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[pensnest]

I harvested rhubarb today for the first time since we moved here. Last year my lovingly transported plant went in to a spot that didn't prove at all fertile, but I moved it in anticipation of builders, and put it somewhere it likes much more. So the rhubarb pieces are softened on the stove with a little sugar and a tin of broken mandarins in syrup, a combination which seems to work very well. We shall eat it with condensed milk tomorrow. Om nom.

And my apple trees are heavy with apples! It is Most Exciting.

Comments

[turps]

Your own apples to pick. That is exciting!

[pensnest]

It is! I suspect all the trees will produce the same kind, but it will still be interesting to find out what they taste like.

[spikedluv]

Rhubarb, yay! I love me a good strawberry rhubarb pie (with ice cream, natch). My dad used to eat something similar to what you've made, also over ice cream, which sounds a lot like eating it with condensed milk.

Also, yay for apples! A couple of years ago we had such an apple crop in this area, like we hadn't seen since we moved here. I posted photos of the branches nearly touching the ground because they were so full of apples.

[pensnest]

We've certainly had plenty of rain so far this year to keep everything happily watered. The apple trees may also be benefiting from not having a leaking swimming pool next to them, so that the water they get is not full of chemicals.

Rhubarb is a shocking price at the supermarket. It's very gratifying to be able to grow our own.

(I see my psychic Random Icon generator is at work again: Pooh is a great one for condensed milk.)

[turlough]

I love rhubarb! When I visited one of my aunts last week she'd made rhubarb crumble. It was so good.

Apples, yay!

[pensnest]

We don't usually have enough rhubarb for more than one dessert at a time, so we tend to have it 'neat' with condensed milk, but I'm very partial to a tart, if I can be bothered with pastry.

[ephemera]

Mmmm - rhubarb and apples sound delicious!