Best pie I've ever made

Ingredients:

one pie crust, previously made, defrosted from freezer and rolled out for bottom crust.  Butter a 9 inch pie pan and make the crust all nice and pretty.  Preheat oven to 425.

Three little bags of last year's frozen rhubarb  (a gift from JoJo Tran, Seattle, more about him later.)
One big bag of frozen organic strawberries, from summer of '09, needing to be used.
Candied ginger, cut up small, maybe 1/8 of a cup
some lemon juice
1/2 cup organic sugar, a combo of date and cane I think
4 T. flour
1/2 t. salt

Mix all that up in a bowl and let it comingle for awhile.  (Of course, a little later in the season, I'd be using fresh rhubarb and strawberries.  But believe me, this totally worked.)

Pour it into the pie crust, put a baking sheet in the bottom of the oven to catch any spills and cook for 20 minutes.

Make a crumble top by mixing up some softened butter, a cup's worth of oats, flour, quinoa flakes or whatever you've got, could just be flour, some sugar, not much, and a dash of salt.  Play with that until you've got a nice crumbly mixture.

Ok, now here's the interesting part:  I had some amazing smoothie left over with pineapple, yogourt, sour sop fruit and papaya in it.  I mixed some flour and tapioca in that, swirled it around in the blender and poured that over the pie.  You could probably do this at the beginning, and cook the pie for 30 minutes before putting on the crumble but I didn't think of it until halfway through, it worked fine.  I got it out of the oven, poured the smoothie mixture into the filling, patting it around with the spoon to even it up, and stuck it back in the oven for another 10 minutes:  30 in all.

Then I took it out:  crumbled the crumble mixture on top (I had too much mixture, have to figure out something to do with it later, maybe just add it to oatmeal for breakfast) and put it back in the oven for 12-15 minutes to brown the top.  Take out, let cool.  YuMMMM.

This was a hit over at Nick and Susie's tipi singing party last night.

JoJo Tran is a lovely young Vietnamese man who accidentally got in hot water with the Vietnamese government by showing some Navy Seals where a POW camp might possibly be, over fifteen years ago.  He fled to America, becoming an illegal immigrant in Seattle, torn away from his wonderful wife Saray and Tano, his infant son, back in Vietnam.  It took him fifteen long years to get legal.  There were no guarantees:  he became an incredible gardener:  teaching others how to garden in local pea patches, a Quaker: garnering friends who showed up to support him at his hearings and finally, with the Quakers' help and the testimony of one of the original Seals, he was granted citizenship in this country (after having been turned down numerous times and faced with possible exportation back to a government which would commit him to prison and probably execute him).  Recently, he was able to get his wife and son here as well.  I met them last week, they came for dinner at my house, the guests of my dear friend Richard, who brought them up for an American spaghetti feed and a tour of Lopez.  JoJo contributed the rhubarb for the above pie, and Saray prepared the sour sop for my smoothie, thus making this pie truly unique.

I look forward to more pie adventures with odd ingredients.  Oh, I put some currants in the crumble mixture, but I wouldn't recommend that, as they tend to burn.