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Come fall, I make crostatas regularly. They're beautiful, terribly good to eat, and generally make folks quite happy. A free-form fruit pie (often made with homemade jam in Italy), they're easier to make than traditional American pie and are show-stoppers when you have friends to dinner. I've blogged the crostatas before, and have taught them several times for the Italian classes I've done at home. But I didn't think of them in terms of citrus until our Power Foods list came up this week. While citrus (lemon particularly) is a huge part of my cooking, I think about it less in terms of baking.
For instance: I rarely make a green salad without squeezing a lemon over it. Either I have lemon and oil, lemon alone, or lemon before a vinaigrette. Whatever choice I make, lemon, as an acid, is always followed by salt and pepper on my salads because salt dissolves best in acid. For that reason, if I'm making a vinaigrette, I always put the salt in the acid -- whether citrus or vinegar-- before adding the oil.
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