Rhubarb
/There’s this legend about my dad pulling a rhubarb heist back in his day! Story goes he snuck through the back yards of his hometown snatching up all the rhubarb from discarded patches. In the still of the night he managed to fill his little pick-up truck full of rhubarb. Nobodie’s mom or grandma was none the wiser, until a couple nights later when a sweet treat of rhubarb bread showed up on their doorstep. This is what rhubarb is to me, it’s a little sour but spirited sweetness of homemade goodness that is simply meant to be shared!
For the most part rhubarb is used for sweets and baked goods! There’s also a lot of fabulous ways to make beverages with rhubarb infusions. Recipes for rhubarb simple syrups or bitters for soda or cocktail purposes are abundant. Surprisingly there are a handful of savory ways to use rhubarb as a dressing, in summer salsas, in rice pilafs, as BBQ sauces, or as fixings to go with salmon or chicken! By far the simplest way to enjoy rhubarb is fresh or dried with mint as refreshing tea!
The mother load of baller rhubarb recipes!
Savory rhubarb recipes
