Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
More food: Blueberry-Rhubarb Crisp
AKA Rhuberry Crisp. Adapted from About.com’s Southern Food section’s rhubarb crisp recipe.
Ingredients:
* 1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 3/4 cup quick cooking rolled oats
* 1/2 cup melted butter
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* 3 cups blueberries
* 2 cups sliced rhubarb
* 1 cup granulated sugar
* 2 tablespoons cornstarch
* 1 cup water
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
The problem with blueberry crisp is that it’s too overwhelmingly sweet. The problem with rhubarb crisp is that it’s too damned sour. The combination works as well as chocolate and peanut butter . . . hey, I wonder if anyone’s ever done anything with that idea?
Here’s what you do: preheat the oven to 350F, then
1. Combine the brown sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon, and melted butter, and mix well with a fork. Take half of this mixture and use it to make a bottom crust in an eight-inch-square baking dish.
2. Combine the water, corn starch, and white sugar in a sauce pot and whisk well. Cook over medium-high heat until thickened and nearly clear. Stir in the vanilla. Alternatively, you can mix the vanilla in with the remaining oat/flour mixture. Doesn’t seem to matter.
3. Put the mixed fruits over the bottom crust, then pour the corn starch/water/sugar/vanilla mixture evenly over the fruit. Finally, layer the rest of the oat/flour/butter/brown sugar mixture evenly over the top.
4. Bake for 55 minutes. Let it cool until it is warm, not hot, and serve with vanilla ice cream. Or not. Tastes great either way!
And now the recipe becomes eternal, at least until the next hack.
D.
All these recipes are making me *droooool*. I love sweet potatoes and yams, too, so I think we may need to try some of those recipes out. And the ham you mentioned (with Coke and brown sugar) — any rough idea on proportions of those ingredients? I’d like to try that one — it sounds deeee-lish!
ps. Can you tell the complete techno-n00b here how one goes about getting the little avatar picture that goes alongside the comments? I know just enough computer-related stuff to be dangerous. 😛
Kris, what you want is a gravatar.
As for the ham, all I did was put a small ham into my crockpot. I dusted on about a tablespoon of hot yellow mustard (the powder) and then poured on about 2/3 a can of Coke (not diet). I cooked it on low heat for about five hours, which was a little too long — it fell off the bone.
I prefer to roast my ham, but that takes a long time and it heats up the house way too much. When I roast my ham, I don’t dress it up with anything. Ham is fine as is.
That Coke recipe is ancient American cooking . . . probably as old as Coke itself!
Apple-rhubarb and strawberry-rhubarb are delicious combinations as well.