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While rhubarb recipes are traditionally sweet or revolving around dessert, we decided to try taking rhubarb into the savory realm. Rhubarb adds a fun flavor to this healthy soup that can easily be made into a vegan meal (just switch vegetable stock for chicken stock). It is quick and easy to make and incredibly affordable, especially if you have any home grown garden produce. Scroll down for a printable recipe. Steps: Put all ingredients minus spices into stock pot. Simmer for 15 minutes.  Add spices. Simmer additional 5-10 minutes. Eat and Enjoy! Embed

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Rhubarb can be so versatile, but most people get stuck at rhubarb pie or rhubarb crisp. Today we are exploring a new dessert with a slightly more savory twist. These rhubarb breadstick twists are great standalones or even better with the cream cheese & strawberry rhubarb compote dip. Watch along as we make this breadstick alternative or get a printable recipe below.  Printable to letter size paper  Embed

Strawberry rhubarb pie is a well known dessert than is a favorite of many. While we could stick to the basics of only pie for rhubarb, we wanted to branch out and find many more fun and tasty recipes that we could use our rhubarb in because really, how much pie can you eat?  Maybe that's not the right question... I love pie, could probably eat it every day. So this is just another great recipe you can add to your pie rotation and a fun twist on a baking classic.  Printable to letter size paper

Springtime brings fresh produce in abundance. Rhubarb has a great and unique taste which often times leads people to believe it has few uses. Today we are making a rhubarb cheesecake, just one of the many delicious recipes using this colorful plant.

Here we are in the middle of May. For many in the upper Midwest, you may not have even planted your garden yet. This won't stop your perennial plants from sprouting though. If you're like us, you might even be ready to start your first harvest on the early growers. Our rhubarb came up in full force and when we went out to thin out the rhubarb, we noticed it was already going to seed. For those of you who have never grown rhubarb before, this flower can look especially alien. You might be thinking to yourself, "What do I do with this weird seed thing?" or "Do I need to let rhubarb go to seed?". Seeing rhubarb flowers is also disappointing, especially if you were hoping to harvest throughout the summer. Who only wants one rhubarb pie each year? Not me! Luckily, there's a way we can keep getting rhubarb even if the plant begins producing seeds. We going to run  through a few tips on how to keep your plant producing all summer as well as the bes...