So much rhubarb!

So, it would appear that a recent day of heavy rain, followed by an unseasonably warm sunny spell, has brought on the start of rhubarb season!
Not only is my plant in the garden finally producing as it ought to be, I seem to have a field of it at the allotment. I don't know how many plants there are altogether. I thought there were 3, but I'm now wondering if there are more. When I popped down there yesterday I found this:

So I filled a carrier bag and brought it home. I set about adding lots of rhubarb recipes to my Pinterest board, and decided that a rhubarb meringue pie would be a great place to start. The perfect dessert for this hot weather! Once again I used The Caked Crusader's recipe. I've only made 2 things from this blog, but both have turned out fantastically so I think I will be a regular visitor from now on!

The rhubarb looked lovely all chopped up..

 I definitely think I'll be getting my allotment rental moneys worth in rhubarb alone. This was only about 7 sticks!

The finished meringue!

My slice. Note the al fresco dining, in March!

Sewing

My second project - a cushion cover. I'm really pleased with it and I LOVE the fabric. It's not perfect  - the print on the back is side-on, perhaps I can pretend that it was meant to be that way? There seems to be a lot of faff with sewing but then all of a sudden it comes together really quickly and you have something really cool that only took you an hour or two. I love it. More than crochet, I think. Over the past 6 months or so I've gone on a bit of a journey from "oh, I wish I could craft but I just can't" to just giving things a go and discovering that I have hidden hobbies.

My next project will probably be a cutlery roll to take camping, although I'm also going to be working on a top secret project for Mother's Day when the materials arrive.

Cherry Bakewells

Last night I made 24 cherry bakewells. Just a standard Friday night :)

I followed The Caked Crusader's recipe but with a couple of adjustments. Firstly, I had some morello cherry jam in the fridge from when I made the wonderful cherry bakewell cake a few weeks ago. I'm practically drooling at the memory of just how amazing that cake was. So I used that instead of strawberry jam. Also, I had some of that new(ish) fondant icing sugar just waiting to find its purpose in life, and I thought that might work well on top of cherry bakewells. I used natural coloured glace cherries, because that was what I had in the cupboard, and I halved them. For some reason the recipe gave me 24 little cakes rather than 14. No complaints! We managed to hold out until 9am this morning but then we caved and had to try one. They're delicious!

The recipe used 3 eggs, so that leaves us with 'only' about 20 to get through..