Monday Moodboard "What do you love about Summer?"

Hello folks!

It's Summer finally! And that's the season I love most of all!

What do I love about Summer?
First of all that's warm weather with a lot of sun and blue sky. I like to meet my friends and enjoy nice evenings on open terraces drinking something cold....
I love summer coz I celebrate my birthday in the end of June. For me that's one of three very important days (beside my birthday there are also New Year Eve and International Women Day). When I was a child it was kinda hard to invite all my friends for my birthday as usually most of them where going to summerhouses.
I love summer coz you wear lovely dresses and skirts and don't need to look like a cabbage (we have cold winters and sometimes you need to wear few layers of clothes)
Unfortunatelly I don't live near a sea but we have few lakes around the town and sometimes go to a lake to swimm and have a bbq :)
I like to start my summer in spring and finish it in autumn by go to some warm countries thus I have a feeling that my summer lasts longer than just three months :)
I like to watch how summer changes its color by flowers...Each and every month has different color coz have different flowers...
I love summer berries pies - they are light and tasty and very fresh.
Summer is also a time when we make some homemade stuff like jams or salads that you keep in the fridge and then open during the winter to enjoy all that tasty berries and vegetables that summer gives you :)
Oh and of course Ice Cream! Impossible to enjoy summer without an ice cream :)

And what do you love about Summer?

Nature photography by butenasPhotography

Monogrammed Hot Pink Wide Brim Sun Hat by TripleACreations

Poppies photograph by BeatriceLechtanski

Rhubarb Berries Pie

   Hello folks!

Last weekend I was very pretty lucky as my friend brought me some rhubarb. So I bought some frozen berries and baked rhubarb berries pie. And I'm ready to share the recipe with you. It's not very difficult recipe and you won't spend the whole day with this pie ))))
   I've been cooking this pie with such dough for the very first time and it was delicious and tasty so I'm sure you can cook it as well )))

Ingridients:
25 g of fresh yeast
200 ml of warm milk
salt pinch
1 egg
200 g of butter (I used 180gr)
400 g of a flour
1 tablespoons of sugar
1 tea spoon of natural vanilla sugar or seeds of 1 pod of vanilla
Stuffing:
800 gr of a rhubarb
500-600 g of sugar
200 g of raspberry or other berries on your taste
For dough greasing:
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoons of milk

Rhubarb:
Clear a rhubarb of a thin skin and cut stalks on cubes with the party of 1 cm. Put in a pan, add sugar.
Boil thoroughly on slow fire until sugar completely be dissolved, and the rhubarb became soft. But it shouldn't be too soft. Set aside aside and let's cool down. Then cast away on a colander and leave while all liquid won't flow down.

 Dough:
Yeast fill in with warm milk and set aside for 5 minutes.
Chop the butter by a knife up to uniformly paste.

Add to milk with yeast the egg, salt, sugar, vanilla sugar and a flour. Add the butter and chop everything by knife. You can knead dough in a food processor with a nozzle "hook".

  

Collect dough in a uniform lump.

 In a deep and capacious pan pour very cold water and accurately lower dough, it under own weight will fall by a bottom.

Leave it until your dough won't emerge on a surface, about 30-40 minutes.

Preheat an oven to 180C.
Here you can see how I unfrozen berries - left them on the colander to get rid of juice.

Put the dough to the working surface which has been slightly powdered with a flour. Rub off a little paper towel and well knead. Don't add a flour, it has to remain quite sticky. (Don't have a photo as my hands where in the dough and I just couldn't make a pic :))

Ready dough lay out on a table well strewed with a flour, divide into two half, one of which slightly the bigger size.
The most part roll in layer 0,3 cm thick. Lay out in a form with a diameter of 24 cm so that edges hanged down.

Lay out all rhubarb stuffing without liquid.
Add raspberry or other berries over rhubarb and slightly powder with sugar. Tighten dough edges to the center, superfluous cut off.
Of the remained dough make a lattice and decorate your pie.
Grease a dough surface with an egg yolk with milk and put everything in in advance warmed oven for 30-40 minutes.
To ready pie let's stand in the form of 15-20 minutes.
To give to a table warm or completely cooled down.