Cooking with rhubarb can involve more than just hitting the stalks with a blizzard of sugar. For this simple dessert, rhubarb gets to hang with port, vanilla beans, and peppercorns, too, then joins some homemade ricotta and walnut crumble in the bowl. Get the recipe.
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