Eat your greens---amazing greens

[Starbuck]

Swiss chard is so good for you - and absolutely yummy. Not to mention, extremely beautiful.

Dang, that picture looks like something out of the Willie Wonka movie, or something. Plastic food.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Dang, that picture looks like something out of the Willie Wonka movie, or something. Plastic food.

My mom used to raise it in her little garden. I don't remember it looking like that. It looked like really dark spinach. We used to eat it all the time as kids. I don't remember particularly liking it, but maybe it was my mom's cooking. :D

[Novaheart]

Anyone do juicing with veggies?

I don't know why, but I suspect that kale juice would taste like pond scum and look very similar to it in the process.

[Novaheart]

My mom used to raise it in her little garden. I don't remember it looking like that. It looked like really dark spinach. We used to eat it all the time as kids. I don't remember particularly liking it, but maybe it was my mom's cooking. :D

I think kale lasts forever in the fridge too. I don't recall it ever getting slimy or needing to be thrown away.

[Elspeth]

I don't know why, but I suspect that kale juice would taste like pond scum and look very similar to it in the process.

That sounds yummy....

:eek:

[Elspeth]

No, but I drink my daily can of V-8 low sodium for 2 extra servings of veggies a day. Do you do it?

Sadly, no. I am terribly remiss, although I eat salads.

I was asking because a friend of mine was interested in this program:

www.gerson.org

[fettpett]

My mom used to raise it in her little garden. I don't remember it looking like that. It looked like really dark spinach. We used to eat it all the time as kids. I don't remember particularly liking it, but maybe it was my mom's cooking. :D

Your mom grew typical collards, what she posted was rainbow collards.

[linda22003]

Swiss chard is hardly "plastic food", and yes, it does come in quite a color variety. (I like the kind with red veins in green leaves). It's related to beet greens, and just as nutritious. They are NOT collards, which are related to cabbage and broccoli. Totally different plant.

SLW, your mother probably cooked greens too long; most of our mothers did that with most vegetables. I dice the Swiss chard and saute it lightly with garlic, in olive oil; it's wonderful as a bedding for roasted fish, and looks lovely on the plate.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Swiss chard is hardly "plastic food", and yes, it does come in quite a color variety. (I like the kind with red veins in green leaves). It's related to beet greens, and just as nutritious. They are NOT collards, which are related to cabbage and broccoli. Totally different plant.

SLW, your mother probably cooked greens too long; most of our mothers did that with most vegetables. I dice the Swiss chard and saute it lightly with garlic, in olive oil; it's wonderful as a bedding for roasted fish, and looks lovely on the plate.

You're probably right. She did grow that Swiss chard, not spinach, but she cooked everything too long. Her meat tasted like hockey pucks. A little garlic and olive oil will make almost anything taste good---well, maybe not kale. :D

[fettpett]

Swiss chard is hardly "plastic food", and yes, it does come in quite a color variety. (I like the kind with red veins in green leaves). It's related to beet greens, and just as nutritious. They are NOT collards, which are related to cabbage and broccoli. Totally different plant.

yeah, I meant swiss chard