Peach and kale salad with Soy sauce and ginger dressing.

It’s July and peaches are in full swing! There is something amazing and special to me about the smell of fresh fruit. It’s like I can smell the sun rising out of them, and that never fails to makes me smile.

Which is great! But then I get over-excited and buy too many for the family to eat. I know, a curse of too much fresh fruit. Darn! So how to make the best of it and use them up before they go south?

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Rhubarb apple soup! A surprise in a bowl.

I love rhubarb! The color, the tart, it being a sign that summer is getting close! My mother has always grown huge stalks in her garden, so much so that it looks more like a huge bush. When I was a kid I used to imagine I was an Olympian doing hurdles when I would rush toward the rhubarb, jump it, and clear it. I felt like a horse jumping a fence. I went back to Michigan last year and my mom and I harvested her crop: Note the wheelbarrow…

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