There must have been a lot of people who died trying things out to eat before they figured out what was poisonous and what wasn't. We owe a big thank you to them. And Thank You too for helping to educate us about such things.
My mother loved rhubarb pie but I didn't care for it as a kid. Haven't had the chance to try it since then. I will definitely get some rhubarb if I see some at our farmers market and try your recipe! Thank you!
I guess I missed this video but it's always a treat when I run across an old one I somehow passed over. Always waiting patiently (or not so patiently, haha) on new videos from you. Blessings Ariel!
I love rhubarb crumble Ariel served with custard. When I was very small my Mum would give us a stem of rhubarb and a small bag of sugar as a treat to eat while out playing. You doped the raw rhubarb in the small amount of sugar and chewed it, the sugar always ran out before the rhubarb ever did lol xxx Rhubarb and ginger jam is nice too Ariel, my Granny used to make every jam, curd, marmalde, and chutney's imaginable xxx
I've heard from a few folks that they enjoy eating them now. And I've heard of others getting ill. So there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement about this topic. I wander if the effects vary a lot with the kind of carrots or soil? Or if it's more of an individual person reaction difference?
Hi Ariel, that sure looks like some tasty rhubarb bars you have there! A little side story about rhubarb for you; We had a big patch at the ranch that was many years older than I was. I don't remember why, but for some reason my dad wanted to move it. What we done was dig up some of the roots (crowns) in the fall and put them in a new spot. His idea was to not harvest from the new spot at all for a few years, but to pull every bit off the old place until it expired. The new place took off great, but the old one just kept coming too. Something like three years later, he ran a rototiller set to extra deep through the old patch. Boy, don't ever try that if you're trying to get rid of rhubarb -- I swear every little chopped up piece of root made a new plant, haha. After pulling all of those, we put two old sheets of 3/4" plywood over ground in that spot and a few concrete blocks on them to keep the wind from blowing them away over the winter. I'll never forget going out there in the Spring and finding both sheets, block, snow, and all, floating a foot off the ground on the thickest healthiest rhubarb patch I've ever seen. This is how we got two nice big rhubarb patches at our ranch when I was a kid.
What a great story! Tenacious rhubarb overcomes tilling, plywood, rocks, neglect and man to come back stronger than ever! Would have liked to see a picture of that! Thanks for sharing! 👍😊
If you mash up the leaves with baking soda or bacon soda depending on what part of Canada you're from, and leave them in the sun for two days, then rinse them off with water, then boil them with milk and sugar, then drain them and stuff them inside a chicken and roast the chicken with butter and wild herbs, you'll have dinner but I wouldn't eat the stuffing because it might make you sick, just throw it away or use it in an omelet with wild mushrooms or tomatoes and some fish and bacon, or spread it on toast.
Ariel tip for you to think about using with Rhubarb: As most of your rhubarb is green, try adding before cooking a Strawberry or Raspberry Jelly, which gives colour definition and adds sugar, as what you put in that mixing pot is not enough for the amount of rhubarb you have pulled and will taste really sour. Otherwise thanks for sharing - oh one more thing you could use the leaves placed in a bucket of warm water to degrade and use as an over-wash and mulch but you may have thought of that already, as I was on a phone call and simply watching you?
You certainly could. I try to avoid most refined sugars and food dyes, though I have a sweet tooth and love the taste of sugar. I really enjoy the tart flavor of rhubarb in it's own right too.
Using the leaves "as is" on the soil to mulch, the poison leaching into the soil isn't taken up into your food plants? Why didn't you use the water from the kitchen faucet? Is that bottled water you did use? Really like that blue on you and that belt is very attractive! Thanks for the recipe and all the information. Could avoid a lot of stomach distress and even deaths by sharing all this! Blessings to you and Burley! 🙏👏👍😊
Just as their plant formed the poisons from other compounds in the soil, the microbes, earthworms, etc. rapidly break them back down into the individual components. See www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/rhubarb/can-compost-rhubarb-leaves.htm for more info. All the water in my house is the same, from the same well. I just keep a dispenser on the counter so if I just need a little bit there is no need for the water pump to run. Thanks!
My grandmother used to make almost the same (she didn't use almond flour, though) rhubarb bars on the ranch. She had a Victory garden left over from WW1 ( almost a 30 year old garden by the time I was hatched) and her rhubarb was humongous! Great treat, though.
Actually, although I have been to the UK several times, I am from a ranch around Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. My grandmother swore by her Victory Garden and kept it up during, after, and between both great wars. She even had it up and running (still) during the Korean "Conflict". Thanks for your reply.
Nice & simple - with the best ingredients! The lemon will really make it perfect! Thanks for showing this! It really helps to see it done, for me to be prompted to make something I hadn't been considering. I like how you clean up as you go too. This would be a nice, healthy treat. I have 2 bags of almond flour I've been wanting to use, & enough oatmeal, so this would be something I might actually do in the next few days. I might mix the butter with 1/3 volume substituted with coconut oil though - to conserve a bit on the butter. When I substituted all coconut oil in my oatmeal cookies with raisins & walnuts - they were still very good - but spread out & were thinner, so were more crispy. Have done them !/2 'n 1/2 too. Would like this with apples, pears, or plums - whatever is in on hand / in season. Love rhubarb too, though.
Hi Good evening great dessert with cream ice cream or custard --you eat very well its great to see this ,we are still trying for a vole electric shock eradicator but as yet no luck sorry paul.
I remember when you'd gotten your new stove. It's the happiest memory of things you've added with so much you'd added through time. I remembered the time you'd added your tiny wood stove, too. It really changed the house when you did that. Many good memories of your improvements over time.
Grandma had herself a rhubarb patch and she made famous pies. That was over 60 years ago and I still remember how good they were!!! Must have been pretty good. : )
My mom had rhubarb behind the garage. She used to make rhubarb (just the rhubarb...no other fruit) cobbler. It was always so good...thanks for the childhood memories...! And thank you for the recipe...!
Hi. I love rubarb but I can't find it anywhere around here. Maybe I'll have to order it on line. Thanks for a great cooking time with you. I'm from Central Oklahoma
My Great Grandma grew rhubarb along side the tool/work shed. I would go with her to pick it when she wanted to make a pie or cobbler. She would give me a stalk to chew on raw, but it was always too bitter, I think she loved watching me make the "bitter face". I sure did love her rhubarb cobbler, good memories.
Google it: carrot tops are edible. I add some to my dog's raw chicken, grated carrot, and a little canned dog food that has lots of good supplements. He loves it! If I don't have carrot tops, I might add spinach or kale.
I did not know that about kidney beans! Good to know. Dry kidney beans are actually very easy to find where I am. I have not had the opportunity to have rhubarb since I was a kid and wouldn't eat it as it looked like celery, and thought how disgusting celery pie or jam must be. (My parents usually made us eat what was put in front of us, including liver. There were 2 maybe 3 3 exceptions and those were things we had very little of and only on rare occasions as they were normally considered expensive & non essential and most important they were things my parents loved. So all the more for them if I didn't eat it. (Mushrooms, shrimp, rhubarb are 3 I can remember.) I actually have been wanting to grow some rhubarb as I believe I would like it. Maybe next year...
The only thing I would change here is the oats I'm off all grains , doing the grain free diet now for two years and I've lost about 18kg! as a result, so it is a superb way to lose weight and keep trim ....so for bread I make my own using almonds arrowroot tapioca flax and banana flour (all organic) very low carb diet and I can highly recommend it to anyone who wants to be healthier AND lose weight , all processed foods are bad , Ariel has the right idea growing as much as possible of her own foodstuffs , looking back I now realize both of my Parents ate the wrong foods and I wish I could offer them advise now, knowing what I know diet is absolutely crucial to good health
I used to eat pizza and bread etc etc basically a lot of processed fats so i was fat-ish not really fat but overweight looking back at my videos i am overweight in them all :P if you remove grains completely and trans fats weight falls off very easily and now i do not even miss grain , i make a fantastic grain free "bread" with yeast and xantum gum, makes excellent crispy toast and one can eat as much as you like and not get fat! unrefined cane sugar is fine , good choice
I've never seen the leaves till now 🌿 ... My mother in law used to make rhubarb pie 🥧 with the leaves she grew in her garden. My husband says since it's naturally bitter a lot of sugar has to be added.
Fun fact: As I was re-reading Little House on the Prairie, Ma was making pies out of "pie plant"...curious, I googled it and found out that it was rhubarb! Love it paired with strawberries ; )
I am working on developing my rhubarb patch. This is the first year that I was able to harvest some. Mom made date squares the same way, I used to love those and now I want to try making both. I love your cooking videos!!
Hi Ariel another great cooking video and thanks for the tip bits on the different food and vegetables that can be poisonous thank you for your knowledge
Love rhubarb. I stew it in small amount of orange juice. Add grated ginger. When cooked remove from heat and add small amount of Orange marmalade. This will sweeten and thicken mixture. Serve with yogurt. Great for breakfast. Will try your recipe. Looks delicious.
This looks so good. Really like seeing you cook with almond flour. That’s my preference too. After the first time I made almond bread I was hooked! I don’t have rhubarb in my garden anymore (don’t really know what happened to it!) but will go down to the farmer’s market and try out this recipe. Thank you, Ariel!
Same! I have a bit of a gluten allergy (causes eczema on my hands) and while I can have a little bit of regular flour, I prefer to just avoid it altogether.
Tawny Parker Best to avoid it! I feel so much better now that I know what was causing problems. Now I LOVE almond bread...so easy to make and I always have an extra loaf in the freezer!
Great recipe - will have to try that as I have way too much rhubarb growing. I was really surprised by the "carrot tops are poisonous" line though. I don't believe it and there are plenty of people adding them to stock or making pesto from them.
Hmm... I'd always been told that and had heard of one fellow getting sick from them, but having just looked it up after reading your comment, it also looks like lots of people are eating them.
Hello Ariel. I don't know if anyone mentioned this but carrot tops are actually edible and are a good swap for parsley when you are short. They have a lovely green flavor (for lack of a better word) and are useful as part of stews, soups, or even salads with the younger leaves. Here's everything you could ever want to know (and much more) about carrots: www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/carrotops.html. Thank you for your really inspiring lifestyle and videos. I am green with envy my dear :)
A few people have told me that. Now I've heard stories of people being sickened by them and others enjoying them so it seems to be up for debate at the very least. How do you use them?
Hi there--I will cut them up and add them in with my carrots when steaming them---also add corn, green beans, whatever I have to make a vegetable mix--or a succotash--it's awesome! Thanks again for your videos...have a great day out there!
Did we witness you dumping good useable water down the sink lol, I didn't realize there was that many things that are edible and poisonous on the same plant. Grandma used to make strawberry and rhubarb pie I remember eating lots of it back when I was young 30 years ago.
I use arrowroot ALL the time and almond flour I'm familiar with those ingredients , I buy organic almond flakes and grind them myself, arrowroot is versatile can be used as a coating for fish , say salmon steaks before frying and of course as a thickening agent raw organic coconut sugar is also excellent along with stevia
Yum! Mom used to make a rhubarb sauce to put over vanilla ice cream tasted soooo good! Of course, like yours it had to have that hint of cinnamon. Never made rhubarb bars but I think it’s time! 😋
I've never had rhubarb cooked in any way. I grew up just breaking it off the plant and eating it raw....yummy that way too. Now I'm going to have to try it cooked.
Hi Ariel. Sorry if this question has already been asked (or if I am the only one to whom this is not obvious) but can you tell me, if I want to add strawberries, you just add them to the simmering rhubarb pot? I assume they would take less time to cook than the rhubarb, so maybe add them at the end? Thanks.
You could either add them as you describe or just layer over the crust and then pour the rhubarb mix over them as the baking will be plenty of cooking for the strawberries.
Hi Ariel. You may not see this msg but I made this today (with added fresh local strawberries) and it is delicious!! Thank you so much! And you are totally right, more fruit, more better.
I'm enjoying the cooking side of your videos very much 🍓 a nice healthy snack, yum! Thank you for the advice on the poison side of many of the different foods we consume also, some of which I wasn't aware of, wow! Thanks again Ariel, you really are a wealth of knowledge!! ✔❤🌏
Well that is what I'd always been told and heard of one guy that got sick from eating them. But after several of you asked about this, I did some research and it looks like that's a bit controversial and there are a bunch of folks eating them. So I believe I was misinformed. Sorry to have passed that on.
@@FyNyth did you graduate from UCLA film school? you seem to know a lot about this stuff and the quality is so high...and your delivery is smooth. and you don't even use a computer either?
I used to have rhubarb in my previous garden, but for some unknown reasons, it never grew and I could never have any... (I even tried to put it in different places after some years, but I guess my soil was not good for rhubarb). I should try again in my new place, because this recipe definitly looks tasty :)
New sub, just watched the 30min video by 'tiny house expedition' and I love the set up you have! This is my dream to have my own tiny house even though I currently have a 2 bedroom semi detached house here in the UK, but I feel the need to bed off grid. Paul
They seem to be smart enough to not eat rhubarb. :) The little buggers never even come above ground to grab a plant. They grab the roots and pull the whole thing underground from there. Even it it's three feet high.
When I was a little girl, we grew rhubarb in our garden. My mother used to use my father's 22 shotgun to shoot the woodchucks who loved rhubarb. It's the only time I ever saw her use a gun. Anyway, I did grow to love rhubarb pie, so thanks so much for your cool recipe. Hugs Ariel.
Ariel, The blue of your dress is really beautiful. I got a couple of rhubarb plants and have started them in the ground along with horseradish. I guess I will have to wait a few years before I will be able to harvest any. It is nice to know that you just pull the stocks off instead of cutting. I really like rhubarb and don't know why most rhubarb pies use strawberries, which I think spoils the flavor. I always learn new things from your videos and do more research into the information that you provide. I didn't think that carrot greens were poisonous and a google search on the subject showed several posts that they are ok to eat and taste like carrots. I have always seen dry kidney beans for sale in the stores but there are no warnings on the packages on how to prepare them safely. Some of the information I have found states that cooking them in a slow cooker at 80 F can be dangerous. Thank-you for another great recipe.
Hmm... I'd always been told that about carrots and had heard of one fellow getting sick from them, but having just looked it up after reading your comment, it also looks like lots of people are eating them.
Re: Poisonous Carrot Tops I'm wondering if the carrots around WWI, where the first notice of possible bad effects were noticed, were not GMO, and those who eat them now with no problems are eating GMO strains, which tend to also be grown in depleted soil and might effect the plant's ability to form the poisons of the earlier, heirloom varieties? Worth looking into.
Would your bug spray work for squash bugs and squash vine borders? Those things hit my garden like a nuke every year! Does it absorb into the plant and get into it's system? How late in the plants growth can this be used?
If u wait till rhubarb is cool before adding sugar you use a lot less for some reason adding sugar to hot fruit makes it less sweet than waitin till cool
Well that is what I'd always been told and heard of one guy that got sick from eating them. But after several of you asked about this, I did some research and it looks like that's a bit controversial and there are a bunch of folks eating them. So I believe I was misinformed. Sorry to have passed that on.
omg I was just happened to know that Rhubarb leaf is poisonous! I saw some was on sale like couple years ago but really don't know how to use so I have never try it yet. (I also cant remember if it have leave attach or not)
Thank you for all that information about garden food. Don’t rabbits eat carrot tops/leaves? Your channel is so good in so many ways. I’m really impressed with your wisdom even though you are so young. I’m assuming that you read a lot. Happy trails.
Just googled rhubarb leaves and they advise NOT putting them in the compost pile.. Cashews are also poisonous NOT COOKED , a cashew is the seed of the cashew fruit and completely grows outside the fruit, making it easy to reach. The cashew fruit is also edible cooked. And the berries that grow on Asparagus plants are very poisonous . I tasted Rhubarb pie once and hated it.
Some people do say that, but lots of others find no problem with composting them. www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/rhubarb/can-compost-rhubarb-leaves.htm
That made me miss my Granny, and yes, she used to add the rasberries. I've been meaning to ask, Ariel. All of you recipes look so good, and I know you make everything healthy, I was wondering if any of your recipes are diabetic friendly? I've just been recently diagnosed, I'm on the pills, not the needles, so I have a little more wiggle room. Also, what was it you used instead of corn starch?
I'm sorry to hear that! Arrowroot - amzn.to/2zZBTN3 . I can't say I have thought of any of the stuff I make as specifically for a diabetic diet, but from what I know, a low glycemic diet in general is helpful. So any of the stuff I make that's high in veggies should be pretty good. You also might enjoy checkout out this category of stories from other folks dealing with diabetes and some of the stuff that works well for them. www.marksdailyapple.com/success-stories/story-topics/diabetes/
Yeah that might be as close as I can think of for a comparison. I think rhubarb just has a pretty distinct flavor that's not a whole lot like anything else. But it is tart for sure.
Hey Ariel, what could be used as a substitute for oats? I have celiac and I’m learning what to do, and oats is painful for me too so I can’t have grains! Thank you❤️🌈❤️
I'm celiac as well and I found glutenfree oats in The Netherlands. They might be selling those where you live too. Brands I know of are: Provena, Leev, Amisa, Semper (my favorite), Bauckhof, and Peak's. If you can't have those you could use rice oats. I only know of one brand: De Halm
Rhubarbs killer reputation dates back to World War 1 when it’s leaves were recommended as an alternative food source and at least one death was recorded. Yikes, I’d hate to be the person that gave it to someone else to eat without knowing the ultimate consequence. My mother in law had a fence around hers when the grandkids were young.
