Things to do with chard

[rosefox]

Our farmshare starts next Thursday (YAY!), and the farmer emailed us to tell us we'll be getting peas, lettuce, arugula, and rainbow chard. I've never cooked chard before, so this will be an adventure. Fortunately, ladyvyola just posted this luscious-looking recipe for Swiss chard with raisins and pine nuts to omnomnom. sinboy also found this amazing recipe for what seems to essentially be chard curry. The curry only uses the leaves, but that's fine; we can pickle the stems!

Can you tell I'm excited? *grin*

Comments

[sara]

Oh, I put the stems in curry, too.

But then, I'll put almost anything in a curry.

[rosefox]

So will we, but we haven't done any pickling in a while, whereas we make curry all the time. *)

[sara]

I did a nice little cucumber salad with CSA cukes earlier this week, which turned out well.

I've gotten so used to CSA chard in the last two years that I actually found myself regularly buying chard in the off-season this winter -- which I never would have believed a couple of years ago (you can chop up chard and put it in almost anything, honestly -- I could cook with it three times a week and not feel put-upon).

[loligo]

Chard frittata! Only I make it without the bacon, and with olive oil in place of the bacon fat.

[daedala]

The chard curry recipe is behind the Cook's Illustrated firewall -- I found a non-locked copy of it here!