Keep up with all the great new food blogs? Ha -- it's an impossible task. Some times, I scan an event round-up and not a single food blog name is familiar. But discovering new food blogs is as much fun as scoring a long sought-after ingredient. So it's fun to browse the blogrolls, just to see who's new, who's interesting, who's fun, who's compelling. Here are some new (or at least, new to me) blogs I found recently. Consider this post the "five a day" of food blogs, they're good for ya, doctor's orders.

Recently it was brought to my attention that rhubarb may possibly be the rockstar ingredient for 2008. When I first read that post declaring rhubarb to be this year's trendy food, I was skeptical. I doubted there could be that many rhubarb recipes popping up all at once, maybe because I've never been that much of a rhubarb fan. Then rhubarb started smacking me in the face everywhere I looked. Yes, I am fully awake now and have realized there is a bona-fide rhubarb trend going on.

Another fabulous dessert from the lovely Ms. Glaze. Rhubarb is technically a vegetable, right?

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With the value of a dollar going down, and gas prices going up, the ability to make healthy food choices is getting more and more costly. Now that we are spending more money at the pump, we have less to spend at the grocery store, and many are resorting to just buying the cheapest food they can get their hands on.

To quote Megnut: "Summer drinks should be like summer evenings: long, light and cool." May I add? Summer drinks should be like summer evenings: easy, relaxed and refreshing.

In two days, my home will be descended upon by a mother-daughter group from Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland, Colorado and Saskatchewan. Half are staying at my house (what we're calling the "restaurant") and half across the street at a neighbor's, whose shaded patio has "happy hour" written all over it. So I went looking for recipes for easy summer cocktails, concoctions that can be served on a moment's notice, ones that will titillate the eyes and the nose and the throat.

So belly up, bloggers, summer's nearly here.

Today I'm thinking about my mother, who raised ten kids and made a hot breakfast for us every school day, and I'm wondering how she did it. Even though I'm not a mother, I'm smart enough to realize it's one of the most demanding jobs of all. Mothers feed their children in so many ways, and as I've been reading my favorite food blogs this week, I've been finding a lot of food related memories of mothers all over the world.