Marble Bundt Cake

I ran across this recipe a few days ago on the cake duchess site and couldn't resist it. She calls it a double chocolate swirl bundt cake.

Me, I call it a marble bundt cake but what's in a name? This was delicious and moist and well worth the effort.

Rhubarb cream pie, again

Rhubarb cream pie: I've posted this recipe before, twice. I guess after a few hundred posts a person might start repeating themselves. But this is the first time I've had a picture of it.

Two days ago I harvested 6 quarts of rhubarb for the freezer. Rhubarb pie for Thanksgiving.

Rhubarb cream pie from dear mother-in-law's cherished family recipe. Click here to get the recipe.

Moth

This moth is about 4 inches long and so well camouflaged I never noticed it until Pat pointed it out. We were working in the shade of the cedar tree putting a bench together and there it was on the bark. Somehow the camera brought it out better than the naked eye.

Greek Pizza

Goodwife Pat wanted a Greek pizza and I decided to try and make one. We had had several at some of the pizza joints around town. Now most of the pizza joints in New England are owned by Greeks, even the Italian ones and the pizza they serve is kind of Italian in style, somewhat different from New York pizza or Chicago deep dish pizza. But they also will serve a Greek or Mediterranean style pizza, without a red sauce and with spinach, olives, maybe mushrooms and with crumbled feta cheese on top.

As an aside, if your neighborhood pizza parlor also serves gyros, lamb shishkabob, and baklava then it's probably owned by Greeks.

Searching around the internet brought me many versions and the one I lit on was found here: http://tastykitchen.com/blog/2013/04/greek-pizza/. This was more or less how I did it. Pat didn't want tomatoes. I put on some spinach, olives and some fresh basil from a potted plant I had. I had some dough made up from two days ago. So this went together fast. I preheated the oven to 500 degrees and put in my cast iron pizza pan. The last pizza stone I had cracked in half. The cast iron works great.

In my version everything went on the pizza except the diced cucumber and feta cheese which went on after it came out of the oven. About twelve minutes usually does it.

Now this was a very good pizza but the crowning glory was the Tzatziki sauce: http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/tzatziki-sauce/. I didn't have any fresh dill but the dried dill worked fine. I got lazy and bought lemon Greek yogurt instead of adding lemon juice to plain yogurt. At any rate the combination of dill, garlic, lemon and yogurt was perfect. Spread a little on each piece and dipped the crust in the sauce. We tasted garlic all night.

We both gave this a two thumbs up. Definitely a do again.

Grape arbor

I finally finished the grape arbor and planted two Concord Seedless Grapevines. Grapes to eat and grape jelly as well as a shady spot to sit, but not for a year or two until it fills in. In the meantime we have to go shopping for a bench.

The new grape arbor sits just behind the vegetable garden at the edge of the woods.

One of the grapevines in training to grow up and fill the arbor with leafy shade and juicy grapes.