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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: nitiram on November 21, 2005, 15:13

Title: Ruby Chard
Post by: nitiram on November 21, 2005, 15:13

Has anyone any idea what to do with a bumper crop of Ruby Chard? First time we have grown it and are finding it tastes a bit too 'earthy' even when incorporated into pasta, and other dishes..(vegetarian options only!)

Title: Ruby Chard
Post by: kooringa on November 21, 2005, 16:21

I love swiss chard and use it in salads, steam it like spinach, stir fry it, add it to stews and casseroles, and the chickens like it too.

If it is a bit earthy maybe the plant is a bit big, so it might be better not to eat the stalks, or just the thinner part of them.

Title: ruby chard
Post by: nitiram on November 22, 2005, 06:37

The plants have got rather large! First time I have grown it and it has thrived...and how. the more I picke the more it grows. It seems to freeze well too so am stock piling it as well as eating it. We have been leaving the stalks but i don't mind them, my husband hates them.