Tag: rhubarb

  • Aunt Moya’s Rhubarb Cake

    Aunt Moya’s Rhubarb Cake

    If you have someone you love and they say they don’t care for rhubarb, this is the gateway baked good to lure them into a lifelong affection for the ultimate pie plant. From this delicious brown-sugar and rhubarb cake, to a strawberry rhubarb pie, to rhubarb sauce on ice-cream, the path is paved with deliciousness.…

  • Spring is the Time for Babies

    We finally have some sun! It’s been a long and rainy couple of weeks, so it was delightful to wake up to sunshine this morning. Johann and I made the rounds of the farm, checking on critters and harvesting from the garden. A well-established perennial garden means you can begin harvesting in mid-May, not July.…

  • Popovers and Chicks

    My popovers didn’t “pop” but they still tasted awesome, especially with the blueberry jam that we put up last summer on it. I think next time I will use a metal pan, the silicone muffin tins didn’t work well for this! The little golden ones are Golden-Pencilled Hamburgs, and the black and white ones are…

  • Whose Mouth First Puckered?

    This photo was taken last year, but I was talking to Dad about Rhubarb yesterday and it got me thinking. Ever since I was little, I have been fascinated with wild edible foods. I learned what I could eat, what I wanted to eat (not always the same thing!) and how to safely identify those…