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Can I Cook With My Mostly-Green Rhubarb?
Good Questions

Q: I'm growing rhubarb in my backyard and despite warnings that it's not worth harvesting the first year, mine is huge and I think I might harvest it after all. However, mine isn't completely red as...

36 Pies for Janeen and Paul: Part Two
The timeline, the spreadsheet, the recipe and the secret ingredient

In my last Weekend Meditation, I wrote about the inspiring adventure of making thirty-six pies for the wedding reception for two close friends. Inspiration is one thing, but the practical details a...

Recipe Review: Gourmet's Strawberry Dumplings

Summer fruit always leaves us with the same dilemma – we long for pies, cobblers and crumbles, but we hate to turn on the oven when we're already struggling to keep cool. Enter the stovetop fruit d...

National Food Roundup: The New Strawberries and Cream
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 6.3.09

Eating outdoors this weekend? This week's papers have lots of great ideas for fresh, seasonal cooking, with a bit of a twist. How about a strawberry tart with chocolate, mascarpone, and oatmeal crust?...

Flickr Find: Rhubarb Soda

How pretty is this rhubarb soda with raspberry and mint leaf ice cubes? What a perfect early summer treat! ...

Seasonal Yogurt Topping: Rhubarb

While perusing local markets during our recent trip to England, we were intrigued by an ingredient combination that popped up again and again: yogurt and rhubarb. From jars of rhubarb-on-the-bottom yo...

Homemade Pantry: Rhubarb Syrup

It's rhubarb season and no doubt everyone is making pie! But there's many other things you can do with rhubarb: relishes and chutneys and compotes, sauces both sweet and savory, ice cream and sorbet...

National Food Roundup: Tartines with Fromage Blanc
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 05.06.09

This week's papers are full of fresh ideas for spring and Mother's Day. Try vegetable tartines with herbed formage blanc, a bitter strawberry and rhubarb punch, or a Meyer lemon and ricotta pound cake...

Seasonal Spotlight: Rhubarb

When I was a kid growing up in Georgia, our neighbors grew rhubarb in their backyard garden. I honestly didn't know much about it as it wasn't something my mother cooked with. All I remember is her ...

Spring Dessert: Rhubart Tart with Orange Glaze

Take a look at this gorgeous tart, one more recipe from Gourmet's April 2009 issue. This tart is very, very easy. In fact, it makes use of a frozen ingredient you may unearth in your freezer during th...

From The Email: 5 Cookbooks for Gardeners, Harvesters and Lovers of Vegetables

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on May 16th. To sign up for our weekly email sign up in the column to the left or click here. This month, we've been touting garde...

From The Email: Two Fresh Dishes for Spring

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on May 8th. To sign up for our weekly email sign up in the column to the left or click here. If you're trying to eat as much from a...

San Francisco Farmer's Market Report: Ferry Plaza

We went to the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market on Saturday and summer is in full swing here in San Francisco. Berries, stone fruits, and tomatoes have arrived!...

Frying Pan Chandelier and Mixmaster Necklace
Seen, noted, and found delicious. 06.10.08

A hand-cut Mixmaster pendant and a "pandelier" - just two of the good links for today. Click through to see them all......

Weekend Recipe: Rhubarb Lavender Crumble

Rhubarb is an odd fruit. To begin with, it's actually a vegetable - a vegetable with poisonous leaves. The stalks are crisp and juicy, with a vegetal crunch rather like celery. And yet this prosaic st...

Recipe Review: Gluten-Free Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp

We flagged this recipe from the Boston Globe a few weeks ago when the weather up here was still gloomy and cold. But now that temperatures in the 60's (the 60's!!!) and farmer's markets are opening, ...

Recipe: Rhubarb Basil Cocktail

Earlier in the week, we posted some ideas for using basil in cocktails, promising to try our own interpretations over the weekend. Well, we did some experimenting, and while our first inclination wa...

Rhubarb: Sweet and Savory

Rhubarb, the naturally sour stalky vegetable, has a growing season that coincides fortuitously with that of the California strawberry season. That means that 9 times out of 10, you'll see rhubarb com...

Straight Up: Rhubarb is Springing Up in Warm-Weather Drinks

Rhubarb is one of the surest signs of spring for us, stirring up childhood memories of warm afternoons spent on the porch steps with friends, dipping the stringy pink-green stalks into little cups of ...

Recipe Review: Rhubarb Fool That's No Joke

We consider ourselves hearty dessert eaters. We rarely say, "Oh, I just want a bite of something sweet." We get seconds. But this dessert from Martha Stewart, which we featured on April Fool's Day, ...

New York in Season: Lucy's Greenmarket Report

In the winter, we don't go to the greenmarket that often. Instead, we mostly just sigh as we look at the farmer's market reports from California, and occasionally stop by for some hardy root vegetable...

Tuning In: Martha Stewart Makes Rhubarb Fool

We aren't the only ones thinking about fool, that old-fashioned, English dessert, today. We watched Martha Stewart make a rhubarb version on her show with Saturday Night Live's Seth Myers. There wer...