Rhubarb Pie

Rhubarb is a strange thing, for one, raw it's very sour and not all that tasty, for another it's leaves are poisonous, and lastly it really doesn't look like something you should eat. At what point did someone say "I think I'll eat that, it looks like something I should put in my mouth."? OK maybe there wasn't anything else to eat so it was survival of the fittest with only rhubarb and an everlasting supply of sugar to make it palatable. I guess it doesn't really matter how it was first discovered the point is that it was and it's tasty.

Rhubarb seems to be an important part of my family. Our favorite way to prepare it is in a pie, my wife would say it's sack religious to add strawberries to said pie, which is an American tradition, nope we like our pie straight up, rhubarb, sugar and nothing else. We had rhubarb pie at our wedding, we played "Rhubarb pie" by John Fogerty at the procession, and as we speak I'm watching my lovely wife make crust for a rhubarb pie made from rhubarb I just picked from my parents garden.

Your probably thinking I'm going to give you a recipe for rhubarb pie, truth is I don't have a recipe, I don't even help make it and I'm pretty sure my wife just has it in her head somewhere. Truth is thinking about rhubarb pie prompts me to reflect back on my life, I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately. Thursday I quit my job, or I should say I put my two weeks in, anyway I've given the city all I could muster and with a lot of planning and reflecting I determined that it was time. So I guess I now know what I don't want to do but the age old question still remains, what now? Most would say the future is so bright I gotta wear shades, I tend to agree, but the future is also uncertain which scares me a little. Some people have been very supportive of my decision, others have though I am crazy quiting a stable job in what can only be described as the worst economic crisis of our time. I say if not now when?

So I might be blogging again since I will have time, I think it would be cool to write about my experiences going through my quarter life crisis, I'll probably have recipes too, but we'll see. Life is going to be crazy for a while, I'm actually really excited, I think this could be a very positive experience.