#Swiss Chard

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Swiss Chard, Leek, Potato, and Sausage Soup

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 19 October 2024

This cultivar of Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla var. flavescens (Swiss chard) had dramatic red stems. This group of cultivated beets can produce an edible crop all year round and are known for their resistance to bolting (running to flower and seed). These plants were being grown on a ‘hugelkultur’ (hill culture) which is a no-dig raised bed filled with biomass (wood, leaves, cardboard and other compost) and finished with soil. This feature holds moisture, builds fertility and maximises the surface area.

Jill Raggett

[vegan-nom-noms]

Quick One Pot Udon Noodles With Gingered Veggies And Tofu

[fcukfodmap]

Instant Pot Low-FODMAP Gluten-free Wild Rice & Coconut Soup

I'm from Minnesota and reside in wild rice country, so I've cooked a lot of wild rice over the years. It all tends to be pretty hotdishy though: lots of mushroom casseroles, the ubiquitous wild rice soup, etc. So when I ran across this recipe which put together coconut and wild rice, I was like, this is happening. It ended up really good, made excellent leftovers, and my mom even asked for the recipe, which is super unusual. Without further preamble:

Instant Pot Low-FODMAP Gluten-free Wild Rice & Coconut Soup

8 oz Swiss chard, stems chopped fine, leaves cut into 1 1/2 in pieces

2 tbsp grated fresh ginger

1 serrano chile, stemmed, seeded, and minced

1 tbsp tomato paste

2 tsp turmeric

1 1/2 tsp garam masala

1/4 tsp cayenne

4 c vegetable broth

2 14-oz cans of coconut milk

1 c wild rice

1 tomato, chopped

1/4 c fresh cilantro, chopped

lime wedges

vegetable oil, salt, pepper

Heat 2 tbsp oil in Instant Pot until shimmering, then add the chard stems and cook until softened. Add ginger, diced chile, tomato paste, turmeric, garam masala, cayenne, and 1 tsp salt and cook for 30 sec or so to bloom. Stir in broth and one of the cans of coconut milk. Lock lid in place and pressure cook on the highest setting for 30 minutes.* Turn off Instant Pot and quick release the pressure.

Turn the saute function on, stir in second can of coconut milk and chard leaves, and cook until the chard wilts, about 5 minutes. Turn off heat. Stir in the tomato and cilantro and season with salt and pepper. Serve with lime wedges.

*An aside on wild rice. Wild rice is harvested from lakes and parched so that it can be stored. The parching process can result in considerable variation in how pliant or dry the rice ends up. I had a batch that was extremely hard, so I added another 10 minutes to the pressure-cooking time. The rice should fluff out when it's tender enough to eat, kind of like the way popcorn fluffs out of the dry popcorn kernel. (Wild rice and corn are closely related plants.) Do not use either quick-cooking or precooked rice in this recipe.

The one ingredient which might give you FODMAP trouble is the broth. Most commercially made broths have onions and/or celery in them, which is verboten. I tend to feel pretty YOLO about broth because it's mostly salt and water. Which, coincidentally, could be what you substitute for the broth if you don't want to risk it.

I haven't really cooked with serrano peppers before, and I wasn't over-wowed by its inclusion here. Honestly, I couldn't taste it. If I had to do again, I'd use a jalapeno or two instead. Even said, this was pretty great, and I'll be making this again for sure.

Disclaimer: I am no dietician. I'm doing my best to minimize FODMAPs in my diet, but it's possible for me to be misinformed or mistaken about various ingredients.

[morethansalad]

Green Vegan Salad (Gluten-Free)

[kairich295]

Rainbow Swiss Chard

[soilthesimpletruth]

Seriously enjoying autumn.

[inthecityofgoodabode]

September 2024: The Days Leading To Our Nineteenth Anniversary

Wednesday harvest:

We cleared out the summer vegetables to make room for the cool season vegetables:

If no one else does, he wants to hear what is on your mind:

We're still working on this bed but the goal is pollinator magnet:

It came in the mail:

Anniversary flowers:

Sunday harvest:

Cool season plantings.

Kale:

Cabbage:

Swiss chard, brussels sprouts, bush beans, broccoli & cauliflower:

Spinach:

Swiss chard & peas:

Anniversary day dinner:

Lost soul:

We trekked over to Arkansas to check out a lake at a wildlife refuge. The road to the lake was out so no photos of the lake but have these photos of crossing the Mississippi River back into Tennessee:

Tuesday back at the house:

My queen working magic:

Tuesday on the grill:

Tuesday dinner:

[kuebikome]

Starting my garden

[balkanradfem]

First decent harvests this year! Asparagus is coming out every single day so I am eating it constantly. I also have some swiss chard, green onions and young garlic. I've been harvesting leek for a while as well! It didn't make it into the pictures.

[tomorrowsgardennc]

it is time... i'm pulling the last of the walking egyptian onions. these didn't produce any bulb seeds, so into my tummy they go.

so i was just gonna put onions back into this bed, but tbh the bed is too short for my back for the onions to be in. so i decided about 40 minutes ago to prep the bed for the first round of swiss chard.

so i layed down a burlap sack - i wanted to use landscaping fabric, but then realized this does the job just fine and i have about 80 of them taking up space. then i cut out holes and places only the yellow rooted swiss chard seeds into some holes in the burlap. these will be grown just for seed. maybe some produce... but definitely seed.

never grown swiss chard before, soooooo hoPE I DID IT RIGHT 🙃🙃🙃

[mostlythemarsh]

Swiss Chard

[sapphicnunnery]

google lied. they’re different YALL SEND HELP I JUST LEARNED THAT RHUBARB IS LITERALLY JUST CHARD WITH A RED STEM

THERES LITERALLY NO OTHER DIFFERENCE

THIS IS AN EARTH SHATTERING DISCOVERY AND MY LIFE IS A LIE

[morethansalad]

Blood Orange, Rainbow Chard, and Wild Rice Salad (Vegan)

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

Dunkin Donuts purchased the rights to the song Me and Bobby McGee to advertise their fall flavors and came up with the theme Good enough for Dunkin / and Bobby McPumpkin.

Michael Jordan once bet four and a half million dollars on what he thought would be the opening song at a 1992 Mandy Moore concert.

Known to the press as "The Iron Lady", Margaret Thatcher was known to her friends as "Punchbowl Peggy".

George Eliot planned on writing a sequel called The Tobacconist on the Tay.

A Swiss delegate to the United Nations once asked the General Assembly "after all we did for chocolate and cheese, why did you stick us with Swiss chard?"

[foxsoulcourt]

sliding into winter, part 2