Breaking Ground: The Rhubarb Report Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce Recipe

It's been a great week in the garden. I planted my herbs and harvested some more rhubarb for a strawberry rhubarb sauce that was out of this world. I had a couple of iris bloom. Not as many as last year. I do plan to move them to other areas of my garden. My old fashioned wild roses are going to bloom soon. My peony bush has come back stronger than last year and looks like Ill have more blooms there as well. Here is the strawberry rhubarb sauce recipe. This is adapted from the New Basics Cookbook. You'll need:

10 stalks of rhubard cut into one inch chunks

4 cups hulled and halved strawberries

1 cup sugar

1 cup orange juice

zest of one lemon

zest of one orange

1 inch of fresh ginger peeled and grated fine

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Place all the ingredients with the exception of the vanilla in a large pot and bring to a boil stirring often to dissolve the sugar. Skim off any foam that rises to the top. Reduce heat and simmer gently for 12 minutes stirring a few times. Off heat and allow to cool to room temperature. Add vanilla then refrigerate for several hours. Goes great over short cake, angel food cake or vanilla ice cream.