Two weeks ago, on a gusty, chilly day, I found rhubarb at Kingma Market on Plainfield Avenue NE. Fresh, crisp stalks with a lovely ruby red color -- one of the stars of spring's first garden pickings.

Long stalks of pale red rhubarb start making an appearance at farmers markets and on grocery store shelves as the weather warms in early spring. The tart vegetable (yes, rhubarb is a vegetable) is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Most people I know buy jam when they want jam. This makes sense in the winter, when fresh peaches, cherries and berries are in short supply, and when jam is ...

Making your own strawberry rhubarb jam allows you to enjoy the season’s best produce picks for months to come. All you need is 4 ingredients to whip together this sweet-tart spread that goes well on ...

First published Tuesday, March 26, 2002, in our now-defunct Ask-it Basket column: Dear Ask-it: This is for B.H. of Rochester, who requested a recipe for strawberry, rhubarb and pineapple jam. I have ...

One evening, I went out to the garden to cut some rhubarb. It was dusk and rainy, the mosquitoes out in full force, but I was determined. I took my Felco pruners, and I clipped stalk after stalk, ...

This is a very simple recipe yet it yields a beautiful, rich red jelly that is very versatile in its use. Use fresh, seasonal rhubarb and make sure that you don't cook it for too long. The fruit is ...

It’s hard not to want to dig into a cookbook titled Jam On that features jam after beautiful jam from beginning to end. Jam On has fast become my favorite canning-focused resource. In the book, Laena ...

Makes 4 (1 pint) jars. Note: From "Food in Jars," by Marisa McClellan. • 8 c. chopped rhubarb (about 3 lb.) Prepare a boiling water bath and 4 regular-mouth pint jars. Place the lids in a small ...

Rhubarb — the rare gem of an early spring garden. As we slide into summer, rhubarb is still being harvested in the Pacific Northwest. Rhubarb is a unique-tasting and hearty vegetable. Though classed ...

New York might have better appetizers and San Francisco better main courses, but no city beats Los Angeles for dessert. Nowhere else has the raw fixings, the right kind of hedonists or the critical ...