It's Rhubarb Season! Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble Dessert

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I've got rhubarb spilling over and invading every inch of my raised garden beds this year, plus huge, plump, shiny red strawberries are arriving too! So I'm making some tried and true recipes, of which this recipe posted long ago is always at the top. If you love the tart flavor of rhubarb (sweetened nicely of course!) than you'll cherish this recipe that my mother found in a local hospital charity cookbook from the Midwest. It's a recipe that all my family relatives come to expect at family get-togethers and disappears within minutes of serving, especially when it is straight out of the oven and still warm!

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Rhubarb produces incredibly huge leaves that hide the luscious red stems underneath.

Here's a peak of what's growing under those enormous leaves (that you cut off and discard).

Have a basket ready to carry your harvest to the kitchen!

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Italian Asparagus and Potato Gratin in Six Cheese Sauce

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Easter and Spring! Such a wonderful holiday and season that together herald delicious traditional foods including buttery asparagus, tender new potatoes, garden-fresh spinach, eggs, succulant ham and more! For our very small Easter dinner (just my husband and me this year), we baked a brown sugar crusted ham, a cheesy asparagus and potato gratin and prepared a sweet and savory spinach salad..
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Since the weather has been so incredibly warm for this time of year, we spent most of our day outside in the gardens after going to church early in the morning. We decided to keep our menu simple because all of our kids and their families stayed in their home cities this year. We've got a very busy family with their own careers, children, and even more babies on the way, so we just kept the stress level lower by not traveling to one or the other this year.
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So in light of that train of thought on simplicity, I'll get straight to one of my recipes that I prepared for Easter, starting with the Asparagus and Potato Gratin in Six Cheese Sauce. This is a dish that I came up with on my own, using my favorite cheeses that bubble and create a golden brown top with beautiful green asparagus peeking through while the potatoes float underneath. This dish is a lovely spring dish in presentation as well. Mmmm, so good too!.

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