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Aco-worker brought me 20 meyer lemons from his tree and I have been having fun turning them into different delicious things. Today was a simple lemon curd. I spooned it onto small shortbread cookies and topped it with lemon thyme leaves = lots of yum!

**Most recipes ask you to just put all the ingredients into a saucepan and whisk away as it heats up. While this is a quicker/simpler method, doing it the way I'm suggesting ensures that there are fewer bits of cooked egg in the finished curd, which I prefer. But if you don't mind the egg bits, you can skip ahead to Step 7.**

Homemade lemon curd is truly a magical thing. Bright lemon flavor, with just enough sweetness--it's absolute heaven spread on a fresh scone or a piece of toast. Or by the spoonfull. This simple recipe for lemon curd is a magical way to use up some of the lemons that are in season right now.

You can buy lemon curd in stores, but it's kind of hard to find, and it's usually kind of expensive, and it's never as awesome as the homemade kind. If you like lemon anything, do yourself a favor and try this recipe.

Start by zesting those beautiful lemons with a fine grater. You'll want a microplane style zester rather than one that peels off large pieces of zest, because you don't want large chunks of peel in your lovely, smooth lemon curd.

I used lemons from my tree, and I know they're organic, because I know I haven't sprayed them with anything (mostly because we're lazy landscapers). But if you're buying lemons, I'd look for organic, since you'll be using the skin of the fruit.

Whisk together the egg yolks and sugar, and combine until the mixture is smooth and a light yellow color, like this. If it doesn't look smooth and creamy like this picture, and instead looks lumpy, like you're making a yellow sandcastle, you probably don't have enough egg yolk (eggs too small, perhaps--that's what happened to me). No worries, just add one extra egg yolk, and you'll get this lovely texture.

If you have a double boiler, it's time to pull it out. I don't use a double boiler often enough to justify storing one in our kitchen, so I just use a regular pot with a few inches of simmering water in the bottom, and a bowl large enough to sit on top of the pot. You don't want the hot water to touch the bottom of the bowl, so just use a small amount of water, and make sure the bottom of the bowl sits high enough.

Whisk the lemon mixture in the top bowl as it gently cooks until the lemon curd thickens. This takes 8-10 minutes. You should keep whisking the entire time, but trust me, it's worth the time spent standing at the stove!

Remove from the heat after the mixture has thickened, and mix in one pat of butter at a time, whisking until melted and incorporated before adding the next bit of butter. Continue until all the butter has been incorporated.

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After it has a chance to cool for a few minutes, transfer the curd to a medium-sized bowl and press plastic wrap directly against the surface to prevent a skin from forming. Place in the refrigerator to chill.

You can freeze the curd in an airtight container or, to save space, use a resealable freezer bag, pressing out as much air as possible while sealing. I try to use up freezer items within 6 months to avoid that unpleasant freezer taste, but you can realistically store it for up to one year. Thaw in the refrigerator.

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I'm once again worried about these yellow balls - they're a bit hard to touch, but squidgy and semi-solid in the middle (it's not sweetcorn - the balls are bigger, plus I haven't eaten any in the past week to rule this out anyhow). They appear more so when my stools are harder but can also appear in soft stools.

It could be something you are eating which is causing your stools to move through you too fast? Try eliminating dairy and try the vegan diet again to see if your symptoms go away. Try a food diary. Have you had any tests down?

You need to try Low Fodmap for a month to find out if it is working. Two weeks is not enough. Your symptoms are normal for IBS, especially the yellow stools. Food moving through you too fast is an IBS symptom and this can cause yellow stools. Your doctor is right and is not dismissing you.Accept your doctor's advice that your IBS is flaring up. Stool colour change is a common feature of IBS. You are not being offered a stool test because your doctor likely believes nothing will show up. When you have IBS, all tests will be negative. When you have IBS symptoms you don't understand, it is common to believe you have something else. If your doctor thought you had something else, he would have offered you tests. The fact that he hasn't is good news for you and is a sign your doctor is confident that your IBS is the culprit.

My best advice is to relax as much as possible, distract yourself with things you enjoy and try light exercise to take your mind off your stomach. I wouldn't keep trying to chase up test after test; this will keep your IBS in flare up mode. Diagnosis acceptance and trusting your doctor really helps to control your symptoms. Remember, your doctor is the expert!My IBS is in remission because, I accept my diagnosis trust my doctor, and I try to keep as stress free as possible.

Persevere with the Low Fodmap Diet for a month with the help of a dietician and also try a food diary. Sometimes you have to keep changing your diet to keep up with your IBS symptoms. It is all trial and error. Keep trying different approaches to your IBS. When one solution stops working, don't worry; simply try something else.

I created my account just to reply to you in hopes to save some ones life. My mother was 36 when her doctor told her she had IBS. He refused to do any tests on her because according to him she was too young to have anything serious. He told her for two years it was IBS as the cancer grew inside of her. After those two years my father rushed her to the ER and the doctor in the ER said, "If you didn't bring her in tonight she would have not survived. " she lost so much blood internally that she needed multiple bags. It turned out she had a giant tumor in her colon the size of the doctors 2 fists put together that had been growing for over 10 years. She was in stage three colon cancer. A lot of people dismiss others, especially doctors, by saying it's IBS when they can do simple tests like colonoscopies to find out if it's something more serious. And I wanted to share this so the person above, or anyone else reading this, is not discouraged and have others downplay their symptoms. People know their bodies best. I think everyone needs to listen to their instincts and if they're not getting the care they want from the doctors there with currently, get a second, or even third opinion.

no this is not ibs. irritable bowel syndrome normally appears with sever constipation or diarrhea for an extended period of time normally involving blood and can come with pain to the abdominal area it should not cause yellow blobs. dont wry its not worms or cancer because normally cancer has bleeding inside the colons which can cause oily black tar like stools so it's most likely you swallowing mucus and that getting digested and being put in your poop it can also have a fiberous form so rather than telling the doctor about the blobs themselves tell him other symptoms and the form of the stool to get a more direct answer

I was bleeding on and off and had diarrhea for over 2 years. finally switched doctors. after 4 months of straight liquid bloody stools 3 different stool samples and the dr arguing with me about all the pictures I'm showing her look like food and I need to make sure that I'm not making it up I need to stop eating so fast or straining too much. I finally got in for all to go see a GI doctor and found out that I had over 50 colon polyps that were pre-cancerous along with a hiatal hernia. now I have to see an oncologist and a genealogy counselor. im 32

i literally cried reading your response. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I might not have colon cancer like your mom, but I definitely have something else going on with my digestive system or rectum or colon - or anything else in that area lol - besides IBS. I've had it for over 10 years & I've NEVER had one of these blobs in my stool until a couple weeks ago & now they are in every single bowel movement I pass. I also have had severe anal itching for 2 months now because of how much more I am pooping, & a few months ago I had a nice amount of blood in it for a week straight, but then it just stopped. & now I am experiencing these new things. so yeah, definitely not an IBS flare up! I've experienced those for 10 years & this is NOT that. also, i talked to my mom & she actually had those weird blobs in her stool for a few weeks until she just told her doctor she wanted to test her poo because of her symptoms & they listened, did the tests & discovered she had some kind of bacterial infection that was causing the blobs. she took antibiotics & they went away. but everyone's body is different & therefore, their bodies may be showing the same symptoms but with a different issue going on. like doctors sometimes say "it could be multiple things causing these symptoms" ! so thank you again for sharing your story! I knew I wasn't crazy for thinking that something is wrong.

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