Note: If you're using 'old-fashioned' rhubarb with greenish stalks, add several drops of food coloring. If you're using Canadian Red rhubarb, there's no need for food coloring.

Make pie crust (see below) and bake bottom shell at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

While pie shell is baking, put rhubarb, 1 3/4 cups sugar and 2 tablespoons of water into a saucepan and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from burner.

Mix 1/4 cup sugar with 3 tablespoons cornstarch and stir into hot rhubarb mixture. Add milk (cream or Half & Half). Cook until thick.

Do you make same mistake with your husband or Dad? Do you tend to interact with him only when you need money? Has he become nothing but a “wallet” to you?

This Fathers Day, make time to improve your relationship and show him that you love him for all that he means to you, whether he’s your Dad or father of your children.

It’s too easy to fall into narrow roles in a family, and Dad certainly can add to impression that he’s only there as a meal ticket. But with a little bit of effort, you can change this around. He may type of father who generously gives to his family, but he still needs your acknowledgement that you care about him and who he is aside from being your father or husband.

Dads are foundation of a family, but can wind up feeling like a door mat instead.

Use Fathers Day as a kickoff for celebrating him, and follow up frequently with small expressions of appreciation. Dad will be so surprised to be seen in a new light and know that when you approach him with a smile, it’s not only for a handout.

Fathers Day gift ideas for wives

Show your husband (and your family) how much you care about Dad as a man and not only as father of your children. You’re both so busy shuffling work and family life, you may have let “man and wife” part fall too low on radar screen.