Rhubarb Apple Crisp...

It's summer and walking through the produce isle late last night I saw Rhubarb.  Rhubarb looks like giant red celery stalks. 

I started wondering while I was shopping...   Could I actually make a sugar-free, flour free Rhubarb and (something--fill in the blank with another fruit you like) crisp??? 

Desserts are not my thing, but something about the Rhubarb was challenging me, so I bought a couple stalks, a couple Granny Smith's, a cup opf barley oats (which are much lower in carbs than the rolled oats) and I was out the door with my bag of goodies and up for the challenge! 

Could I pull it off?  More importantly, would it taste good??? 

The verdict:

IT'S DELICIOUS!!

Happy Friday!

Doe passing through for a snack...

I was coming out of the shower tonight and was startled when in the dark I saw a deer right outside my office window. She seemed to be more concerned about Finn, who was watching her from the windowsill than she was about me frantically shooting photos of her eating the apple (in manual mode--no less!) It doesn't look very dark out there, but it was, other than the light from a lantern I have outside my office window.

When the doe made a move for Finn, I became worried, as I didn't want her to charge the window when I was about to leave the house. All worked out well in the end. I wasn't able to wait until she finished eating her apples, but I was able to move Finn out of my office and leave the house tonight.

The quality of these photos are terrible due to lack of light and all the reflections from the security monitors, but they do tell a cute little story...