We love rhubarb around here, so why not add some more ideas to the list of possiblities of what to do with this interesting fruit. - To start with: of course rhubarb crumble, rhubarb coffee cake, rhubarb fool
- Chilled rhubarb soup (pureed, smooth, possibly with a touch of mint)
- sweet with melon for dessert
- savory with cucumber and yogurt/feta/goat cheese drizzle/topping
- Rhubarb sorbet
- Rhubarb granita
- Rhubarb salsa
- utilizing the rhubarb raw like the tomato or onion (sour, tart, fresh). Mix with grilled habanero / tomatillo peppers, add garlic, cilantro, tomato
- Rhubarb chutney
- cook the rhubarb in chunks for a couple of minutes with raisins, cinnamon sticks, ginger, onion, sugar, lemon
- Pickled rhubarb
- longer stalk pieces or coins of rhubarb, uncooked, pickled with ginger, chili pepper
- White pizza with rhubarb drizzle
- pizza without tomato sauce, with mozzarella cheese and Italian meats. Once it comes out of the oven, drizzle with a tart, fresh rhubarb sauce (raw/ slightly cooked rhubarb, touch of sugar, lemon, mint)
- Alternative vanilla pastry filled sweat wheat buns
- when making the vanilla cream, add cooked (pureed, or slightly chunky) sweeteed rhubarb. Fill buns with rhubarb vanilla pastry cream
- Rhubarb curd
- variation on lemon curd: make rhubarb curd and fill pound cakes, angel food cakes, top with whipped cream and strawberries
- Rhubarb meringue pie
- replace lemon curd in lemon meringue pie for rhubarb curd. You can also do the same with lemon tarts - make rhubarb tarts
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