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Roasted Rhubarb

An easy summer dessert, just stalks of colorful rhubarb cooked until just soft in the oven then served with Greek yogurt, rice pudding, ice cream or even stirred into the morning oatmeal! Simple Summer Dessert, Made from Scratch. Just Three Ingredients. Real Food, Fresh & Fast. Not just easy, Summer Easy . Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Easy DIY. Not just vegan, Vegan Done Real . Naturally Gluten Free.

Cauliflower Salad with Fresh Herbs

An easy summer salad, just steamed cauliflower tossed in a vinaigrette with fresh herbs. So simple to make but memorable to serve. No mayonnaise so perfect for picnics and outdoor gatherings. Weight Watchers Friendly & Low Carb. Vegan & Naturally Gluten-Free. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ This recipe is so quick and easy that I'm adding it to a special collection of easy summer recipes published every summer since 2009. Watch for new "summer easy" recipes all summer long! With a free e-mail subscription , you'll never miss a one! Summer Easy: The First Inspiration Truth be told, this was the first of two recipes that inspired this summer’s recipe theme, Summer Easy, a collection of easy summer recipes. (The second recipe? This Easy-Easy Grilled Mushroom Appetizer !) I made it one night, twas excellent. The next night, we ended up with an impromptu party with about 90 minutes notice. I made it again, this time without thinking, just

Easy-Easy Grilled Mushroom Appetizer

My favorite easy summer appetizer, a real crowd pleaser, just fresh mushrooms cooked in Italian dressing over a hot grill. For the cook? Totally easy, just two ingredients. For the health-conscious eater? This mushroom appetizer recipe is also low-cal and low-carb! For the taste-hungry foodie? On the grill, these mushrooms get all dark and syrupy. So good! ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ This recipe is so quick and easy that I'm adding it to a special collection of easy summer recipes published every summer since 2009. Watch for new "summer easy" recipes all summer long! With a free e-mail subscription , you'll never miss a one! BEST RECIPES! Easy-Easy Grilled Mushroom Appetizer Made the List! Best Recipes of 2009 The Essence of Summer Easy! When I first launched the new collection of easy summer recipes back in 2009, this easy appetizer recipe – just two ingredients! – was exactly what I had in mind. It's not just easy, i

Old-Fashioned Homemade Lemonade

How to make real lemonade and the most lemony lemonade you've maybe ever tasted! The trick? A simple technique that extracts extra flavor from the lemon peels. Fresh & Refreshing, a Summer Classic. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Great for Meal Prep.

Easy Summer Recipes

Less Cookin'. More Livin'. Make it your summer motto! This is a seasonal collection of the simplest of simple summer recipes, recipes so short, so intuitive, so repeatable, that we might be reluctant to even call them "recipes". Real Food, Fresh & Summery from Simple Suppers to Sides, Salads and Sandwiches with the Best Summer Produce Plus Summery Sweets and More.

Rhubarb Chutney

Everyone loves rhubarb – don't we usually cloak it in sugar for cake, cheesecake, rhubarb sauce and first and foremost, pie? This recipe shifts rhubarb to the savory side, a chutney that's fabulous with grilled steak, roast pork, even stirred into Greek yogurt for a savory dessert. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ COMPLIMENTS! ".... my god is that good stuff" ~ Kevin "The Rhubarb Is Ready, the Rhubarb Is Ready!" In my childhood, when the rhubarb was ripe, summer had truly arrived. My mom kept a few plants on the north side of the house. The cherry-red stalks were tart-tart-tart so Mom sent us to fetch some with a small dish of sugar – tasting while picking was encouraged! My dad's been trying to kill my mom's last rhubarb plants with Round-Up for years - thankfully, rhubarb is resilient and two plants survived. I've transplanted one plant into my own garden in Missouri and with the promise that rhubarb pie is the likely