[Steveharford]

Growing chard for the first time this year. Coming on well so now, having never eaten it, wondering how to make the best of it. I am a big spinach lover but cant grow it without it bolting. My limited dishes with spinach amount to a side dish with roast or incorporated into a curry of some sort. Any favourite chard recipes out there to get the best out of what looks like a promising crop?

[Yorkie]

There's a couple here:
http://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/category/vegetable-recipes/chard-recipes/

And spinach here, for starters:
http://www.allotment-garden.org/recipe/category/vegetable-recipes/spinach-recipes/

 

[Madame Cholet]

I love it cooked with scrambled egg, in quiche and mixed with mash pot and cheese.

[mumofstig]

Chard and potatoes
http://www.italianfoodforever.com/2013/03/swiss-chard-potatoes/

you can serve this over pasta for a hearty, filling winter meal - top with a little grated cheese 

[tosca100]

It's nice used in spinach and feta pie too instead of the spinach. It has a more earthy flavour than spinach. I use it in a lot of pasta dished, shredded and added at the end of cooking as you would soft herbs. And in soup.

[Robster]

I love chard and have the same problem with spinach as you do.  I take the central rib out and wilt it, squeeze out the water and use it in loads of ways.  Curries (Saag meat) and quiches among my favourite. I recently made a torte pasquale (BBC has a good recipe)  which was gorgeous

[rowan57]

Lorra salt to combat the ?iron? which makes ones tongue feel funny.