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Some of you “long time” friends might remember my post this summer about making Pizza with my friend “Jane”. Well, we decided to invite Jane and Marty over for dinner this weekend. I thought I’d start with my Roasted Asparagus Tart, followed by Paper-Bag Trout, Halibut and Salmon parcels, Mercato West’s buffalo mozzarella with Roma tomatoes, and these luscious cumin roasted carrots from my beautiful friend spree.
I still had to find the perfect dessert. Many of you know I have rhubarb on my mind and was thinking of remaking my Rhubarb Strawberry Crisp or revisiting my RudeBarb Rhubarb Compote (boy was I cranky that day)! But fate intervened, there was a recipe from Tartlette in my Inbox, and it was decided! I would reconstruct her recipe and make these wee Grand Marnier laced Petite Strawberry Rhubarb Crisps instead…
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- zest from 1 lemon
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground cardamom
- pinch of salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- juice of one lemon
- 4 cups chopped rhubarb
- 2 cups chopped strawberries
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons Grand Marnier
- Ice Cream to serve.
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Lightly butter the inside of 6-8 oven proof cups and place them on a baking sheet lined with non-stick aluminum foil.
- First make the topping. In a medium bowl, stir together sugar, flour, oats, brown sugar, lemon zest, cardamom and salt. Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter until completely blended.
- Then make the fruit filling. In a large bowl, blend together the sugar and lemon juice. Then add the chopped rhubarb and strawberries, stirring to coat. Mix in the cornstarch and stir to thoroughly mix again. Finally, sprinkle over the Grand Marnier and stir to mix all of the ingredients together.
- Divide the fruit mixture in between the prepared cups.
- Divide the oatmeal crisp topping overtop of each cup of fruit.
- Place the cups on the foil covered baking sheet.
- Bake for about 35 to 40 minutes, until the filling is bubbly and the topping is browned. Allow to cool slightly then top with a scoop of ice cream.
Thank You.
You’re so welcome:)
Love these little beauties…and love the mini bakers. Creuset? I just did rhubarb with blackberry. I’ve had one a day for 3 days. My compromise for not eating cupcakes!
Yum! I think these are much healthier, right??
It’s rhubarb time again! 🙂 Yummy!
Hahaha.. just can’t get enough.. it just feels like spring then:)
Yay!!
Smidge, your loose verse “poem” that opens this post is beautiful! I’ll read it again as soon as I finish here. I love the sounds of your menu!! Such lucky friends to share the table with you! And your rhubarb crisp is a color riot in a pot and I’ll be making it this week! And maybe the week after too, since I’m all for repeating something so gorgeously good!! (Funny, we just repeated those cumin roasted carrots again last night.) xoxox! spree
Seredipity! I love those carrots! xoxo
Spree.. I don’t even think of these little “musings” as poem, but think it’s lovely that their perceived as such:) Thank you xoxoxo
They look so pretty and yummy and I adore those pots!
They were fun.. I felt like bright colors today!
What a delightfully wonderful post. 🙂 I feel all inspired to eat now…
Than eat you should:) xoxo
I made your (although slightly modified) recipe for Rice Krispy Treats with chopped up dried cranberries (and/or cherries) with sugar-free marshmallows. Yummy.
What beautiful, vivid color, Smidge! And you are so right in all the ways you say — good is worthy of repeating again and again. I would eat that crisp for breakfast. And then again for dessert.
Sometimes repeating feels like I’m stuck in a rut.. But with blogging I feel like some recipes don’t get a good second chance:)
They look delicious….I also love to constantly update and revise my recipes..I made eggplant parm for my family this wknd but grilled my portion since I’m watching my weight…almost as good…:)
That sounds sooo good.. I’ll have to head over to your blog to take a peak:)
My Pete would LOVE this!
🙂 Mandy
Thanks, Mandy:)
Such a beautiful text, many parts echoed really deep inside me….
I only cooked with rhubarb once, these crisps look so appetizing, maybe even my beloved, the anti-rhubarb guy would fall for them 😉
Hahaha.. you might have to substitute the rhubarb, perhaps a little apple?? for your beloved.. xo
I sure that your friends were thrilled with the meal from beginning to end.
I’ve discovered it’s so much nicer having only one other couple.. Less hectic and you really get the chance to catch up. And if you’re behind, they just jump in to help!
I am seriously craving some Rhubarb now. Great post and beautiful pictures.
I am seriously craving “real” rhubarb.. Do you have any??
Your poem beatifully expressed, I loved it. And your recipe… Oh my dear I can eat all of them… they seem so delicious and I can’t think anyone who can refuse this. But dear Barbara your cups (or bowl) are so beautiful too… Colourful… Thank you have a nice day, with my love, nia
Thank you so much, nia, I hope you had a wonderful day as well!! Xoxo Smidge
Your poem is making me think long and hard about the things that used to make me happy, the little things that really mattered at some point in my life. I fear I’ve become too busy in every day life to think about them much anymore…. I’m moving way to fast right now, and really needed this reminder to slow down and simplify.
Which would give me so much more time for new things to love, right? Like those rhubarb crisps! They’re beautiful, and now, thanks to you and your rhubarb muffins, I LOVE rhubarb. 🙂 So I will be making those crisps too. In fact, the entire menu sounds incredible!
Thank you so much for this Smidge….you are one incredible girl…
xoxo
It’s easy for all of us to get caught up in that lifestyle.. I usually get knocked out with a cold or something like that and it forces me to take it easy. Better to remember with a few words from each other:) xxoo and thank you!!
Oh my gosh! These would be perfect for my newly acquired baking dishes. They’re not as deep but will serve the purpose. I love the pictures and how they make my mouth water. You never do anything halfway. These are pretty amazing. 🙂
I made more than the four.. I used various sizes of weck I had around. It was good to offer smaller for anyone wanting to watch their, um, diet (lol, no one took the small one!)
Looks delicious! I bet the aroma is amazing!
They did smell wonderful baking…
What a lovely idea for a spring dessert. And the presentation is beautiful. My daughter gave me a set of the little Le Creuset pots with lids and they would be perfect for this dessert. Your poetry was just the thing to read while I’m home for lunch, a reminder of the importance of cherishing what’s special.
I’m sure these are the same.. Or are yours metal? Mine were just glass, so not very expensive. What a lovely gift from your daughter!! I’m glad you enjoyed my poem/rambling words today:)
My pots are the same as the green and purple ones in your photos, except I have a set of four different colours – yellow, green, red and blue. My daughter is so thoughtful in her gift selections; I just love these. I keep them on a window sill in the kitchen and they look lovely.
What beautiful words, Barb. Lovely thoughts and a special way for me to begin my week. I have several occasions coming up that are beginning to “stress me out” and I need to remember that they are all connected to people and times I really at heart do cherish. You have a graciousness in your hospitality that I’m sure puts all at ease. Thank you for the “print a copy” button…That is so helpful, and with this recipe, I’ve already pushed “print”–it’s a must. Debra
Debra, I think we all get caught up in that stress.. I hope you can let some of that go.. Even for just this week:) Spend some time on yourself, I think! I hope you enjoy this recipe. When I’m stressed I gather all the ingredients, put on some great tunes and get into a “zone”.. It’s kind of like cooking yoga, lol!
RHUBARBTASTIC!
Hahaha.. Now I can’t believe that wasn’t my nickname in school as well!!
I agree! This is wonderful. I often like to revisit and improve recipes I made when my blog first started… they were fairly awful in comparison to what I do now and I want to remove the shame 😀
Hahaha.. It’s sooo true.. I went back to look at my old crumble and found horrid orange-tinted photos.. But I guess..it’s good to see where we’ve come from? Well, maybe not!
Every time I come by to visit you blog, I leave hungry…Yum!
Ooops.. Sorry;)
Do you know how I’ve longed for those little Le Creuset dishes? In purple nonetheless…my color of choice. Your rhubarb crisps look DIVINE. Oh so perfect. My mouth is watering and my eyes are nearly teared with joy…and sorrow for not having one in front of me!
Well.. If you lived next door I’d loan them to you:) or gift you some!! I’m not sure they’re Le Creuset, because they’re glass, not metal?? Anyway, the colors are fun!!
I need to talk my neighbors into sharing their rhubarb – so many great recipes from you over the last couple days!
Oh, no… You’re supposed to climb the fence and sneak some!!
Oh my goodness, these look amazing. I love the quote, definitely one of my life motto’s!
It’s a good motto to have:) Thanks so much!!
Oh my!
Love
your blog Smidge
The most colourful
creative food blog
I know xx
You’re sooo sweet 🙂 Thank you!!! xoxo
What beautiful photos! Thanks – now I’m going to have to make crisp!
It’s so easy and great to inhale when it’s baking:)
I really enjoy how your posts unfold, Barb, and this one is as fine as any. Well there is one little flaw but I won’t let interfere with my enjoyment of this wonderful post. Besides, if anything could entice me to try rhubarb again, it would be one of your crisps. They look fantastic!
Hahaha, you got me for a second, I thought, oops did I type out the wrong measurement? Yes.. If you were my neighbor, I’d be bringing you dish after dish to try to convince you otherwise;)
Love your words 🙂 We used to eat lots of rhubarb but have eased off in recent years, those pots do look pretty though, tempting !
Perhaps you have another recipe for me to bake in these??
What gorgeous little pots Smidge. I love individual desserts but I don’t always have the little individual containers you need to make them. I think your rhubarb crumble must have been super delicious with the strawberries and lemon added. I’d like to give this a try but I’ll probably have to make one large dish! xx
I think next time.. one large dish and I’d have one large spoon.. and go hide somewhere;)
Divine darling, absolutely divine, if you invited me for that dinner i would die of excitement. People don’t invite people for dinner in these parts, I think it is because they don’t drink wine! Plato was a clever chappy.. I am supposed to be making a chicken and apricot pie for dinner, i had better get busy!! c
Oh, c.. That sounds like they’re are just no fun at all! No wine, you say!! Blasphemy! I would have you over and pour copious glasses full.. Til you had to fall asleep in the spare room… And then I’d have to get up and help you feed all your little animals. Ok.. On second thought, a wee bit of wine;) I’ll be waiting to see your chicken and apricot pie on your blog!! xoxo
This post was awesome my friend! Not only did you tease my tastebuds as you always do but your poem really spoke to me today 🙂
Too inspiring!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks so much.. I’m happy to see you back on-line as well! Good luck with school!!
Good old Plato – how wise he was. I love your repeating ‘r’ in your evocative poem. I am also liking a lot the pretty mini green dishes.
Yes.. How did he know so much anyway?? And back then, before the internet;)
I see we’ve had similar thoughts about crisps and flavorings. Yours sound delightful, as do some of your revisited recipes…some of which I must visit for the first time. That asparagus tart is calling my name. 🙂
I just love that tart… My guest didn’t like Asparagus, lol, so I told him he could pick them out.. Much laughter there!!
These look gooey good and wonderful! And I am all for revisiting good things. x
Yes.. Gooey and bubbling over, just the way I like them:)
Good old Plato – he was so wise. I love the repeating ‘r’ in your evocative poem. I am also liking a lot your pretty mini green dishes.
I just love words.. I’m glad you enjoyed it today!!
Yum, I love crisps made with oats and brown sugar and fruit — one of my favorite desserts.
I bet you do an awesome version of one! I’ll be watching for your painting of it!!
Just lovely, as always! Makes me rue digging up the monstrous rhubarb beasty plants that were taking over a corner of our yard years ago 🙁 Thanks for the feast…for eyes, tastebuds, and soul!
They can grow massive.. My husband used to go “bushwhacking” but one year.. There was nothing left!! I coulda’… well, you know…
How lovely Smidge! Your poetry, your wonderful dinner for your guests and these comforting warm crisps for dessert! How lucky your guests were!!
Thanks so much:) We’re lucky to have them for friends!!!
Wow, those look amazing! Definitely worth repeating.
I wonder which of your recipes you like to repeat???
Just look at those strawberry rhubarb crisps. I can’t stop staring at them. Barbara.. you are certainly an amazing baking extraordinaire 🙂
Well.. it’s amazing what cameras can do.. now if I could figure out how to take better photos of people.. I’m going to have to work on that one!!
These little pots are to die for! I want one now!
I think I like anything that is small like that.. I have miniature skillets I will have to use soon… Thanks, Assia!
Oh, that surely brings back memories Smidge and yes, I love those things as well. 🙂
Wow! Jane and Marty sure are lucky! Hmmmm…can I move in next door to you? LOL!
Those Ruhubarb Crisps sure looks delicious! The minute my Rhubard is big enough to harvest I am going to try it for sure! Thanks for sharing sweetie. Awesome photo’s as usual! 🙂
*big hugs*
Hahaha.. The house next door is for sale!! Wouldn’t that be fun, lol.. In fact a compound of food bloggers.. Oh, there I go getting carried away again.. Thanks, Sonel!! *hugs* back:)
Whahahaha! Oh, it’s good to dream sweetie and wouldn’t that be fun for sure, but do know this…I won’t bake..I will just eat and roll out of your house other day..hee hee.
*hugs*
I heart this and I really have to try rhubarb soon 🙂
Thanks Tandy <3
Oh Smidgen! How I would love to eat at your house … if all menus are that mouthwatering 🙂 I can bring the wine 😉
Oh.. Just bring yourself, we have lots of wine;)
Lovely, as always! <3
“silly patterns that revert us back
to our childish
ways”
…my favourite.
What gorgeous presentation, Barbara, I particularly love the first shot with the glass ramekins, just beautiful. My husband love ruhbarb, although I am not so much as fan, hense I haven’t had it or made it in years! Hope you have a wonderful day.
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Wow, this sounds wonderful especially that touch of Grand Marnier! I always love a bit of spirit in my dessert. 😉
Yum. They look simply delicious. And, I wouldn’t mind a slice of that pizza either.
Lovely recipe and even lovelier photos as usual! I have never cooked with rhubarb before, but I will definitely give this recipe a try!
I have a dear friend who lives abroad, when she comes for a visit our best pass time is to go for a walk in our old neighbourhood. When we were kids we would spend hours walking and talking and we like to relive the memories 🙂
I loved your opening and if we got ruhbab here but if we did, I would make these immediately
Beautiful!!!
You post are always gorgeous…
And it’s rhubarb time…. Keep it coming gal!!
What a fabulous dinner you treated your guests to and an amazing dessert! Can we come over for dinner? LOL. This looks so good. And I loved the opening of this post. It made me smile and gave me a new perspective on a few things this morning. Thanks Smidge!
If they are petite that means we can have more than one, right? What lucky guests to be served such a lovely meal and reminisce about the good old times. I think the cardamon and the Grand Mariner sound like a very lovely addition to this recipe. Take Care, BAM
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Barb, I’m admiring your little dishes — they are so perfect for these little crumbles. After reading your last few posts, I have a definite craving for strawberry-rhubarb…which I’m going to have to take care of very soon! Hope you are having a great evening!
LOVE your post, and I started seeing rhubarb recipes all over the blog.. which means I need to start baking w/ them soon! I love how dainty your cups are… and the pastel green is so perfect for spring! Have a great week Barb!!
Love how the poetic musings lead to the table!
printing this one, too!!
deeelicious! But how cute are those little dishes… with lids and all!
Terrific, mouth watering blog! Love your poem…cheers!
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