Wednesday 16 April 2014

Asparagus, Rhubarb and Chocolate Polenta Cake



 This evening washing the first allotment rhubarb.....


When you pull the pink stem from its crown deep in the soil, a little protective leaf comes too..


when you cut it off it drips a clear sticky slime - like when you cut daffodils.....



And our first asparagus spears...


they remind me a bit of bluebells before they open ....


Some garlicky roasted peppers for tomorrow's  lunch...


and the uncooked  pastry case for the leek and asparagus tart - I'm experimenting with replacing some of  the flour with pinhead oatmeal to give it a bit of a crunch....


Lunch tomorrow is for my niece who has been away for a whole year travelling the world with her partner - volunteering in youth projects in Bolivia, India, Nepal.....and I thought  home grown asparagus and rhubarb would be a seasonal way to welcome her back to our English spring.

The Chocolate Orange Polenta Cake ( my own recipe) is just to celebrate her return.....


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