With strawberry season upon us, it’s fun to make the treats and desserts that only fresh strawberries can be part of, and tossing in some fresh rhubarb is also a nice addition for most people!

Strawberry Rhubard Pie
from Farmer’s Daughter

1 quart strawberries, hulled and chopped into large pieces
3-4 big stalks of rhubarb, sliced
3/4 cup sugar
3 heaping Tbsp cornstarch

dough for 2-crusted pie
1 egg
1 tsp sugar

Combine strawberries, rhubarb, sugar and cornstarch in a bowl.

Line a pie dish with one crust, then roll out the second crust and slice it into 1-inch strips. Pour the filling into the bottom crust, and lay out top crust strips in a lattice pattern. Trim and tuck in the ends, then crimp the edges. Beat the egg and brush it onto the crust, then sprinkle with sugar.

Place pie on a baking sheet to catch possible drips. Bake at 350°F for 60-70 minutes until the filling is bubbly and the crust is browned.

[image: flickr]

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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

I found this recipe for Baked Blueberry French Toast from the Boxwood Inn, in Akron, Pennysylvania.  I’m going to substitute strawberries for blueberries, though, as they are in season here and at a very good price. This is a make-ahead dish. You assemble the french toast at night and then put it in the refrigerator. In the morning, you pull it out of the fridge and pop it into the oven for baking.

Easy-peasy. My kind of special breakfast.

Baked Blueberry French Toast  
Ingredients:
Overnight Recipe:

1 loaf Italian bread

½ c. sugar

4 eggs

1 tsp cinnamon

½ c. milk

1 tsp cornstarch

¼ tsp baking powder

1 Tblsp butter, melted

1 tsp vanilla

¼ c. powdered sugar

2 1/2 cups blueberries  

Directions:

Slice the bread on the diagonal to create 8 ¾ in thick slices, heels removed. Arrange bread slices in 10×15 baking dish.

Whip eggs, milk, baking powder, & vanilla in medium bowl. Slowly pour mixture over bread, turning each slice to coat completely. Cover & refrigerate overnight.

In the morning: Preheat oven to 425. Coat another 10×15 baking dish with vegetable spray. Sprinkle blueberries over bottom of pan. Mix together sugar, cinnamon & cornstarch and pour evenly over blueberries. Tightly wedge the bread slices over the blueberries, wettest side up. Brush the bread with melted butter.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

To serve: Place the toast berry side down. Stir the remaining berry mixture in the baking dish and scoop over the toast. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
 

Recipe by permission from BnBFinder.com and Boxwood Inn

Image credit: All Posters.com

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Easy Baked Blueberry French Toast

Did you make a guess yet?

What sort of structure will it be? Let’s see…

Strawberry structures! Here’s the deal. I’ve been sort of obsessing over the Strawberry Fields Forever cover by Ben Harper; for like a week. This is odd because:

1. I usually hate covers (I like maybe five – ten cover tunes period).
2. It’s not like I hadn’t heard this song before. I heard it when it first came out a LONG time ago. In fact, I really like I Am Sam, the movie it comes from.
3. As far as Beatles tunes go, SFF rates fairly low on my list of favorites. I love the Beatles, but was never into this particular song one way or the other.

I have issues.

I figured this would make a good classic post though, so here we go; some offbeat classic strawberry structures…

To learn more about these strawberry structures, or to see even more fruity structures, visit the original Offbeat Homes post, Sweet Fruity Structures.

As an extra treat, here’s the album version of my song obsession, just in case you need to hear it. There are some live versions floating around too, but oddly, I don’t enjoy them.

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Classic Offbeat Homes: No one I think is in my tree…

There is another pineapple house. Or rather, extra large pineapple structure.

No windows though. Probably solid through and through.

If you don’t have room for a mansion like this, or the ability to breathe under water, you can always do something with your yard that reflects your tropical fruit side.  All you need is a lot of yellow flowers and some patience.

Or there’s always something like Sergey Tkachenko’s egg house — which personally, I’ve always felt resembled an apple more so than an egg.

If juicy is more your scene, then why not pick a strawberry house (get it, “pick a”) I need to stop.

Or this one…

Yummy homes, right. Who wants one?  Actually, I don’t think fruit is so much my style — unless I’m munching.

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Sweet Fruity Structures