Rhubarb Index 2017

[thoer]

Originally Posted by gbaglo

At boarding school in Kenya, I would save my pineapple chunks from dessert and ferment them in a jar in my locker.
Don't know if I ever produced alcohol because I could never get close enough to the open jar.

Wow, you musta been really bad for your parents to ship you all the way to Kenya for boarding school!

[Ron in BC]

Originally Posted by Bobbie54

I did a rhubarb crisp two weeks ago and a rhubarb custard pie for Easter. But most of that was my other friend's rhubarb, and he just came back from Palm Springs to eat his own. Mine is still working on growing long enough.

No photo, it didn't happen.

Just no justice that Baglo can grow such huge rhubarb when he doesn't even like the stuff.

Ron

[gbaglo]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

Why do you bother? You hate rhubarb. Strange that you have the talent to grow bigger than any other of us. Oh well, at least I probably got the first pie this season.

Ron

I give it away to people who like it. Jim Norman better be bringing pie pans.

[Iowa Dave]

It's not so strange, Baglo grows big pieplamt
Eric brews good beer but drink it all, he can't
Make friends with them whenever you can
This brewmaster wizard and the photographer from North Van.
Shakespeare

[ReagentGrade]

Originally Posted by Oldtimer

I know I'm going to get slammed for this lmao so here goes. I've tried rhubarb pie n not my my cup of tea so to speak. With that said bring on the Dutch oven peach �� OR Cherry cobbler topped with homemade ice- cream ( lord please help me with the bashing I'm about to receive ) lmao

Since tannin gives both rhubarb and tea much of their astringency it may be more accurate to say, "Tea is my cup of rhubarb."

As for peach or cherry cobbler, of course they're better with a big scoop of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream on them. Duhh! EVERYTHING is better with Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla!

Do I sound like a Texan or what

[ReagentGrade]

The really sad thing about living in Houston is that it's too hot for rhubarb. You can either grow it as an annual and start it from seed EACH year, or you can pay $12 a pound for it in the grocery!!!

Maybe it's time to move north!

[thoer]

Originally Posted by ReagentGrade

The really sad thing about living in Houston is that it's too hot for rhubarb. You can either grow it as an annual and start it from seed EACH year, or you can pay $12 a pound for it in the grocery!!!

Maybe it's time to move north!

Or bribe Glenn to send you his surplus... Now that could surely be one border crossing nightmare....

[wetzk]

We do not get rhubarb down here. If the heat doesn't kill it the nematodes will.
But we do grow blueberries, my shrubs in the back did well this year so..

Blueberry cobbler.

[gbaglo]

With ice cream please.

[Bobbie54]

Rhubarb was about $2.50-$3 a pound at the farmer's market today. Most of it the green tinged with red kind that ripens first. I picked a bit of my ruby red variety to cook with it and will do a crisp or something later. Yum! But I also bought a slice of rhubarb pie.

Still cold here- yesterday we hit 61, today it is only 53. But half the island turned out for the first Saturday market, it seems like, trying to pretend spring is really here!

The good part-I'm still getting asparagus.

[Steve Clark]

Originally Posted by wetzk

We do not get rhubarb down here. If the heat doesn't kill it the nematodes will.
But we do grow blueberries, my shrubs in the back did well this year so..

Blueberry cobbler.

Oh My, wetzk! That looks delicious! Do you mail order?