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whitefish tacos with rhubarb salsa
Sometimes I have good ideas. This is not one of them. It is a good idea — it’s a fantastically brilliant idea, really, but I can’t claim it. This recipe is a gift from the Google gods. I wanted to do something savory with rhubarb for a change, and a chef friend had recently mentioned […]
June 2, 2011 | Categories: fish & shellfish, fruits & vegetables | Tags: dinner, fish tacos, great lakes whitefish, lake michigan whitefish, lake whitefish, rhubarb, salsa, spring, tacos | 157 Comments
rhubarb, rosemary & gin
For much of my life, the approach of summer signalled a season of blissful slackness — a languid three-month-long stretch free of responsibilities and obligations and schedules. Then I became a grown-up, a grown-up with year-round responsibilities and obligations and schedules that, because I live in a resort town, seem to multiply rather than diminish as […]
May 23, 2011 | Categories: cocktails | Tags: cocktail, gin, rhubarb, rosemary, spring | 7 Comments
rhubarb collins
My to-do list is kicking my ass. And not in the normal boy, am I busy way, either; it’s kicking my ass in more of a it’s 10:00 — do you mind if we just have pickles for dinner? way. My point here is that it’s been a busy week — the sort of week […]
June 14, 2009 | Categories: cocktails, fruits & vegetables | Tags: cocktail, rhubarb, spring | 12 Comments
rhubarb stir cake
On an unusually warm afternoon in the summer of 1980, my sister and I wandered into a little thicket of shade created by enormous ruffly leaves curving out from bright red stalks just tall enough for little girls to play beneath. Elated at such a discovery, we raced home to collect our buckets and shovels […]
June 8, 2009 | Categories: baked goods, fruits & vegetables | Tags: baking, cake, rhubarb, spring | 9 Comments
rhubarb blueberry hand pies
I live in the sort of place where a casual mention of your fondness for rhubarb is likely to land you in somebody’s brother-in-law’s mother’s field with an armload of rhubarb stalks and an abiding gratitude for midwestern neighborliness, which is how I came to have several quarts of diced rhubarb in my freezer. Naturally, […]
October 5, 2008 | Categories: baked goods | Tags: blueberries, hand pies, pie, rhubarb | 9 Comments
When Harry Met Salad 