Ah, but back to my rhubarb plant for a minute. Those luscious looking leaves are poisonous, but the tart red stalks make tasty pies and a rhubarb sauce on vanilla ice cream is scrumptious. They are those though who refuse to go near a dish with rhubarb in it. The rhubarb belongs to the Rheum genus and grows from rhizomes. Could we get any more R's than this out of one image?! Well, let's see: it has grown for centuries in Russia near the Volga River. But the Chinese have used it for thousands of years; it is mentioned in an herb-root compilation from around 2700 BCE. Check out this excellent Wikipedia article.
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Love rhubarb!! craving some rhubarb pie to go with my coffee, mmmhhh!!
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ReplyDeleteThis reminds «Louis» of the time he tried to make a rhubarb pie. It was his first attempt at doing so and he failed to account for how much rhubarb cooks down. The result was more like a rhubarb pop tart than pie!
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I like rhubarb, although during the last few years I've only ever had it from the jar (we hardly do cans of veggies in the Netherlands).
ReplyDeleteReally Rockin' Rhubarb Reminiscence!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, my mom told us the leaves were poisonous so of course, being kids we dared each other to eat them to find out. We all ate some and none of us got sick.
Man, kids do stupid things!
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Troy
Never been fond of the rhubarb. But I like your photo!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't touch it as a child. Haven't tried it as an adult. Will have to change that this summer.
ReplyDeletestrawberry rhubarb pie w vanilla ice cream - thank you very much!
ReplyDeleteROCK and/or Roll, as the Simpsons' minister once said.
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