I started a new food / recipe blog…  This time hopefully a little bit healthier than the cookies

Our First CSA

No worries…. the holidays will be here before you know it & I have many new cookie recipes ready to go!

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So my first recipe isn’t from our goodies from the CSA.. It is from my own veggie garden.

Here is my Rhubarb plant. This is a cutting form my husband’s grandmothers’ plant.. I forget how far it goes back, I need to find that out.

My mother-in-law gave me this recipe last year and it is simple, made with ingredients that I always have on hand and is perfect for a summer afternoon.

Rhubarb Crunch

1 cup flour
3/4 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup butter; melted
brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
4 cups chopped rhubarb
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 Tbsp cornstarch

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9 in pan with cooking spray.
Mix first 5 ingredients ( flour-cinnamon)  together until crumbly. Pour half of mixture into prepared baking dish & gently press to make a crust.

Cover the crust with the rhubarb.

 In a cold saucepan, mix water, sugar & cornstarch; whisk until cornstarch is dissolved. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat until thickened.

Pour over rhubarb then crumble remaining topping on top.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

YUM!

This would be perfect with a little bit of vanilla ice cream 😉

Enjoy!

xoxo

Here they are!!!

 Plato & Einstein!!

Chickens!!

and Ali!!! ( making avery strange face, I might add)

That cabbage right there .. the third one in.. that’s next weeks’ cole slaw 😉

Plato & Einstein back to back..

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This is all so exciting!!!  I love food!!   Here is what we received this week !!

We picked peas this week 😉

Scott & I picked 2 pounds!!  They were delicious. I made a proccuito-wrapped pork tenderloin on Saturday night & sauteed the snow peas very lightly in butter , salt & pepper. That was it… they didn’t need anything else. Just delicious.

Here is everything from week 2!!

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A friend of mine is also trying to learn to make the paper-pieced hexagons.  I have tried explaining it to her & decided that a short visual explanation might make more sense, since I really don;t know all of the proper terms & I have just started this myself.

From the research that I’ve done, there are many ways to do this; this is what I have found to work for me. If this doesn’t work for you, by all means try something different 😉

I purchased my paper hexagons  I’m using 1 inch hexagons.  Why? Just because 😉

I started by rough cutting my pre-washed & pressed fabric a seam- allowance bigger than my paper piece. It doesn’t have to be perfect,  the straight-edge of the paper will create a nice, even line.

Next I place the paper piece on the wrong side of the fabric & use a straight pin to hold in place

 Then I  fold two pieces of the fabric over one corner, sort of like wrapping a present

I then use my thread ( I’m using white hand quilting thread) to pick up both pieces of the fabric in the corner, without going  through the paper

I stitched twice over the same area, giving the thread a brief tug to make sure that it was secure.

Next I move to the next corner, same thing.. I just make sure that my thread is taught, but not pulling.

Again, 2 stitches through both pieces of fabric

When all corners are stitched, I do a final stay stitch then cut the thread.

Make another (or 50, they ARE addicting!!) hexagons.

To attach them together, place right sides together & with co-ordinating fabric whip stitch the edges together.

Continue whipstitching the edges together in desired pattern..

Here is a view of the back…

I have not finished this flower yet, but when I do, I will update the blog ( I promise, it won’t be long)

When flower is complete, then paper pieces can be removed & reused. I think that I will only remove the inner-most pieces so that I have ‘body’ to work with when I get to the point of actually assembling all of my flowers to be into my quilt.

I hope that I haven’t confused you too much.. I welcome feedback from anyone who has suggestions on how I could improve these…

xoxoxo

michelle