Remember all that garden talk last week? Mother Nature sure has been working overtime and now there are actual things that we can pull out of the ground and eat. I’ve never actually prepared rhubarb before, so the burgeoning leaves signaled a challenge for me: what to do with these strange, red shoots?
As usual, I took my inquiries over to Tastespotting. If you haven’t used it, you should. Just enter an ingredient or a recipe and gorgeous pictures and delicious recipes populate the screen. A search for “rhubarb” didn’t disappoint.
From left to right, I made lemon-infused rhubarb syrup, started the clock on a batch of rhubarb liqueur (that ain’t water, it’s vodka!), and an orange zest rhubarb compote.
The syrup and compote recipes were derived from the instructions here, and the simple (yet totally in another language) directions for the liqueur can be found here (there’s a bit of English at the bottom). As I am wont to do I totally screwed around with what actually went in to each one, because let’s face it: recipes, assembly instructions, authority figures, et. al. are totally boring.
The syrup is going to make its way in to something yummy tonight, relaxing with the peepers and the fireflies on the back porch.
What’s your favorite rhubarb recipe? Seriously, tell me! Because there’s a monster in the backyard and it needs to be eaten!
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