Bon Appétit lists strawberry rhubarb pie

Bon Appétit’s April 2026 popularity list paired a classic spring dessert, BA’s Best Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie, with a fast weeknight dish, Gochujang Chicken Stir-Fry. (ca.style.yahoo.com) The roundup, credited to Nina Moskowitz and published April 28, 2026, said the month’s most-read recipes included “strawberry-rhubarb pie” and “gochujang chicken stir-fry.” (ca.style.yahoo.com) Bon Appétit’s strawberry-rhubarb pie recipe uses 1¼ pounds of rhubarb, 1 pound of strawberries, 5 tablespoons of cornstarch, and a deep 9-inch pie dish. A Punchfork index of the Bon Appétit recipe also notes the dough uses 1/4 cup cold vodka. (punchfork.com) The gochujang chicken stir-fry recipe calls for 1 pound of chicken breast, 12 ounces of green beans, 3 tablespoons of gochujang, 1 tablespoon of mirin, and 6 grated garlic cloves. (punchfork.com) That pairing captures two different April cooking habits: baking around spring produce and leaning on pantry sauces for fast dinners. Rhubarb is a short-season stalk that turns sharply tart on its own, while gochujang is a Korean fermented chile paste that brings heat, sweetness, and salt in one spoonful. (allrecipes.com) (punchfork.com) Bon Appétit’s list did not read like a single trend story so much as a split screen of what readers were cooking at home in late April: fruit pies, roll cakes, and spicy skillet meals. Yahoo’s syndicated version specifically surfaced Strawberry Shortcake Roll alongside the pie and stir-fry. (ca.style.yahoo.com) The strawberry-rhubarb pie entry also fits a broader spring recipe cycle across food media, where rhubarb shows up as temperatures warm and berry season starts. Allrecipes updated its own strawberry rhubarb pie recipe on January 20, 2026, and described it as a “favorite springtime dessert.” (allrecipes.com) The chicken dish sits in a parallel lane: Korean-inspired home cooking that relies on one dominant ingredient instead of a long ingredient list. Punchfork’s snapshot shows 16 ingredients total, with rice optional, which helps explain why a stir-fry like this can travel well as a weeknight recipe. (punchfork.com) Taken together, Bon Appétit’s April list landed on a simple contrast: one recipe asks readers to crimp pastry around peak-season fruit, and the other gets dinner on the table with gochujang and green beans. (ca.style.yahoo.com) (punchfork.com)