Until yesterday, I had never even tasted rhubarb, let alone cooked with it. But there I was at Whole Foods, where they manage to make the most unlikely food look appetizing. Really, they should run a dayspa. Anyway, I brought home a few stalks and Mary and I had some fun with it.
After trimming the ends off the stalks, we sliced it up and threw it in a pot with a pint or so of beautiful strawberries, 3/4 c sugar, and 1/4 c water. After a few minutes of bubbling gently on medium heat, the inside of the rhubarb turned from green to yellow, it all thickened up, and we plopped it into some thawed puff pastry I happened to have. 25 minutes at 400F later, we had a strawberry rhubarb tart, and being great fans of tart+sweet, the John and the girls all enjoyed it.
By the way, while researching exactly what you do with rhubarb, I found out that the leaves of the rhubarb are poisonous! Mary and I would both like to know how they found out the stalks were okay....
4 comments:
I love rhubarb! My grandma used to grow it in her garden and we would pretend the leaves (they were giant) were hats! Try it on ice cream or in plain yoghurt! Yum!
Mmmm...I love rhubarb and anything strawberry rhubarb. Yum. Yum. Yum. I have no idea how they figured out that you could eat the stalk but I'm so glad someone did.
I have never had rhubarb either...I guess I'll have to check out the local market for some and whip up a tart :)
really, you had never had rhubarb until now?? it's especially great with strawberries. :)
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