A tale of Woe and the Best Lemon Bars ever (don't worry, there is a happy ending)

The absolute best lemon bars in the world, in fact, the best bars in the world, even surpassing my mother's buttermilk brownies are the lemon bars made by Methodists food services.  When I had Thor, the night I had him there was one on my tray. Before I could finish it they took it away and for years I sought to find one as good.  Never did and I became convinced that it wasn't really as good as I thought but had become magnified by time and the fact that I hadn't eaten it in 2 days when they brought it to me.  Well, when I had the little boys I ordered one and was shocked to discover that they were better than I remembered.  I ordered several at every meal and saved them and took them home.  They were that good.  But alas, they are long gone and Dave says that I can't have another baby just to get more lemon bars.  They were that good.  Have another baby good.

In recent weeks, knowing that having another baby was off the table I began contemplating what other things I could do to stay at the hospital so that I could get these Lemon Bars again.  They are not in the cafeteria.  That I have tried.  No, they are food service delivery only.

I tried calling the hospital for the recipe (yeah, try that sometime.  that will really trip them up) I visited the cafeteria.  I talked to other people who were pregnant about delivering at Methodist and scoring me some Lemon Bars only to come back crumb free each time.

They have a wonderful shortbread bottom and a brown baked top (not powdered sugary) and they are Lemony and tart.  They are a little piece of citrus heaven and worth every Weight Watcher point.

And then today, glorious today, like manna from heaven a friend who works in a different building but is part of the Methodist family found out, THEY COME FROM A MIX!!!  She is getting me an industrial size box.  Dave is off the hook, no more Lemon Bar babies.  I figure from the box I can figure out either what they are and make my own from scratch (reverse Sandra Lee it) or find a similar mix on the market, or find them on the web.

I am in Lemon Bar heaven.

Stay tuned for the arrival of the mix and if I can scale down the recipe for a normal pan size.

Huzzah!!