Adventures in Cooking

[cactuswatcher]

Yesterday I had a craving for rhubarb. I haven't had home cooked rhubarb in many years. I've only rarely had store bought rhubarb pie. Well, store bought rhubarb pies aren't very good anyway. At any rate for the first time since ann1962 posted her rhubarb crisp recipe at ATPocooks, I noticed my local produce store actually had some rhubarb. The rhubarb was expensive. So I decided to make the recipe with half rhubarb and half strawberries, which were very cheap.

Other than getting some oatmeal, I had the other ingredients even in my meager kitchen. I chopped the rhubarb and to get similar sized pieces I quartered the strawberries.

There were no problems till the baking began. The strawberries were much juicier than rhubarb. That caused the crisp topping to be a failure. It tasted fine in the end, but it was clear after only half the reasonable baking time that the topping was going to sink into the juice and never turn golden brown as the recipe promised. So without the visual indicator of when the dish would be done, I made a quick trip to cookbook-land to figure out how long it needed to bake.

I finished baking, pulled it out and let it cool till it was just warm. Although it didn't look like Ann's golden-brown rhubarb dish, it was a success! It looks okay, and though it's in no way crisp, it tastes very good.

So, thank you, Ann, for the recipe! (further comments on the results are over at ATPocooks.)

Comments

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that it turned into a kind of pudding too; I'm sure it was tasty.
I just made a rhubarb crisp last night, using rhubarb I picked from the plant I put in Sue's garden out at the farm. I tried to grow it in a planter, but it didn't like it, so I took it out to the farm. It's flourishing now. Have you ever seen the roots on rhubarb? They're like logs!

[ann1962]

They are like carrot logs!! LOL, as I found out as I removed some of ours for a friend. Tough stuff!

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

All I know is that I was taught as a child never to think about eating either the root or the leaves!

I told Ann before, that my mother made great rhubarb pie.