snowleopard

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8th May grats

I’m grateful:

  • that my nosebleed happened while I was at home this morning, rather than at work, and that it reminded me that I hardly ever get them any more, whereas I used to get them all the time back in the days of my chronic hay fever
  • that the super-big quarterly meeting is over, my beans are counted and all in a row, and that the budget was approved with no questions asked, result!
  • for a giant box of rhubarb which chief brought back from his country pad after a certain amount of hinting one lunchtime ;) – about 5 of us took home big bags of it!
  • for sunshine on the way home – it was actually quite hot!
  • for tasty English strawberries and that I’ve managed not to eat them all

May 08, 2012, 11:30AM PDT | 21 cheers


Comments:

Miss E

Strawberries

I am very snobbish about strawberries, they have to be English, yum yum!

May 08, 2012, 12:28PM PDT | Respond to this 3 cheers

wren You'll not see nothing like the mighty wren!

rhubarb...

What will you do with all that rhubarb? I find it to be a most mysterious and baffling vegetable.

May 08, 2012, 03:58PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 5 cheers

tikini tikiniland ~ where it is always summertime

Rhubarb

There must be many ways to enjoy it. Personally I am very very fond of rhubarb pie. And of course there is strawberry rhubarb pie. But the easiest way to enjoy rhubarb is to cook up a tart batch and have it warm on vanilla ice cream.

I guess if sweets are out so is rhubarb because on its own it is simply sour.

May 08, 2012, 04:05PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 7 cheers

wren You'll not see nothing like the mighty wren!

hmmmm...

Maybe it could be sweetened with Stevia or some other less toxic sweetener? But is it worth the trouble?

May 09, 2012, 04:10AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

aswedishlime

Is all sugar bad?

Or are you just trying to moderate? Are you trying to control for diabetes?

I enjoy rhubarb, and find it wonderful. I usually leave the effort up to restaurants, but maybe this is the year I try to do something on my own.

May 09, 2012, 06:39AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

wren You'll not see nothing like the mighty wren!

Sugar...

I guess it’s a matter of opinion whether or not sugar is bad. I think it is poison. This is based on my own strong tendency toward sugar addiction, and also the number of people I know who had developed Type 2 Diabetes from sugar consumption.

May 09, 2012, 08:03AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 8 cheers

That's fair - aswedishlime
follow-up thought on this - aswedishlime
agreed! - Dreamdancer12
hmmm.... - wren
hmmm - aswedishlime
When I eat sugar - wren
Untitled - Acid Western
Yes, - wren

aswedishlime

hmmm, got curious

and looked up savory recipes! Lots of ideas in these threads and blog posts:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/626621

http://www.oprah.com/blogs/6-New-Ways-to-Use-Rhubarb

http://www.thekitchn.com/rhubarb-for-dinner-savory-rhub-151491

May 09, 2012, 06:50AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

wren You'll not see nothing like the mighty wren!

very interesting!

I may have to experiment if rhubarb is offered in this summer’s farmer’s market!

May 09, 2012, 08:04AM PDT | Respond to this 9 cheers

wembleyheads needs to visit 43things daily!

oh my good golly,

rhubarb with lentils! Honestly I had no idea there were savory rhubarb recipes. Like Wren, I avoid sugar, and am gonna look for rhubarb at the farmers’ market!! Yippee!

May 09, 2012, 09:03AM PDT | Respond to this 4 cheers

tikini tikiniland ~ where it is always summertime

Probably any sweetener would work

Agave syrup, honey, stevia.

Honey has other health benefits so if it works for you honey is a good choice.

Rhubarb has a particular flavor and texture that I happen to truly love. It takes me back to my childhood when it was one of the many foods growing in the garden. The leaves are not edible, and that fascinated me as a child.

May 09, 2012, 10:18AM PDT | Respond to this 5 cheers

TG

I like rhubarb

straight from the garden, and have since I was a child.

My daughter likes it raw too.

May 09, 2012, 02:40PM PDT | Respond to this 3 cheers

snowleopard

I'm going to

make a rhubarb crumble this evening.

I see nobody else has mentioned crumble so maybe it’s a British thing? Recipe here although I’m going to add orange juice and chunks of stem ginger. Can’t imagine eating rhubarb any other way, although a colleague trumped me and said she makes rhubarb crumble ice cream – that sounds amazing!

May 09, 2012, 12:00AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 10 cheers

Cloudberry is a pea in a pod. With another pea.

definitely a British thing

Americans eat cobblers – but mostly with soft fruit – and the equivalent of a crumble is a “brown betty”, usually with apple. There’s another word for it, but I forget. We may occasionally call it crumble, actually. But yeah, rhubarb crumble is something we’d never dream of, too bad!

May 09, 2012, 02:31AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 4 cheers

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At a tangent, Cloudberry,

have you heard of a ‘coddled’ egg?

I made one yesterday. You cook them in the little dish, which usually look just like this one. First you butter the inside the ceramic coddler, crack in raw egg, add a little salt, then optionally cheese on top. Here’s a photo from the internet.

May 09, 2012, 08:22AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

Cloudberry is a pea in a pod. With another pea.

I've heard of it...

but would not have been able to describe it to you.

will you make me one sometime? please please?

May 09, 2012, 08:49AM PDT | Respond to this 4 cheers

wren You'll not see nothing like the mighty wren!

rhubarb crumble

sounds delightfully British!

May 09, 2012, 04:11AM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers

calypte ready for something new :)

wow

if you get that recipe, please do share!

My (and by ‘my’ I mean ‘my dad’s’!) rhubarb should be pickable soon – ooh, nom!! :)

And to add to the conversation: I stew my rhubarb (big casserole, 10mins in micro. Lazy!) and use it with ice cream (adds sweet) or yogurt (can be challengingly sour!), or with a crumble topping. If you want a natural sweetness, I often slice up some apples to stew with them.

May 09, 2012, 06:10AM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers

Miss E

Wow

you’ve hit on something mentioning rhubarb! I love it as a fool (stewed with orange, dark muscovado sugar and then the syrup reduced, add that and the pulp to Total yogurt) and definitely with ginger!

May 09, 2012, 10:27AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 4 cheers

snowleopard

I know!

Who’d have thunk there was so much passion for the ‘barb on old 43T eh? ;)

I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s takes on this and the sugar debate. I try not to eat too much sugar she says, scoffing another piece of crystallised ginger from the giant bag she bought on Monday but I make an exception for crumble.

Tried to make rhubarb fool once but it was disappointing and I didn’t manage to get much flavour out of it. Maybe I should have reduced the syrup. Mmmmm!

May 09, 2012, 10:57AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 5 cheers

Miss E

Deffo

try that! Also make sure the yogurt has all the water strained off it before you put the other stuff in, or, if feeling indulgent, add some whipped cream too. Then just stir a minimal amount, swirling the syrup through it rather than beating it in

is now planning a trip to get rhubarb and yogurt

May 09, 2012, 12:26PM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

Dawn Treader New Idea: Organise my goals using Maslow's hierarchy of needs

I could eat rhubarb...

...until it came out of my ears..
  • stewed rhubarb
  • stewed rhubarb and custard
  • stewed rhubarb and cream
  • rhubarb crumble
  • rhubarb crumble and custard
  • rhubarb crumble and cream
  • rhubarb tart
  • rhubarb tart and custard
  • rhubarb tart and cream
  • rhubarb yoghurt
  • rhubarb and apple pie
  • rhubarb and apple pie and custard
  • rhubarb and apple pie and cream
    .... Got to go now, more later….

May 09, 2012, 09:37AM PDT | Respond to this 11 cheers

Collectorofcats can hardly wait for the asparagus to pop up so it will be truly Spring

Rhubarb

Rhubarb is great on it’s own in a pie. I’ve been looking for my grandmother’s recipe which uses evaporated milk if anyone has a recipe for a one crust rhubarb pie using evaporated milk let me know.

May 08, 2012, 04:53PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

diamondlightfoot

rhubarb custard

My mom had a recipe for rhubarb custard pie that was to die for. I have it here somewhere. I live in TX now and it’s pretty impossible to get rhubarb.

May 08, 2012, 05:19PM PDT | Respond to this 7 cheers

Colleen_C_C SMART -- Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely -- GOALS

In my family

we called it “rhubarb crisp”—but I’m pretty sure it was really a “crumble,” if GoogleImageSearch tells me no lies. grin

No matter what you call it: enjoy! (Rhubarb season is far too short.)

May 09, 2012, 05:19AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

Dreamdancer12 Doing a happy dance of excitement

Crisp

We called it “crisp” as well. Favorites were strawberry/rhubarb/apple/raspberry/peach…. yep, ecclectic!

Oh, and btw, if you beat and egg and mix it through the rhubarb and let it sit about 20 min before adding the other fruit it cuts the tartness considerably and you only need about 1/5 the sugar you would otherwise…

May 09, 2012, 08:30AM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers

Missa Is so excited to go to Walt Disney World!

My grandma's strawberry rhubarb pie

is a family favorite. The strawberries tone down the rhubarb a bit.

May 09, 2012, 08:42AM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers


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