Cooking a Rhubarb Pie... with Honey Swamps!

The other day I felt like making a pie and I thought why don't I take pictures and post a how to/recipe on this blog?
Obviously, I had to pick a little assistant model for my photos and my choice was Honey ^__^

So today's recipe is for a rhubarb pie a la française! That means French style haha

There's a possibility that you've never heard about this vegetable though, apparently it is rare to find in some parts of Europe
and America... but it's always worth it to try new things! Especially veggies and fruits :-)

So, what is rhubarb? It's a vegetable that looks a bit like celery (I don't think you can it eat raw though).
We cook the stalk in pies with sugar, a lot of sugar, because its taste is kind of very sour/tarty.
You can also make jam/marmalade with rhubarb, I never tried but it sounds good :-P

If you've never seen rhubarb then this is what it looks like.

Thanks for showing us Honey :-)

Here's a picture of the ingredients for our French Style Rhubarb Pie:

List of Ingredients:

600g / 21oz Rhubarb

1 Pie Dough (the type I like best is puff pastry but you can also use shortcrust)

170g / 6oz Sugar (you can add more or less depending on how sweet you like your pies)

250ml / 1 cup Cream (Crème fraîche or Half-and-Half)

2 Eggs

and last but not least

Cinnamon and/or Vanilla to taste.

 ....

OK let's begin by washing (rinsing) the rhubarb with water and then we'll cut/chop it until

it looks like this (obviously, we'll discard the top leafy part of the vegetable and only use the stalk):

At this point you can pre-heat the oven at 200°C / 400°F

Now break the eggs and beat them (just like you would for an omelette) in a big bowl.

 Then we'll add the cream, sugar and some vanilla and/or cinnamon and mix everything together until the sugar melts
(you can taste the mix and add more sugar or more vanilla/cinnamon if you want).

Next we can add the rhubarb to our mix.

Put the bowl aside and prepare the pastry dough...

Lay the dough on a pie pan or an oven pan (mine is huge and it's square too!)

Don't forget to make holes in the dough with a fork.

Here I use a chick to illustrate this step xD

And now we can pour our mixture with the rhubarb onto the dough, like so:

 Move the pieces of rhubarb around until they lie uniformly flat :-)

 Also, if you like your pies to be extra pastry you can cover it with some more dough.

Finally put it in the oven (that you pre-heated at 200°C / 400°F)

and leave it there for around 40 minutes

(but I left this one a good 50 minutes until the crust was a nice golden brown):

The sun is setting and Honey is happy with her work ^__^

Here she's enjoying a BIG slice of pie with a cup of tea

Hopefully someone will like this recipe and get some ideas out of it :-)

Anyways I had fun taking the pictures and writing it down.

If you have any questions (especially about cooking) don't be shy to ask.

I'll be happy to help the kitchen noobs out there LOL

Love <3

Mariko.