Oh Meyer!

Today's cooking experiment - lemon meringue pie made with Meyer lemons. Research online has produced conflicting accounts of what to expect. Some like the slightly less bitter and abrupt taste of the Meyer lemons, stating the Meyer lemons blend unobtrusively with the other ingredients to form a pleasing, coherent pie. Others prefer the bright taste of regular lemons, finding the flavor of the Meyer lemons uninspired in this particular dish. The pie is cooling on a wire rack but we won't be eating it until tonight. We're heading over to the McMillers for dinner. The last e-mail correspondence advised lamb shish kebabs and hummus were on the menu. Darr's been trying to convince me to try hummus for years but my food fear is great so tonight will be an exciting culinary adventure for me. It's been awhile since I partook of a new food and I'm looking forward to it. Here's a list of some of the foods I have tried since meeting Darren:

emu (red meat, who knew?)
oysters (accidentally ordered thinking they were clams)
mussels (best mussels to date were in Paris and had a cheesy sauce - yum, yum, and yum)
spaghetti squash (weird)
soda bread (homemade and very tasty)
sushi (including eel at my friend's bachelorette weekend in Vegas)
caviar (click here for proof)
capers (but these were used as an ingredient so I'm not sure this counts)
stinky cheeses (including the kind with visible mold)
rabbit (in a pasta dish at Tuscany Grill - very good)
eggs Benedict (regular, salmon, and crab varieties)
chocolate croissants
sweet and savory crêpes
falafel (made at home and eaten sans sauce)

UPDATE: Hummus is TASTY! I can't believe Darr let me go this long without trying it. The lamb shish kebabs were yummy. The spinach spankoptiatasisasas (sp) were wonderful. It was all so good. Thank you for having us. Oh, and, uh, Henry sends his apologies for puking.