Pea and Parsley Pesto

I’ve been so lazy lately. It’s the heat. It’s even too hot to go swimming! 

The last couple of weeks we have received shelling peas from our CSA. I’ve never been a big fan of peas so I wasn’t sure what to do with them. One day on the Food Network I heard someone say pea pesto. A light bulb went off—what about parsley-pea pesto!? We have a small garden at my mom's house and the parsley was ripe for the picking. We didn’t put it on pasta or on a crostini. Instead we put it on a pizza and added some diced kalamata olives and parmesan cheese. The combination of the olives with the pesto was very satisfying and so fresh. It tasted like summer.To die for! 

Here is the recipe:

Strawberry-Rhubarb Crumble

You know what is good; strawberries fresh from the berry farm with the warmth of the sun still on them. You know what goes well with strawberries; rhubarb!!

Below is a recipe I found on Smitten Kitchen. If you haven’t been to this website you must go. It’s fabulous. She takes the best pictures (which are also for sale) and has the best recipes. She even has a book coming out. 

I bought a flat of strawberries from Moll’s Berry Farm this past weekend and even though there are 1 million things to do with strawberries I wanted something I had never made before and this recipe jumped off the page. I decided to make it last night. It was hot last night (yes it gets hot in Fargo!) and turning on the oven bumped the temperature up in my tiny kitchen by about 1000 degrees (or so it felt) but it was worth it.

As the crumble was baking, the smell drew me back into the kitchen repeatedly. I knew I shouldn't but I couldn't help myself; I kept looking in the oven. The berries were buckling under the heat and as they did their juices sprang forth like a volcano. When it was finally done and I took that first bite each individual flavor exploded on my taste buds. I puckered up from the tartness of the rhubarb and lemon. The strawberries danced in my mouth and as they descended, my stomach smiled. It was happy. Summer is here and life can’t get any better.

 

Strawberry-Rhubarb Crumble (taken directly from Smitten Kitchen)