I've had plenty of culinary delights to blog about this last week, but honestly, I've been floating on a wave of rhubarb deliciousness, too blissed out and full to do any significant writing. Rhubarb muffins, rhubarb crumble, rhubarb cake, and even a recipe for rhubarb bread for the bread machine. It's the first garden fruit (or is it a veggie?) to harvest from my garden each spring, and it's juicy tartness is a tangy reminder of the gardening season ahead.
This week I also put in the first half of my garden, a hodge-podge of veggies I've collected from local sales and fundraisers. Tomatoes from the adapted sports team at school. Broccoli and cauliflower from the Kiwanis of Red Wing, and much more from the East Side Co-op plant sale. In addition, on Mother's Day, my guys gave me a lovely self-pollinating plum tree and a red grape vine to add to our urban backyard gardening experiment. I'm also eagerly awaiting an explosion of raspberries that are starting to bloom along the shed, hopefully soon enough to throw together a rhubarb-raspberry pie!
Much of my summer inspiration for recipes will come from the little seedlings I've planted this week. Oh, I have plenty of recipes from the cook book to keep me busy until then, as well as the daily adventures we live, so keep checking back for more:)
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