Mmm, that looks and sounds tasty! Now I’m hungry for rhubarb!

Mmmm, I love rhubarb!! Rhubarb cake, rhubarb pie, and my favorite is blueberry rhubarb crumble. AMAZING.

First of all, that looks delicious and I can’t wait to try it! We grew up eating rhubarb sauce (cooked with lots of sugar) as a treat at my Grandma’s so I would love to try a new way to use it.Also, I just have to chime in as a biology teacher to give a vegetable/fruit explanation, since I just was teaching this the other day! Everyone gets so confused with things like tomatoes and rhubarb, and what it comes down to is “fruit” is both a culinary AND biological term, while “vegetable” is purely culinary. In culinary terms, a vegetable is a savory type of item while fruit is sweet, in general. But biologically, a fruit is the ripened ovary of a plant, which includes not just apples & berries etc. but also peanuts, cucumbers, and even the “helicopters” from maple trees. Things we call vegetables can be fruits (like tomatoes or cucumbers), stems (like rhubarb or potatoes), roots (such as carrots) or leaves (all the lettuces).I’m not sure if anyone cares about all that, but I think it is so interesting, and it explains why it’s always confusing!

My four year old says this is ‘the best bread in the world!’ so it has become part of our breakfast rotation. We have a gluten free member in our family so I use either a GF all purpose flour or blend it with oat flour. I have also made it in to muffins to bring camping.