greens

[asakiyume]

A guy I follow on Twitter is doing a couple of polls about greens (the things you eat, not the members of the political party... I mean if you're a cannibal that distinction might not be valid but I suspect for most of you it is, plus--no capitalization!)

Here is a link.

For those of you as click-averse as I am, there are two groups of greens:

First group:

chard
collards
kale
spinach

Second group:

beet greens
cress
mustard greens
turnip greens

You have to choose your favorite for cooking in each group. (You can go vote if you want--it will add a new dimension to his polling base.)

So .... do you all have favorites? Opinions? Beloved recipes? I cook spinach, kale, and beet greens; I have cooked mustard greens now and then, and sometimes chard. I did not know you could *eat* turnip greens--it's an exciting new piece of information.

Comments

[amaebi]

Group 1: All but collards, though I should confess that I don't wet-cook kale. Second group: All of them, but I don't apply heat to cress.

There is at least one turnip-- Tokyo Cross-- which is intended primarily as a source of turnip greens. But since I love its dear little pearly turnip part I grow them for that as well.

[asakiyume]

When you say you don't wet-cook kale, what does that mean? Does frying count as wet cooking?

Re turnips: gotta love a plant you can eat all of!

Tangentially related: and then there are the plants where you can eat them in one form or another, but not both. When I grew more things, I liked growing snow peas--for the pea pods. But my Cambodian neighbor likes eating the tendrils and blossoms ... I mean I suppose if you didn't eat **all** the tendrils and blossoms, you could then eat some snow pea pods later. Kind of like waiting to eat the leaves of your turnips until you're ready also to harvest the root.

[amaebi]

Well, I really meant that I have not liked kale stewed with pork and/or pork fat. Myself, I make kale chips and use young kale in salads.

I love both snow peas and pea shoots. *swoon*

[asakiyume]

I like kale chips! A friend showed me how to make them--easy and tasty.