Seasonal Plate-A Grilled Meal

The photo below shows the meal for Seasonal Plate food column for next week.

Sweet and Spicy Chicken Skewers was previously posted at http://sockfairies.blogspot.com/2014/05/celebrating-moms.html

Grilled Peach Caprese Salad previously posted at 

http://sockfairies.blogspot.com/2014/05/fire-up-grill.html

Strawberry –Rhubarb Sauce

Cook’s notes: Celebrate spring with the sweet tart taste of rhubarb with strawberries. This sauce is versatile using it as jam on muffins, over ice cream or pound cake or as a side for meats and poultry. The sauce can be pureed in blender to make it smooth or pulse a few times in blender and let some chunks remain in the sauce. Sauce will thicken as it is refrigerated for several hours. I used a margarita glass for ice cream scoop with Strawberry-Rhubarb Sauce. 

Ingredients:

• 2 cups diced rhubarb and 2 cups diced strawberries
• 1 cup sugar 
• ½ cup water
• 1 TB. Grand Marnier
• ½ TB. lemon juice
• 1 TB. grated orange or lemon zest
• optional dash of cinnamon

Directions:

• In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar and water and stir to dissolve.
• Add rhubarb and simmer on low 15 minutes, add in strawberries, lemon juice, zest and cook 10 minutes longer. If using cinnamon add in this cooking step. 
• Remove from heat and add in Grand Marnier.
• Puree in blender or pulse a few times in blender keeping in some chunks.
• Refrigerate to thicken.

A banner day for Bella and I. We both made front page for WWN in Rockport, Texas. 

The World According to Bella 
http://www.wwnrockport.com/2014/05/the-world-according-to-bella-fishing.html

and my recipe for Taco Boats 

http://www.wwnrockport.com/2014/05/recipe-taco-boats-by-sue-ready.html