what I love :: rhubarb + strawberries
Yummy rhubarb from our local CSA.
+ Strawberries from yesterday's pick-your-own adventure.
= the perfect 6am pre-breakfast muffin snack (vintage strawberry tablecloth makes them taste even better).
Strawberry - Rhubarb Muffins
1.5 cups unbleached flour
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 tsp salt
1.5 tsp baking soda
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 stick melted butter
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp grated orange rind (optional, but oh-so-good)
1 cup chopped rhubarb
1 cup sliced strawberries
Mix dry in a large bowl. Mix wet separately. Add wet to dry. Stir in berries and rhubarb. Spoon into greased muffin pan. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Devour.
Oh yum yum I'll have to make some! Thanks for posting the recipe!
Posted by: Jessica | June 28, 2007 at 07:05 AM
OH MY! I was seriously looking for a recipe for that very thing last night...couldn't decide between pie and muffins, but since we are going camping, muffins make more sense. thank you my friend!!
Posted by: brandie | June 28, 2007 at 07:29 AM
Did you pick at broadturn? We were thinking of checking it out. They look lovely (as do the muffins).
Posted by: annette | June 28, 2007 at 07:42 AM
i love this picture. i love how in so many of your pictures of the three together, adelaide is just smiling and watching her big brothers. it's like she's storing it all up, learning how to be, how to turn all this into her own adelaide-ness. i just love that little turn of her head in the picture. man, your babes are beautiful!
Posted by: colleen | June 28, 2007 at 07:48 AM
Man, why don't they put strawberries in that aqua coloured container around here? It's probably the only way to make people want strawberries even more that they already do - nestle them in the gorgeous colour. We just get grayish green!
And I have to say you just laid a big guilt trip on me - I was sitting here feeling sorry for myself for being at work so eaaaarrrrly (8:30, got up at 8:00) when you were up with three littles making muffins at 6am.
I am officially shamed!
Posted by: Beth | June 28, 2007 at 07:56 AM
"Pre"-breakfast muffin "snack"? You have pre-breakfast? Oh wow. I want to be a kid again. Mummy?
Haha.
Sounds delicious!
Posted by: Gloria | June 28, 2007 at 08:08 AM
totally. rhubarb and strawberries are definitely little things to love. i too made a strawberry muffin recipe this year - but not with rhubarb. rhubarb in muffins sounds incredibly good. i'll have to save his recipe for 2008! and what a happy group of early risers you have - sweet!
Posted by: kristin | June 28, 2007 at 08:14 AM
Gloria - Oh, I have lots of names for all our mini meals to make myself feel better about the fact that we are eating (and I am cooking). all. day. long. !!
Posted by: amanda | June 28, 2007 at 08:23 AM
yummy!
Posted by: erin | June 28, 2007 at 08:25 AM
I love their various states of undress. My kids are the same way. Yesterday Tristan was running around with no pants and the tail of his onesie flapping in the breeze. It's a great look I tell you.
Posted by: Mama Urchin | June 28, 2007 at 08:30 AM
beautiful photos amanda. i love strawberry rhubarb. the last time i had that combo was at a campground in maine. :) the owners baked fresh pies every evening and you could walk over and buy a slice. delicious. xo
Posted by: shari | June 28, 2007 at 08:33 AM
oh i love s & r, one of natures perfect combinations, although i dont know if i could muster enthusiam for them pre 6 am... ouch.
Posted by: hannah | June 28, 2007 at 08:35 AM
i am in awe of how it is that you have made and eaten muffins by 6am. i've often remembered another post i read here months ago where you had made muffins before breakfast. i make muffins often - but never before breakfast - and i've thought, since reading that last early-morning-muffin-post, how nice it would be to start the day with muffins in the oven.
Posted by: emily | June 28, 2007 at 08:39 AM
its so nice to see you have breakfast A and breakfast B... We sometimes have breakfast C too! ARGH! :)I am still doing coffee in silence at our first breakfast...! We have a 530 riser here! Sometimes i am on the couch having breakfast a...
Posted by: homemakerang | June 28, 2007 at 08:43 AM
niiiice! thanks for the recipe.
Posted by: jean | June 28, 2007 at 08:43 AM
Did i read that right? Pre-breakfast snack? It's good to know we are not the only family on the planet to have pre-breakfast. I've always compared my little ones to Hobbits, with the many, many meals we eat daily! Great pictures by the way!
Posted by: nancy | June 28, 2007 at 08:46 AM
Oh wow, thank you for sharing the recipe. Must try. And the picture? Darling.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I wish I was in your family!!
Posted by: earthchick | June 28, 2007 at 08:49 AM
Oh my goodness! Did you seriously bake muffins in this heat? I'm astounded and amazed! By the way I love how your daughter is looking at the boys, LOL...kinda a "what ARE you doing?" kinda look.
Posted by: Jess | June 28, 2007 at 08:59 AM
yum yum yum! i have some rhubarb growing in the back yard that I must eat! although i need a vegan recipe. the search begins. thanks for the yummy idea!
Posted by: Julia | June 28, 2007 at 09:22 AM
your lucky your kids eat Rhubarb. I am from Idaho, now living in Texas, and my kids wont eat it at all, and neither will my husband! Ive been dying for a piece of strawberry rhubarb pie, and I just might have to eat the whole thing myself! (not really) I have a great recipe for pie if youd like it.
Have a happy day!
Christina
Posted by: christina Gomez | June 28, 2007 at 09:28 AM
Ohhhh THANK YOU for this recipe. Strawberry Rhubarb anything is the best ever, can't wait to try the muffins!
Allison
Posted by: Allison | June 28, 2007 at 09:56 AM
Oh heaven!! Rhubarb and strawberries are my favorite! The vintage table cloth really does make it that much better too!
Posted by: Laura | June 28, 2007 at 10:25 AM
These sound delicious! Thanks for posting the recipe - I can't wait to try it out.
Posted by: Kirsten | June 28, 2007 at 10:32 AM
These are such cute pics! Now for the question bonanza, I live in NH, how do I find out about a CSA? Is it difficult to find? Do local farmers do it? Nosey, Nosey, Nosey!
Posted by: Helena Brearley | June 28, 2007 at 11:15 AM
yummy! i have been searching for a rhubarb recioe that doesn't use too much sugar, will give yours a try. thanks!
Posted by: michele | June 28, 2007 at 11:21 AM
thanks for sharing this recipe! yum!
Posted by: Grace | June 28, 2007 at 11:39 AM
six in the a.m.?
Posted by: hazeljoy | June 28, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Yum! Thank you for that - we are overloaded with strawberries at our place.
Posted by: Viv | June 28, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Man, does that ever take me back to childhood! Strawberry Rhubarb crunch. YUM!
Posted by: Frank | June 28, 2007 at 12:01 PM
YUM. Oh, yum. Yes, a vintage tablecloth always makes things taste better. Love that pretty Wilendur, I use mine for everything, it's so cheery!
Posted by: Jessica | June 28, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Yum, I love the combo of strawberries and rhubarb---especially in a pie!
Posted by: Amber | June 28, 2007 at 01:09 PM
Love this time of year. I used to make Strawberry and rhubarb pies. Yum! Give me a cup of coffee with that and I am good to go.
Posted by: Jen | June 28, 2007 at 01:37 PM
Those strawberries look to die for! Thank you for sharing the recipe - Sometimes I think of how tiresome it would be to be up that early (my baby wakes up between 7 and 8), but you've made it look very refreshing and appealing. Tomorrow I may have to set my alarm. :)
Posted by: Melissa | June 28, 2007 at 01:38 PM
6am pre-breakfast muffin snack?
certainly i'm not ready for kids. but i would love to be one of yours....look at them!! they love their pre-breakfast muffin snack!!!
Posted by: cristina - string*THEORY | June 28, 2007 at 02:14 PM
Oh fabulous, I'm strawberry picking on Saturday in Litchfield and have been scouring the web for good strawberry and recipes - this is perfect (my rhubarb needs to be cut again)! Thank you!
Posted by: Tiffany | June 28, 2007 at 04:42 PM
delicious-6 am.-muffins...Isn't summer gorgeous? Sitting outside for pre-breakfast in the sun? I do see a glimpse of (strong?) coffee on that picture (I'd need a liter of it at that time of day).
Off now working on my 23:00 pm tramezzini with pesto, tapenade and mortadella. ;)
Posted by: diana | June 28, 2007 at 04:46 PM
Oooo thank you for the recipe. I SEARCHED for a recipe just like this a few summers back and never came up with anything worth making again. THANK YOU! (What time DO you get up anyways?)
Heidi
Posted by: Heidi | June 28, 2007 at 05:44 PM
My, what a fabulous idea. My dad has just cut the rhubarb from his garden, and its sitting in my fridge telling me its bored, bored, bored of being a crumble or a pie... MUFFINS .. HOORAH!! xx
Posted by: The Vintage Magpie | June 28, 2007 at 05:44 PM
Oh and I also wanted to add that I so admire and love that you present food to your family with such love and care. (Tablecloth, flowers, cute lantern) I think I've seen your table pictured similarly in other posts. Your children will grow up with such happy memories to cherish. Most of our food is Trader Joes fare- healthy- but mostly made by someone else. I want to put love into the food we eat the way you do for your family. I need to and want to start cooking more, I love it, but it fell by the wayside after my daughter was born a little over a year ago. Inspiring...did you write anything about mealtimes in your book? (Which I can't wait for!)
Posted by: Heidi | June 28, 2007 at 05:52 PM
Um, 6 am?!?! yeah, I'm not an early riser, lol! Those look so good. I'll have to get some rhubarb at our local gardener's market this weekend and make those muffins. They look divine!
Posted by: Kim | June 28, 2007 at 05:56 PM
sounds great! i have been wanting to bake muffins for a long time now! maybe i will bake these and some pumpkin muffins!
Posted by: erin scissorhands | June 28, 2007 at 07:53 PM
Great picture of the kids. I have similar shots of mine from the past summer, naked, eating breakfast outside in the dappled early morning sun.
Posted by: Lazy Cow | June 28, 2007 at 08:05 PM
um, I am sooooo glad my toddler gets up at 7am or later. I'm a morning person, and I bake for breakfast, but I have my limits.
Posted by: Margo | June 28, 2007 at 09:43 PM
We must be on the same page with this strawberry thing! I'll have to try it with the rhubarb next time we're at the farmers market.
Posted by: Laural | June 28, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Those strawberries look so nice, thank you for the recipe.
Posted by: Anne | June 29, 2007 at 01:22 AM
your babes are adorable!
and i have that lantern too :)
Posted by: Lindsey Clare | June 29, 2007 at 01:33 AM
yum. we had strawberry and rhubarb crumble last night for pudding which is my favourite combination. The muffins look yummy though - i;ll try them next time. x
Posted by: kerrie | June 29, 2007 at 05:53 AM
Cannot wait to try this! Thanks!
Posted by: Katie J | June 29, 2007 at 08:45 AM
I'm an avid fan of anything w/rhubarb...thanks for the recipe. (And if this is pre-breakfast, I can't wait to see what breakfast looks like!)
Posted by: nic | June 29, 2007 at 09:20 AM
I made this last night. So good. So good. Thank you!
Posted by: Bess Sorensen | June 29, 2007 at 10:33 AM