Strawberry Rhubarb Pie, Rhubarb Pie and Other Non-Rhubarb Things

For not liking Rhubarb all that much, I sure make a lot of Rhubarb desserts!  Since we have had a lot of company as of late,  I have made several pies and cakes this summer.  One of my personal favorites (and maybe it's because of the strawberries and not the rhubarb) is Strawberry Rhubarb Pie.  I had a bit of help with this one too.

Surprisingly, Amelia loves anything rhubarb.

I take a few different recipes and combine them to create my own favorite:

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Pastry for one pie crust (I make 3 at a time so one is usually handy in the freezer) You can find my recipe here.

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups diced rhubarb

2 cups strawberries, hulled

Line 9" pie dish with pastry.  Mix sugar, flour and salt.  Sprinkle a bit on top of the pastry in the dish.  Combine rhubarb and strawberries.  Add sugar mixture.  

Crumb topping:

1/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup brown sugar 

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

In a small bowl combine ingredients for crumb topping and cut with a pastry cutter until the mixture resembles fine crumbs.  Sprinkle (or dump if your name is Amelia) the topping over the surface of the pie.  Bake at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes then lower to 350 for additional 30-40 more minutes.

I also realized I have not shared my standard go to recipe for Rhubarb Pie.  I do mix a few recipes for this one too.

Rhubarb Pie

(eek no pic)

Pasty for 1 pie

2 cups Rhubarb

1 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 tablespoon butter

1/4 cup raisins (only because Rob wants them in there)

1 egg

4 crushed saltines

Sprinkle of nutmeg

Mix rhubarb, sugar, vanilla, butter and raisins well.

Add egg and crushed saltines. 

Sprinkle with nutmeg.

Add crumb topping from above recipe (this is key in my point of view :)

Bake in 400 degree oven for 10-15 minutes then lower to 350 for 30-40 additional minutes.

I would HIGHLY recommend Every Which Way with Rhubarb by Amanda Brannon.  My neighbor Renee suggested it and I had it on my Amazon wish list FOREVER until my mother-in-law bought it for me for Christmas last year.  Will be trying bunches of recipes from this book and will share when I do!

Speaking of Strawberries:

Although our strawberries for the pie above came from the store...we ate our first strawberry from our strawberry patch on an early morning when we didn't brush our hair :)  

Cut a few flowers for a centerpiece too:

She wants to cut everything.

And it was warm enough last week to break out the pool!  And make a salad??!

We also played some mean soccer on another let's not brush my hair day:

and had lots of busy time at her new desk...love the toes.

I forgot to share Andrea's bed when she arrived here.  Amelia picked out 3 stuffies for each of our guests...Andrea's looked like this: 

Lastly, our neighbor Renee brought over a bag full of goodies to fuel my recent chalkboard obsession :)  We took a pic to include on a postcard thank you for her and we used it for a few other thank you's we needed to get out. 

Amelia insisted on the unicorn.   Thanks again Renee!