Finally...Rhubarb!!!
I picked my first bunch of rhubarb yesterday. Oh, the joys of the first harvest and the hope that it gives of more to come. I have to admit I am in love with rhubarb, not just for culinary purposes, but I am in love with the plant itself. How can you not love a plant that is as old as dirt itself, that has leaves wider than my whole body, and glorious thick stained red stalks shooting up from the ground? I love this plant! It is the first to poke through the ground in the spring; it gives me hope that winter WILL (one day) end!!! I needed rhubarb this Spring; Winter is still threatening, snowing in the canyons and higher elevations. I kind of stick out my tongue at Old Man Winter as I slice those thick tangy stalks off the plant! Rhubarb is a very ancient member of the buckwheat family and is a perennial, which means plant it once and it comes back year after year. It has been documented in ancient China for medicinal uses as far...