Refreshing Summer Recipes with Fruit

Love summer. Love fruit. Love gathering with friends and loved ones for picnics, cookouts and the like. Last weekend Alex and I traveled to Chicago for a bachelor and bachelorette party. It was a FABULOUS weekend and I came home with a couple extremely easy and refreshing recipes from the bridal shower that I want to file away..

SANGRIA

This recipe doesn't get any easier and you can make it in any volume that you wish! Find your favored container, filll it half way with red wine and the rest of the way with orange soda. Add some cubed/sliced fruit, apples and oranges work great and you'll typically have them in the fridge so there's no need to buy special ingredients!

RHUBARB PIE

Ingredients:
1 egg, slightly beaten, 1 cup sugar, 3 tbl flour, 1/3(ish) cup water, 1 tbl butter, 3 cups of rhubarb (and strawberries if you want), and a 9" pie shell, unbaked.

Cut the rhubarb and strawberries into 1/2 inch pieces, mix all ingredients except the rhubarb. Place rhubarb into the pie shell and then pour the mixture over the rhubarb. Bake at 375 for 45 minutes. Thanks to Rachel Crawford for sharing these recipes with me! I might also have to ask her for her salad recipe as well... I'm trying out the rhubarb pie recipe tonight! I love rhubarb because it reminds me of summer, my mom and grandma.

Update: Turns out it's really easy and delicious. Best if eaten the same day or the day after. Here's a picture of my attempt: