TS: Swiss Chard (or any chard) vs. Kale (any variety)

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The more refined swiss chard would seem to be the easy answer, but lately I've been rocking the "Russian" or "Siberian" kale. Absolutely awesome, sauteed in olive oil & garlic and maybe some tomatoes, or especially cooked in the juices of my chicken curry. What dark, leafy green does it for you???

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 1 June 2006 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

I enjoy the collard, but both kale and chard are great. Chard is certainly a little more delicate, collard is my old standby (just a little olive oil, garlic and lemon, or maybe stir-fried), and kale I prefer for soups and stews.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 1 June 2006 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

swiss chard in stir fry (where spinach is called for) is GOOD

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 1 June 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

You're all going to live to be 100 if you keep eating that stuff . . .

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 1 June 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

Tear up the kale, put on a cookie sheet with olive oil, bake at 350, check and shake every 5 minutes, add maybe some parmesan cheese after about 10, let it get nice and crispy. So good!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

i love curly kale. usually steamed, with some kind of miso or tahini/lemon/ginger/whatever dressing. i may have to try baking it next though, that sounds great!

― bell labs (bell_labs), Thursday, 1 June 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

Deep-fried chiffonade of chard is excellent. (Missing the point, I know.)

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

I grew up being told it was spinach! We call chard silverbeet :) I like it - it has a more earthy, almost metallic? taste compared to spinach.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 June 2006 06:12 (eighteen years ago)

I've nothing against chard, but kale+garlic+olive oil is unbeatable.

― Dell (Dell), Thursday, 1 June 2006 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

Curly kale with bisto is one of the best things about my Mum's Sunday dinners.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

I curry Kale. I curry curly Kale. Kate curries curly kale. Say that ten times fast.

― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

i don't like steamed kale, but i love it prepared other ways. my current favorite at the moment is rainbow chard, though - beautiful as well as delicious. a heap of that, just barely stir-fried, and a little bit of rare aged sirloin = swoon.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 June 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

amaranth aka callaloo aka shen choy aka chinese spinach aka indian spinach aka a bunch of other names is really good and sort of in-between chard, spinach taste-wise. supposed to be super-nutritious, even for a leafy green. i had some for the first time last night (first time knowingly, anyhow) and it is one of my new food best friends.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2321273933_5800a22092_m.jpg

― loose jorts (del), Friday, 5 November 2010 02:49 (fourteen years ago)

Horribly chard infant

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 5 November 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://example.farmnotebook.com/files/variety/image/226/small/46.jpg?1140475157

I love rainbow chard! How often is it you get to eat a healthy food that has the word "rainbow" in its name?

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Friday, 5 November 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago)

Do not make me choose. If you make me choose I will hate you, because I can only choose one and that is bad and wrong.

― Aimless, Friday, 5 November 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago)

Just made a kale/pomegranate/viniagrette salad for dinner tonight -- very delicious.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 November 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago)

amaranth aka callaloo aka shen choy aka chinese spinach aka indian spinach aka a bunch of other names

One of which is Love lies bleeding which is GOTH AS FUK.

― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Friday, 5 November 2010 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

rainbow chard for pasta, dinosaur kale for soup

but chard is a better accompaniment for grilled meat, so chard wins?

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 5 November 2010 04:12 (fourteen years ago)

I grew a ton of amaranth this year so I've had loads of that stuff - really good raw in salads, didn't get round to cooking it. Ned, I don't know if you've tried growing it, but once you've got it started off it's a doddle. All got wiped out by the first frost last week though.

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, 5 November 2010 08:13 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

CHARD BITCHES.

YOU CANNOT DENY THIS:
http://www.underwoodgardens.com/images/Swiss%20Chard.jpg

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Saturday, 11 December 2010 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

Dinosaur Kale pwns all! RARRR

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 11 December 2010 05:42 (fourteen years ago)

Made up a huge batch of kale soup just now, most of it sitting in the fridge at this point so the flavors can mix a bit over the next few days...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 December 2010 06:02 (fourteen years ago)

rainbow chard
vs
dinosaur kale

is the really most impossible way to ask this already insane question

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 11 December 2010 06:03 (fourteen years ago)

seven years pass...

In recent times Kale seems to represent pure evil, but I swear - Kale, Onion, Cabbage omelettes are one of the best ways to start the day for me rn!

― calzino, Saturday, 2 June 2018 11:54 (six years ago)

That sounds great. I love having some quality veg in the morning

― lâche pas la patate (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:01 (six years ago)

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