Five of my favorite rhubarb recipes, from pickles to a piquant cocktail- plus a bonus use (poptarts!) for my favorite rhubarb jam
Rhubarb
Quick Pickled Rhubarb and Pickled Celery Salad with fennel seeds and goat cheese
So simple, so delicious. Crisp and salty sweet with just a hint of fennel.
The recipe below is for the pickled rhubarb and pickled celery with fennel. The salad is just those plus a little goat cheese for contrast. Use the pickled rhubarb and celery in salads like this or with lettuce if you insist.
Sweet and Tart Rhubarb Crumble
If you don’t like your rhubarb adulterated by other fruit this is the dessert for you. A tart tangy rhubarb filling still hot from the oven topped with a dead simple and marvelously crispy buttery crumble topping. Add a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and the trifecta is complete. want a little […]
Rhubarb Cream Scones with fresh grapefruit glaze
Tiny tart flecks of garden fresh rhubarb macerated overnight and baked into easy food processor cream scones baked to golden brown and topped with a quick pink grapefruit glaze. What to do when the rhubarb arrives? Just a few short weeks ago I actually purchased Rhubarb at the farmers’ market and the rhubarb gods said […]
Not too sweet Rhubarb Refrigerator Jam
A rhubarb jam where rhubarb is the star. With half the sugar of the recipe that inspired it this not too sweet rhubarb refrigerator jam is addictive on toast or waffles and is the perfect filling for pop tarts or a slab pie. You would think by now I would learn to always write things […]
Rhubarb Pop Tarts with a cardamom glaze: ravioli style
Jam packed with fruit and flavor- I was delighted to “have” to test this recipe more than once. The first batch was just the right amount of tender and perfectly balanced between rhubarb, pastry, and sweet cardamom glaze, in short, amazing, once I finally got it together, but handling the dough, measuring out rectangles, […]
Cast Iron Rhubarb Upside Down Cake with fresh strawberries
Summer snuck up on me. The long hot days, fruit ripe and heavy on the vine, roses in full bloom- all clues I missed. Graduation ceremonies, squirrels doing mad dashes and dances on branches dappled green and shadowed, the sun high in the sky, the hum of air-conditioners, and the intermittent buzz of sirens. My […]
The Piquant: a Rhubarb Gin Cocktail with black pepper and grapefruit
The Piquant: a Rhubarb Gin Cocktail with black pepper and grapefruit I spent weeks at the tail end of last summer trying to come up with a homemade ‘tonic’ but was never satisfied with the results. After reading of inadvertent quinine overdoses I attempted a formula using other bitter roots ultimately deciding to leave it […]
