Spiced Rhubarb Soup and a Lovely Blueberry Coffee Cake

This is my very first attempt at a chilled fruit soup and it was just lovely.


Spiced Rhubarb Soup
Ingred;
4c. Rhubarb, diced
3/4c. sugar
4 cinnamon sticks
1t. whole cloves
1/4t. salt
3-1/2T. cornstarch
1 lemon slice
vanilla yogurt

Bring 3-1/4c. water, rhubarb, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt to a boil. Simmer for about 20 min. Strain off pulp and return liquid to pot, bring to a boil, mix corn starch and 1/4c. water and whisk in. Cook until thickened, place lemon slice in bowl and pour hot soup over it. Cover and chill 3 hours. Garnish with yogurt.

This is my entry for Kahakai Kitchen's
This was delicious, we really enjoyed it. Mr. K my little experimenter wants me to try making rhubarb jello, he is becoming a big rhubarb fan apparently :)

Also here's picture of the Blueberry Poppyseed Coffee Cake the recipe for this is on my Muffin post.

Rhubarb Rhubarb Rhubarb!

I am finally getting around to posting my Gramma's Rhubarb cake recipe, I have been in a bit of a bloggy bog lately. Anyhow here it it-

Grandma's Rhubarb Cake

Ingred;
2c. diced rhubarb
1/2c. sugar
1/2c. shortening
1-1/2c. sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
2c. flour
1t. soda
1t. cinnamon
dash of salt
1c. buttermilk
1t. vanilla

Oven 350
Mix together the rhubarb and half c. sugar and set aside. Cream together the shortening and remaining sugar, add in the eggs and mix well. Sift together the remaining dry ingred, and stir together the last 2 ingred. Alternately add in the wet and dry ingred. to your batter. When well mixed, stir in the rhubarb. Pour into greased 9x13 pan. Bake for about 40 min. Serve with whip cream or ice cream .
Unless you are having it for breakfast ;)

(Hubby just informed me that whip cream and ice cream, are imperative for rhubarb cake AT ALL TIMES! Sadly he is not a Fan of Rhubarb)

Now while I was surfing the web, checking for more rhubarb recipes to use with my bumper crop I found this site here Rhubarb Recipes.
It has ALL kinds of Rhubarb recipes, very fun.

Rhubarb Rules!

Rhubarb pie is my favorite pie. I like to freeze batches of rhubarb so that I can make it all year round. The recipe for that and for my pie crust come from my Grandma,

Grandma makes the best pies, of course.

Ok. lets get started here is my wonderful Rhubarb

And here it is all ready for pie


This wonderful pie is going to my Father-In-Law for Father's Day, Rhubarb Pie is his favorite also. Of course I made 2 so that I could sample it, we have to make sure it's edible right ;)