I love the "Bounty of the Land" and I get this from doing a little gardening. I do not enjoy doing a lot of gardening. My lovely farmhouse yard is feeling more and more like my oasis as I look around at the spring plants growing. Every year I have added things that I love that will grow on there own with very little tending to. I have added easy perennials this year (peonies, mini iris and regular iris, tulips, daffodils, bleeding hearts and clematis around the seedums) and I already see my rhubarb coming on. Pumpkins grow on their own in the field beside our house where the cows graze. This fall I promise myself I am going to start the long process of getting wild asparagus to grow in behind the garage in between the crab-apple tree and rhubarb. We will again plant tomatoes in our 4 foot garden which I will weed occasionally. This alone provides salsa and delicious pies all winter. Plus the squash, cucumber, peppers, carrots and potatoes I get each year from my parents and my husband's parents. I always feel so blessed to know how to provide for ourselves and also share with our community our "bounty". Too bad I am not brave enough to eat dandelion leaves or experiment with the mushrooms that come up in our yard each year.
Rhubarb Cream Pie
1 pie crust
fill with chopped rhubarb
in a bowl:
1 1/2 cup of sugar
3 tbsp of flour
1/2 tsp of nutmeg
1 tbsp of butter
2 eggs
Beat together and pour into shell over rhubarb.
Bake at 400 for 15 mins, then turn down to 350 til done. i forget how long.
No comments:
Post a Comment