Rhubarb Shows Off Its Stripes

[Saviolo]

2. Love rhubarb.

I grew up with my mom making strawberry rhubarb pies and strawberry rhubarb compote from the rhubarb in our back yard and strawberries from one of those big pick-your-own strawberry field places. Just delicious. We would even take raw rhubarb and a little dish of sugar, and dip the stalks in the sugar and eat them (I guess that's where my enduring love of sour things came from).

Also, when my hubby had his restaurant, he'd make apple rhubarb compote for his pancake stacks. The really excellent bakery up the street from where we live does rhubarb danishes and rhubarb frangipane tarts.

This is making my mouth water...