Well it’s that time of the springtime when my rhubarb plant is taller than my good friend’s 5 year old daughter (whoops, almost 5 year old 😊) – we took a look last weekend when they visited! That means it’s time to start thinking of creative ways to use rhubarb again. Derek remembered his Grandma…
It’s been a while since I last posted a recipe. In fact, this has been the longest break between recipes since we started Gravel & Dine back in 2014. And it’s not for lack of having recipes to share – I have so many fun recipes to share that I’ve been working on. One of…
Last summer, I was telling a friend that I work with how big my rhubarb plant was and offered to bring her some rhubarb. I think she underestimated the size of my plant and I underestimated the amount of rhubarb I was picking for her because it didn’t seem to be making a dent! Needless…
There are a couple of drive-in movie theatres left in Minnesota. One summer a couple years ago, Tory, AJ, Derek & I loaded up our trucks and headed to the drive-in. Now the movies don’t start until dark which at high sun can be at 10 PM but they open the gates at 7 PM. …
It’s only the third week of May and my rhubarb plant is already a few feet tall (when you count the leaves) and I can pull off thick two foot tall stalks of rhubarb. How is this even possible with the weird, cold spring we’ve had this year? But when the plant is producing that…
A few Saturday’s ago, I woke up earlier than the hubby. I snuck upstairs quietly, fed the pets, and sat down to catch up on some recorded food network shows. I watched Damaris Philips put bacon the oven and I thought, hmmm I have bacon in the fridge. A few minutes later, I remembered my…