🌿 Sunday on Great Island

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Hey friends❣️

Happy Sunday!

Have you got your spring holiday menus all planned out yet?

I like to start the wheels turning about a week ahead ~ enough time to plan, but still room to be spontaneous. If I spot beautiful berries, I might make a chantilly cake or triple berry muffins. And if I’m lucky enough to find rhubarb, it’s absolutely going into a rhubarb tart.

Spotting the first rhubarb of the season is probably the most dramatic moment of my cooking year. It gets my heart racing in the produce aisle. There’s something a little magical about this veggie-turned-fruit ~ it bakes up with an almost otherworldly flavor, no wonder we obsess over it.

And if you've never tried rhubarb? This is your moment!

Classic Rhubarb Recipes

It's such a beautiful ingredient I can't let this sit with one photo but don't worry, you'll find all these recipes and lots more in my collection. From rhubarb butter to rhubarb breakfast cake, work your way through them all, I promise you it's worth it.

Sweet Brunch Recipes

Spring brunch recipes from coffee cakes and scones to bundts, sweet breads, and pound cake to tempt the adults and lure the kids away from their jelly beans and marshmallow Peeps.

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I love to make delicious food, photograph it, and write about it, but mostly, I just love to EAT. Isn’t that what it’s all about? My recipes are bold and vibrant, but totally approachable ~ and my philosophy? We should all have the tools to feed ourselves well, and the confidence to cut loose a little in the kitchen. Food should be fun.

~ see you in the kitchen!

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