Rainy Day Rhubarb Muffins

While Spring can be all sunshine and flowers and brand new life, at least where I’m from, it still includes a healthy dose of rain. These rhubarb muffins have cured my rainy day blues many a time and I know they’ll do the same for you.

I’ll never forget the first time I had these muffins. It was a cold, dark, dreary Oregon Spring evening and I was sitting in my mother-in-law’s cozy kitchen on the family farm. I was lamenting how I had no idea where my life was going and how I had no idea who I was supposed to be. Across the counter, she quietly mixed ingredients, just listening to all my sorrows. As the smell of baking muffins permeated the kitchen, I felt my spirits start to lift. Halfway into the first bite, smeared with a healthy pat of butter, my life looked a little less terrible. In that moment, my wise mother-in-law knew it wasn’t words of advice or direction that I was looking for. She saw that all I needed was a simple, sweet reminder of life’s goodness.

This recipe first appeared in Potager: From the Kitchen to the Garden.