rhubarb…

smells a little bit like body odor. it’s not me! well, it is my hands, but i just finished cutting up rhubarb for this shortbread dessert i’m making for a picnic today. the rhubarb is from the backyard, a place that tends to produce bitter veggies, so i hope it doesn’t taste like body odor too.

a lifetime ago when i was 12 or 13, my little sister and i traveled with my grandparents for a month or so. we ended up in michigan, and i remember “helping” my grandmother make strawberry-rhubarb preserves. i mainly remember snarfing a good bit of it on saltine (or was it keebler club?) crackers. i don’t remember, however, the rhubarb smelling like body odor.