What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

The only way I eat it is with a crazy amount of garlic. I assume you have recipes that make it taste better. I was fooled by Luke from MIgardener saying you can eat it like celery. That was a mistake.

I put greens in lentil soup and frittatas. I chop and sauté the stems before I add them.

Chard stems do NOT equal celery.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Mixed with lots of other greens in salad, yum. Cooked, drained and wrung out, then topped with garlic powder, seasoned salt, olive oil and a little apple cider vinegar. Also minced and added to soups, can't taste it at all but the nutrients are there. Have also tried using the stems like celery in my potato salad, that was a big no!

Hadn’t thought of cooking swiss chard, I was just using it for salad greens (and I can’t remember the stems, so I must have cut those out and put them back in the garden to compost). It did way better for me than kale, and wasn’t as bitter.

 

[Sally PB]

I tried chard raw... eh... not a fan. Ok, but a bit bitter and ... chewy. Someone suggested I try it sauteed and that was a game changer!

Same thing with beet greens.

 

[MROO]

When I found out how much more nutrients chard has over spinach, I threw my spinach seeds out! I can keep chard growing through all 4 seasons usually, this year excessively cold so lost it outside, but it grows indoors too. Have 2 growing in 2 gal. pots under grow lights and pull off leaves as needed. (kale too) I think I want to expand my winter indoor growing room, also known as my guest room. Hmmm, have company or healthy easy to harvest food all winter? What to do?! Bye bye company! Lol

I would still show up... with a bottle of salad dressing tucked into my spare socks!

 

[MROO]

I tried chard raw... eh... not a fan. Ok, but a bit bitter and ... chewy. Someone suggested I try it sauteed and that was a game changer!

Same thing with beet greens.

Beet greens never go to waste, here! I saute with a little butter or olive oil and salt and they simply disappear!

 

[dirkandlorie]

Hadn’t thought of cooking swiss chard, I was just using it for salad greens (and I can’t remember the stems, so I must have cut those out and put them back in the garden to compost). It did way better for me than kale, and wasn’t as bitter.

Even cooked, I don't like the stems. Afraid to feed them to the chickens because they're so stringy, possible crop issues, so compost pile it is.

 

[jerryse]

Beet greens never go to waste, here! I saute with a little butter or olive oil and salt and they simply disappear!

Chard AKA silver beet. So yes beet greens are good.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Chard AKA silver beet. So yes beet greens are good.

I know right? Same family, but yet on the CDC score on nutritious greens Chard scores an 89, and beet greens only an 87. Weird! If anyone wanted to know what was the number one nutritious green, it was Chinese cabbage.

 

[jxp]

But you have to eat Chard... To get the benefits. .

I eat chard with chicken.
---Wait. Strike that.---
I feed the chard to my chickens!
They'll eat it but they prefer lettuce and spinach, or even kale.

 

[WthrLady]

Mine won't TOUCH spinach, kale, cabbage, head lettuce, chard, or mustard greens. And they hike their skirts up and run away from wooly bears and tomato worms.