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Archive for October, 2008

rhubarb blueberry hand pies

I live in the sort of place where a casual mention of your fondness for rhubarb is likely to land you in somebody’s brother-in-law’s mother’s field with an armload of rhubarb stalks and an abiding gratitude for midwestern neighborliness, which is how I came to have several quarts of diced rhubarb in my freezer.  Naturally, I would have preferred the rhubarb to end up in a pie rather than in the freezer, but Chris can conceive of few things more repulsive than cooked fruit and I can’t eat a whole pie by myself.

I can, as it turns out, eat quite a lot of hand pies by myself, and I can eat them in the car on the way to work.  For breakfast.


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