Thsnks! Looks great!
Here’s a easy lemon curd recipe I use: Easy Microwave Lemon Curd Recipe | King Arthur Baking
It’s really very good- better than jarred stuff- and easier than stove top.
Hmm, interesting difference in proportions to the one I use:
Lemon: 1/4 cup juice 1 cup juice
zest one lemon zest of 0-4 lemons
Sugar: 1/2 cup 1 cup
Eggs: 4 yolks 2 whole eggs
Butter: n/a 1/2 cup
That’s really a huge difference, I’m sure the finished product tastes different and has different mechanical properties. I think I’d better stick with the ingredients that I know work. But I will try cooking in the microwave. I haven’t melted chocolate on the stove since learning to nuke chocolate, and this could well be similar.
Five desserts at the Christmas dinner I went to. And all of them made from scratch:
Three pies - key lime, chocolate chess and blueberry (with homemade pie crusts – seriously so much better than the store bought)
Fruit cake
Buttercream - meringue cake covered in chocolate. (Years ago I used to order something like this from a catalog and it was always a disappointment, tasting dry, crumbly and flavorless. This handmade version which took about 10 hours to make was absolutely delicious and super-rich.)
I made it through four out of the five desserts.
Yes, the bulk of the desserts was untouched, but so was the bulk of the other dishes. When the table’s got that much food on it, all you do is take a sampling of each. We had three main dishes (2 smoked chickens, a seafood casserole and a ham) plus all these sides.
Leftovers are one of the great things about holiday meals. I was sent home with two filled plates. One of the “main” meal and one just of desserts. 
But I will say that holiday dinners growing up my mother never even did dessert. But she didn’t put much work into the meal anyway. Almost all of it came out of a package or can. (Pepperidge Farm stuffing, frozen corn niblets in sauce, powdered gravy from an envelope, bread from a can, cranberries from a can when we even had cranberries. Only thing made from scratch was the mashed potatoes and a turkey or ham that only had to be popped in the oven for a few hours.) But it was still the best meal of the year. Mashed potatoes with gravy. Stuffing. A meal with more than one side. That was only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. When I got a little older, feeling our holiday dinners were lacking, I would make dessert – two pies with a store-bought crust.