Rhubarb

[lsanderson]

I wuz invited to lee_os and hunnythistle's on Friday and asked what I could bring. I went shopping the night before for something to hit me, and the only thing that jumped out was rhubarb. So, I got a bunch and a pint of whipping cream and announced I was bringing a fool. (Besides myself, for those of you who have grown confused.)

Often having been a fool, but never having made one, I invoked the great ghod Google, and came up with several recipes, the shakiest of which I followed, which included a note that it had been converted from metric but untested... There was one recipe from the BBC, that involved macadamia nuts and all sorts of other things... The one I followed had orange juice and rind, but I subed some OJ & Grand Marnier. I cooked the rhubarb with some sugar, OJ & GM, then tossed in a bit of vanilla at the end. I whipped the cream with sugar and GM between courses, and folded in the rhubarb, and stacked it up in pilsner glasses. I thought it quite fine. Now if only I had grown the rhubarb.

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Our rhubarb patch is available. Isn't it getting a bit late in the season? I haven't tended to it well this year, so I'm sure it has gone to seed (literally and figuratively).

[carbonel]

I made a kiwi fool once. The recipe said that gooseberry was traditional, but kiwi could be substituted. Given the relative price difference between kiwi and gooseberries, that was an easy decision. The only difficulty was peeling all those kiwifruit.

It was attractive (and tasted good), though the bright green was a bit startling.