Here's the menu:
Southern Inspired Sunday Lunch
Onion Soup and fresh rolls
(special request from my husband)
Cajun spiced salmon
Vegetarian Dirty Rice
Succotash
(No Lima beans here so had to substitute other beans from the larder)
Cauliflower and garden greens cheese
Green bean & tomato salad
Green salad
My simply excellent rhubarb dessert
(recipe to follow)
My simply excellent rhubarb dessert
I started off with the intention of making a crumble but ran out of time, so this improvisation worked a treat and was a hugely popular, and tasty, success!
10 stalks of rhubarb, cleaned, chopped in to 1 cm pieces
8 tbsp brown sugar
4 tbsp water/orange juice
10-12 digestive biscuits, crushed roughly (would've used Ginger Nuts if i had them)
2 oz butter
3-4 squares good quality plain chocolate, with orange pieces and/or nuts if you can find it
3-4 tbsp ground hazelnuts (I suspect walnuts would be good too or indeed any nut chopped or ground would be fine)
Put the rhubarb in a roasting dish, sprinkle over the sugar and water/orange juice and roast until tender - roughly 10 minutes in a medium oven.
Meanwhile, melt the butter in a saucepan over a low heat. Lightly toss the crushed biscuits in the butter. Use more butter if you feel the need, but I wanted to keep it light, so I was happy with this.
Spoon the biscuit mixture over the rhubarb. Chop or grate the chocolate and sprinkle over it along with the nuts.
I put it back in the oven to warm through and melt the chocolate, which was delicious, but the topping should harden a bit if allowed to cool and this could be quite nice too. I'll have to make it again to try that as the whole tray was polished off yesterday!
We ate this with spoons of whipped cream.
