Swiss Chard, For the Family

It’s a super-veggie, packed with loads of vitamins, antioxidants, and a huge list of good stuff that the whole family can enjoy.  Or at least tolerate.  Or at very least you can distract them by talking about the wondrous array of fairy-land colors.  Or something.

Here’s how I get my kids to eat chard:

I cut up the leaves and the stalks, both parts are edible and worthy, and mix it into the girls’ salads.

They may moan a little, but sell it like a game: who can find all the gorgeous jewels, and make them disappear first? Tell them it’s the favorite food of princesses and fairies, or dragons and trains.  Whatever it takes, you know.

And here’s how the grown-ups eat their chard:

Chop the leaves, dice the stalks and saute away in about a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, diced onions and chopped garlic.  Then hide it, like I do in this lasagna.

• Category: Family, Recipe
• Tag: rainbow chard, super vegetable, swiss chard