from something that miniscule?
I started off trying to smash the limes against the top of the juicer and rock them back and forth with my hand, but that wasn’t getting me far. Then I settled on pinching each side with both thumbs and forefingers and twisting. It was the type of thing where I would have quit but I had gotten myself too far into the project and I was under a time crunch.
Key limes have a slightly “brighter” flavor than regular limes but it’s not a big enough difference for me to ever use them again.
By the way, this is the absolutely best key lime pie recipe known to mankind. It’s a frozen version by Ina Garten. And she even admits that she uses regular limes too. Ha!
6 comments:
I bought some key limes on sale recently and faced the same dilemma, but found the perfect solution by juicing them in my garlic press. Worked like a charm! I agree, though, that the difference in taste wouldn't merit the effort.
Garlic presses are the key to a key lime pie. This is Kc's favorite pie, so I get to make it at least once a year for his birthday. I cut a key lime in 1/4 and put the pieces in a garlic press. It takes a bit of time, but it really works well.
A garlic press is brilliant. But how do you keep the lime juice from tasting garlicky? Ew. Maybe if I try it again I'll have to really, really deep clean my garlic press, but I'm still skeptical that I can rid it of all garlic odors. Hmmm ... Thanks to both of you for the tip, though. :)
It was so good, it was worth you getting arthritis.
I don't know. I have a Pampered Chef press and it has this cool little plastic thingy that cleans out all the holes of the press. But my juice has never tasted garlicky to my knowledge.
I have the perfect solution. You buy two garlic presses - one for garlic and the other for key limes :)
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