Don Ray

#Gardening #Rhubarb #Iowa

First harvest of rhubarb! This perennial is a standard plant in midwestern gardens. I typically cook it and add enough sugar to make a tangy-sweet sauce to put on cereal or eat with yogurt. (I like rhubarb pie, but I leave the baking to the experts 🙂)

Apr 28 at 3:29pmWeb
Show threadLa Loica1d ago
@donray amado Ruibarbo, nose si sabias pero en la Patagonia sobre todo en Punta Arenas fue introducida por la migración europea hace mas de 100 años, el sabor del ruibarbo es un recuerdo de mi bis abuela que hacia mermelada y pasteles. (Perdón por responder en español no se ingles)
Show threadDon Ray1d ago

@laloica

Español funciona bien para mí! Lo domino bastante bien, y aprecio la oportunidad de practicarlo.

No sabía lo de Patagonia pero tiene sentido. El Ruibarbo es una planta que aguanta bastante frío.

Para mí es una de las primeras cosas que puedo recoger del huerto en la primavera.

Show threadAmber Or Bust1d ago
@donray lovely! rhubarb crumble is much easier to make than rhubarb pie and imho even more delicious! (Must be served hot, with custard, of course.)
Show threadDon Ray1d ago

@masp

Good idea! That’s the way my mom usually served rhubarb. I could probably make a crumble.

Show threadAmber Or Bust1d ago
@donray mine too, and that’s absolutely where I’m coming from :)
Show threadstfn1d ago
@donray I love rhubarb, my grandma used to make a killer rhubarb pie <3
Show threadDon Ray1d ago

@stfn

It is delicious I know an expert. I give her a bunch of rhubarb, and she returns some of it in the form of a pie.

Show threadstfn1d ago
@donray that is an extremely high ROI :)
Show threadDon Ray1d ago

@stfn

It almost seems like a scam 🙂

Show threadTransition Town Telford1d ago

@donray

Rhubarb is very popular in the UK, indeed we have a 'Rhubarb Triangle' a 9-square-mile (23 km⁲) area of West Yorkshire, England
Its a very versatile crop
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/rhubarb

Rhubarb recipes

We've got easy rhubarb recipes for all you fans of the gloriously pink, utterly British, rhubarb. Perfect in a classic rhubarb fool or a comforting rhubarb crumble, it's also delicious for dinner with fresh mackerel or roast pork.

BBC Food
Show threadLumiWorx1d ago

@donray ... Picking rhubarb with my grandmother is my earliest memory at around 2 1/2 y/o. It is still one of the most vivid memories I have, and not just the experience itself, but the adjacent smell of cooking the stalks and the pies as they cooled, to the taste of the first bite after my tiny warm slice was set in front of me.

Thank you for sparking those 70+ year old memories back to full color and for reminding me of the woman who made me who I am.

Show threadDon Ray1d ago

@lumiworx

You are very welcome. That’s a heartwarming memory, and I hope you still get to eat rhubarb pie once in a while.