I just love spinach! I think I watched too much Popeye as a kid 🤣
I love chard too actually I grow it more than spinach as its kind of tradition here. Beautiful plants, they look healthy and yummy.
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I just love spinach! I think I watched too much Popeye as a kid 🤣
I love chard too actually I grow it more than spinach as its kind of tradition here. Beautiful plants, they look healthy and yummy.
Interesting, how is it tradition there? In food or as an ornamental plant?
Me too, the popeye reference! But I never liked it. Only when I started growing my own food have I started to like it. There is some psychological "click" or mind shift that happens when you grow your own food.
As food in Mediterranean recipes, usually just steamed with addition of garlic and olive oil. Of course it would be used in soups, mixed with boiled potatoes or mushrooms and nuts. It would be also prepared like spinach, as a puree.
Actually most of the people here are growing it instead of spinach as it grows well and it's really beneficial. It's also good for freezer storing. It's resistant to low temperatures so it's the first vegetable we can harvest in early spring (if we plant it early of course).
Yeah, the taste is authentic and I guess some needs time to get it... When you grow your own, everything tastes so much better! 😌
That is so interesing! Sounds almost like amaranth (African spinach variety we call it sometimes, or Marog) here in South Africa, as it grows abundantly. It is interesting how cultures adopt certain foods.
And we can say it again! Homemade and homegrown just tastes better.
Wait a moment, isn't amaranth this flashy red flower full of seeds?
I know seeds can be used as food, but how is it associated with spinach?
There are many types of amaranth plants. Some are used for the seeds, some are used for their leaves. I love to cook the leaves. Here is a post I did recently: https://hive.blog/hive-141827/@fermentedphil/african-spinach-or-morogo-a
Oh yes I remember your post now!
Somehow I didn't connect it to the plant I know. This is very helpful! I got another perspective of it now. I think amaranth is a beautiful plant and I have a wish to grow it on my garden for sometime. I got very encouraged now, to try it in spring. ☺️
You must! Try and see if you have a local variety that does well. They are always the best. These two varieties I grow do so well they come back every year and produce so much seed and leaves for me.