So, what is everyone doing today?

Some how I just don't believe that to be true. Mom supposedly made good straweberry rhubarb pie. I always thought it was waste of perfectly good strawberres.

-Margaret

I've always maintained that people that don't like rhubarb have never tasted it cooked the right way....

Cheryl

My reaction got him hysterical when I told him I had no idea what that was, didn't like the sound of it and had no intention of ever tasting it.

You know what, I did give in and taste it, but the rest still goes. Pyuch !!

Lucille

Aw shucks. I love rhubarb. As a sauce, as a pie, as a cobbler. Only problem is, I don't have a recipe to replace the sugar content. Of course, I haven't looked for one, either, since I don't have anyone with any fresh rhubarb around and my yard's too shady to grow it.

I don't like it mixed with anything. Just sugar and rhubarb - maybe some cinnamon. When we were kids, after a good thunderstorm (while in season) we'd rush out in the back and eat rhubarb sticks, salted, fresh from the garden. Love the stuff. I can't eat it raw like that anymore, but we used to love it that way. Of course, we also swam in a river that was only about 68 degrees and would turn blue. Kids seem to just do things no matter what!

Dianne

But there's rhubarb and there's rhubarb! Rhubarb grows like a weed hereabouts but tastes quite disgusting unless mixed with pounds of sugar. Back in Yorkshire we grew some "champagne rhubarb" - small delicate stems that needed no sugar and were quite delicious.

Champagne rhubarb tastes nice in a pie with a few dates added. Personally I like made into a rhubarb fool. Shirley

Definitely!!!!

Joan

Rhubarb is the same here. I wonder if your "champagne rhubarb" is the same as our strawberry rhubarb? Stems are smaller and redder, iirc. My mom says the strawberry rhubarb is sweeter but I've never tried it.

Joan

Cheryl Isaak ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Well I don't know. A friend who has lovely rhubarb has a cakey thing she makes with it, even on a diet I will not forgo a slice of that. I think I should ask her for the recipe for Dora, in return for the cheesecake one - said cheesecake had rave reviews today - it is great!

Thanks Dora - you could not have mentioned it at a better time. I will get the rhubarb recipe for you.

lucretia borgia wrote: >

Oh thank you Sheena. Rhubarb and cake is yummy. I was going to make something along that line instead of the cheesecake, but I couldn't find a recipe I liked. I'm also thinking I should make some jam or jelly this weekend.

IME People who don't like rhubarb often didn't grow up with it. It was the only fruit around most of the time when I was growing up, and we used to eat it raw, even the skinny really sour stuff.

Glad your friends liked the cheesecake. I've been thinking I should have held back a couple more pieces for myself, but I really don't need something like that lurking around in my fridge, waiting for an opportunity to leap on my butt. Eating all the deep fried pork triangles was bad enough.

Dora

IME People who don't like rhubarb often didn't grow up with it. It was the only fruit around most of the time when I was growing up, and we used to eat it raw, even the skinny really sour stuff.

I'm one for the "other side" I grew up with it, served hot, served cold, hidden in cakes and jams all manner of food was tainted with it, I hated it then, and nothing on the face of the earth could persuade me to put it in my mouth now. (same goes for broadbeans, runner beans and a small selection of other culinary mysteries my poor mother inflicted on us under the heading of nutrition)

Joanne in Western Australia

I'm with Joanne. I grew up with it and tried weeding it along with the weeds when I was growing up. Worked great till Mom caught me. I haven't found a way to like it, and doubt I ever will.

-Margaret

And a rhubarb fool is?????? (assuming it's not a person who goes crazy over rhubarb.)

George

That does sound good.

I wish my library would carry Cook's Illustrated, because as much as I love reading it, I rarely cook anything out of it.( though the mushroom lasagna sounds delish) because I have a troop of wacky eaters. (between the "I don't like that¹s" and the "that's not good for you's", I am amazed they eat anything at all.)

Cheryl

An excelent site for some different rhubarb recipes is

chef2chef is an extremely fattening site. Their database has about 1/2 million recipes in it. For fun try doing a search on your favorite ingredient (like chocolate) George

Try some nutmeg or allspice!

I did that too! Including the swimming in water I would put my pinky toe in now!

Cheryl

Not sure about North America but here in the UK "fools" are old-fashioned desserts consisting of whipped cream folded into fruit puree; the result has the texture of mousse. I suspect that such things are now frowned upon by nutritionists who exist on a diet of dried figs, prunes and boiled water.

I never really hated any food as a kid except squash and lima beans. I'd hold my nose and swallow both, but that was just to save time. I'd have to eat them or risk a sore bottom and then eat them. But, my grandfather had me eating lima beans raw and fresh picked (like still in the field). And would tell my grandmother "Mother, young Cheryl has had her limas today". I won't eat them now on a bet unless some one has put them in succotash - the kind with lots of corn, onions and peppers. And butter, lots of butter. And maybe some onions - just so I don't taste those mealy things!

Squash (butternut, yellow, Walthams, winter, what ever you call it) I hated until I was about 20 and someone made it with maple syrup, nutmeg and sherry (and a little butter) and pureed it. No stringiness at all. Heaven. I got bold enough to try every variety of "winter" squash and love them all now!

Cheryl

Don't forget those figs and prunes have to been grown organically and pollinated by free range bees......

Cheryl