Chard "Bright Lights"

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Re: Chard "Bright Lights"
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2011, 14:02 »
That sounds lovely mum, I'm growing it for the first time too and I would tend to cook it as you have suggested there, but with garlic too....

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Re: Chard "Bright Lights"
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2011, 22:52 »
I repotted the chard and pak choi today and having been heavy-handed again with the seed I had a bowl of sprouts left.
Both were lovely raw but the chard was really strong for such skinny little bits!
It's got me on the sprout thing now....where's that packet of peas......?
(Sorry DD I know you think eating pea sprouts is sacrilegious!!!)

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Re: Chard "Bright Lights"
« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2011, 06:35 »
It's got me on the sprout thing now....where's that packet of peas......?
(Sorry DD I know you think eating pea sprouts is sacrilegious!!!)

Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Chard "Bright Lights"
« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2011, 07:19 »
It's got me on the sprout thing now....where's that packet of peas......?
(Sorry DD I know you think eating pea sprouts is sacrilegious!!!)



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The cheapest (and possibly less traumatic for DD) way to get pea shoots is to use boxes of dried marrowfat peas from the supermarket, rather than your seed packets.

I grow chard every year - usually a spring crop and an autumn crop.  It's dead easy and doesn't seem to get the pest problems that brassicas and other greens do.  I think the red stemmed ones are the strongest tasting, with pink and yellow being milder and white the mildest.


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Re: Chard "Bright Lights"
« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2011, 14:59 »
We strip leaf-from-stalk between thumb-and-forefinger (as described) and steam or stir fry.

We stand the stalks in an Asparagus steamer to cook them - usually for a different meal, as they will keep in the fridge, whereas having ripped the leaves off they probably won't keep for long :)



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