365 True Things: 64/Dessert

I am not a chocoholic. When it comes to dessert, my favorites are bread or rice pudding (with raisins and rum, yum); plain cheesecake; carrot cake (I love cream cheese frosting, so plenty of that); French vanilla ice cream with fresh raspberries and/or blueberries; Ben & Jerry's Vanilla Caramel Fudge and Triple Caramel Chunk; and cherry pie. My favorite of favorites, though, is rhubarb pretty-much-anything. Here's a recipe for rhubarb crisp by Mark Bittman:

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoons cold butter, cut into small pieces, plus more for greasing pan
• 2 ½ to 3 pounds rhubarb, trimmed, tough strings removed, and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces (about 5 to 6 cups)
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon orange or lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon orange or lemon zest
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon, or to taste
• Pinch salt
• ½ cup rolled oats
• ½ cup pecans

Preparation

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease an 8- or 9-inch square nonmetal baking or gratin dish with a little butter. Toss rhubarb with white sugar, orange or lemon juice and zest, and spread in baking dish.
2. Put the 6 tablespoons butter in a food processor along with brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt and pulse for about 20 or 30 seconds, until it looks like small peas and just begins to clump together. Add oats and pecans and pulse just a few times to combine.
3. Crumble the topping over the rhubarb and bake until golden and beginning to brown, 45 to 50 minutes.

See: I can do short. Short but sweet!