This gluten free strawberry rhubarb cake is a whole mess of goodness, and it may look like an actual mess but it’s so worth making this spring/summer/whenever you happen to have fresh or frozen strawberries and rhubarb around. It’s made with a lightly sweet gluten free browned butter vanilla cake, layered with heaps of pillowy soft ricotta + whipped cream, and piles of roasted strawberries and rhubarb. It’s happiness in a bowl (or plate, though it’s a bit of a challenge with this one) and despite it’s aesthetic, it’s a brilliant and easy cake to make for guests or your favorite people (including yourself!). If you aren’t a fan of…
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Giant Costco Copycat Gluten Free Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins
Strawberry rhubarb is one of those classic combos that reminds me of summer potlucks, with bowls of pasta salad and cornbread and hot dogs and hamburgers and flimsy paper plates and plastic cups. Hot, southern Oregon summers (for those of you not from the Pacific Northwest, southern Oregon is not the same as Portland/Seattle – those two cities perpetually washed in grey and rain – it’s actually darn hot, sunny, and dry from May-September). So here I am, wishing for a hot southern Oregon summer, making these MASSIVE gluten free strawberry rhubarb muffins because that’s as close as we’re gonna get for now. And for those of you new to…
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Gluten Free Roasted Strawberry Rhubarb Tart
Strawberry rhubarb is one of those perfect pairs. Sultry summer evenings with slices of strawberry rhubarb pie, thick sweet juices dripping out of latticed crusts, or strawberry rhubarb crumbles and slab pies laid out on potluck tables just waiting for seconds and thirds on flower-lined paper plates. It just feels quintessentially summer. Which, perhaps, makes this dessert a bit pre-mature, maybe just hopeful that summer might grace us a little sooner than expected this year after the year we’ve all had so far. There will always be struggles we have to work through but we are facing the final battle of so many life-or-death issues like police brutality and the…
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Gluten Free Quinoa Almond Flax Waffles with Pistachio Cream and Strawberry Rhubarb Rose Compote
Ever have one of those weekend mornings when you wake up and think, I’m not just going to eat that little container or leftovers or a mug of tea for breakfast? No, this morning, none of those grab-and-go week-morning breakfasts will cut it. You need a proper prepared, leveled-up, arrives on a silver platter breakfasts and gosh darn it you’re going to make it yourself because going out for a brunch that costs 10X what the ingredients worth is not going to agree with your bank account (and, in my case, it’s hella smoky and COVID is still a thing so staying home has its perks). This breakfast is for…
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Gluten Free Strawberry Rhubarb Cupcakes
There’s a photo that I love, taken in my Grandma Charlotte and Grandpa John’s front yard up in Lake Oswego near Portland, Oregon. It’s of four- or five-year-old me, wearing a short-sleeve yellow patterned dress, hair cut short into a strawberry blond bob, little arms lifted and little hands propping up two massive rhubarb stalks, complete with plate-sized floppy leaves. I’m making a face, of course, thrilled to be showing off my crazy elephant ears plucked straight from the garden – tongue out, eyes crossed, probably just about to burst into a fit of giggles. I’m not sure who took the photo but it’s a gem. It was either right…
