Oh Heck

Roast a slab of cow
heave in a few potatoes to roast
slap a bag of peas in the microwave
then

shed the outers leaves and cut an X in the bottom of the sprouts. Totally submerge them boiling water with a quater teaspoon of salt and a heavy pinch of baking soda, keep them there till the cores are soft and the heads are what my daughter describes as ‘slimy’. Drain and use the water to make gravey. As good a sunday roast as you can get.

For extra flavour, mix up some sage and onion stuffing in the normal way, then mix that in with four times the volume of mashed potatoes. Pop this in the oven for the last half hour of the meat cooking, and leave there while you rest the beef.

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“I planted a six-pack of seedlings and now have an overabundance of sprouts. ”

Lightly steamed, lots of pepper. Can’t think of anything clever to do with them other than giving them to your neighbours.

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get a spade..and bury them..

..they are the ‘foulest’ vegetable ever..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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Got it, use silverbeet where the recipe says spinach. Same as using leeks where the recipe says onions. Which brings me to brussel sprouts. I planted a six-pack of seedlings and now have an overabundance of sprouts. 101 recipes for brussel spouts, anyone?

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I’ve got nothing against silverbeet; I steam it then sprinkle with toasted seeds, bread crumbs & a little cheese but I will swop it any day for steamed puha.
Strait from soil to pot is the secret.
Enbalmed food is the devils invention.

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Big bro! You like your greens! Respect bro, where before there was none!

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phil to the rescue, thanks.

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sapient..at whoar..in the ‘vegan stuff’ category..

..are 651 stories/links…

..you’ll find a lifetime of vegan recipies there..

http://whoar.co.nz/category/vegan-stuff/

phil(whoar.co.nz)

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No, but The New Farm Cookbook is essential for vegans or those entertaining vegans.

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on that subject, does anyone know some good sites for vegan/vegetarian meal ideas?

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Wow

read a twenty five hundred page disclaimer before they’ll sell you a big mac for the kid

Now that’s progress

I liked this thread better when I could collect recipes for when my Vegetarian Daughter visits after the Olympics. (Her restrictions are that she won’t eat anything that’s had a face – so we have to check the potatoes, etc., very carefully! Swiss Chard however does not benefit from such scrutiny.)

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As a keen believer that we are what we eat I have constantly battled with doctors and health workers about using some drugs when there were well proven dietary alternatives. When it comes to ACC or the like I have collected the pills then used the food – in case they end up telling me I have invalidated the ACC process.

I feel that nutrition is not properly taught to doctors so they do not consider it sufficiently Of course the drug companies are often funding research and education.

The trick is that it is a fairly complex area with many interactions. It is therefore important to cover food groups daily in a good mix, but for the cancer fighting etc. it is quite important to have a good selection of fresh, in season vegetables and fruit. A Japanese food awareness concept called Macrobiotics I find quite enlightening.

One of the things I have tried to explain to people regards our air pollution is the need for the body to maintain a correct ph for its effective health functioning. Pollutants are usually acidic and therefore ultimately lower our immunity response – thus the increase in cancers and other health issues as we drive everywhere and get our food days old through the shops.

A simple thing I read about Bird flu was the children dying were being attacked in the lungs by their overactivated immune to a new virus. Kelp powder has simple ingredients that help our bodies immune to recognise our own cells – it seems to me a cheap natural way to allow our children to face bugs and increasing their chances of survival with immunity. Something we may need to consider with GE being pushed by the same people who pushed tamiflu.

Maybe we should simply make all health product seller – natural or otherwise – to put out a full explanation of the natural process that their product is working with and what the natural foods are. Then they have to do proper research..

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my favourite silverbeet recipe is with feta cheese, walnuts, garlic, parsley and nutmeg, but I refuse to believe it’s a wonder food. We’re getting reports of all kinds of vegetables being wonder foods at the moment, and the claims all seem to be based on very small statistical advantages.

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I read about silverbeet as a miracle food on some yank website (they call it Swiss Chard) recently, but can’t remember the particular value of the stuff.

Oddly, it’s one of the few foods one child I know really likes.

Try it in a white sauce, or even better, in a peanut butter lasagne (make lasagne, layer lightly cooked silverbeet with lasagne sheets and a satay sauce (peanut butter, chilli, salt, sugar, oil, coconut cream, lemon juice or tamarind pulp), top with breadcrumbs and bake. You can feed vegans on it as long as you leave eggs out of the lasagne, and it’s way yummy, even though it sounds a bit weird.

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I hate brocolli!

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Edit….Dig it up.

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Kevyn

Did it up man!, sliver beet is the devils food.

Anybody who feeds that to their kids should be arrested for child abuse.

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a dob of butter on your cooked silver beet is perfectly yummy, & maybe a little garlic, pepper.
or sour cream

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Does silverbeet cure anything? Can it be made to taste nice? Why is it growing in my vege garden when I’ve never ever planted any?

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Mine only gets sprayed with whatever happens to be hanging around in the Christchurch air whenever it rains (or snows).

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