GREENS!

Tricia, I agree with Morningstar about the spinach. Sometimes ya just need a little break! :p

I like kale steamed and sauteed with garlic and mushrooms. And I've made a delicious dish with steaming / sauteeing and adding white beans and canned tomatoes. Yum!

I love dandelion greens. Collards a little less so.

Yesterday at Market Basket I picked up a bag of Epic Roots Chard Mix and sauteed / steamed that up with a bit 'o garlic. Fun. Pretty.

http://www.epicroots.com/products.htm

I love the things that I can just open a bag and work with immediately. I get Dread Factor if I have to rinse, de-stem, chop......on top of everything else.
 
Suzanne - I know what you mean! I love my spinach, but I know I need to mix it up now and then, so to speak! Growing up, my dad was a meat and potatoes kinda guy, so we didn't venture out of that realm. I never learned what to do with all that green leafy stuff!

I agree with you - the easier it is to work with, the better, especially when you don't know what you're doing! I wouldn't want to cut off and throw away the good part!

story1267 said:
Tricia, I agree with Morningstar about the spinach. Sometimes ya just need a little break! :p

I like kale steamed and sauteed with garlic and mushrooms. And I've made a delicious dish with steaming / sauteeing and adding white beans and canned tomatoes. Yum!

I love dandelion greens. Collards a little less so.

Yesterday at Market Basket I picked up a bag of Epic Roots Chard Mix and sauteed / steamed that up with a bit 'o garlic. Fun. Pretty.

http://www.epicroots.com/products.htm

I love the things that I can just open a bag and work with immediately. I get Dread Factor if I have to rinse, de-stem, chop......on top of everything else.
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I juice a lot of my greens or make green smoothies. I love "green lemonade". It is juiced kale, lettuce (romaine, escarole, etc), ginger, apple, whole lemon or celery, spinach, ginger, apple, whole lemon. I think it tastes pretty good and is a real pick me up.

Most of my greens go into my salad, just mix whatever I have with some Mache salad, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc. and drizzle with balsamic vinegar dressing (olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, agave or maple syrup, herbamare salt).
My current favorite is lacinto kale (shredded or chiffonade) with cranberries, almonds, sesame seeds and orange dressing (just replace balsamic vinegar in above dressing with fresh orange juice).

I think juicing is the easiest way to get lots of vitamins but I understand it is not everyone's cup of tea :eek:
 
I've been able to add more veggies to my diet by making it easier to prep and clean up (sometimes a deterrent for me). I've been using the Ziploc steamer bags, and have found they're absolutely great for asparagus and broccoli (even shrimp and lobster tail are good). I kind of suspect that you don't lose as many nutrients, but I don't know that for sure.

Has anyone tried the steamer bags for greens? I'd be curious to know what kind of results you've had.

Jane
 
Jane A said:
I've been able to add more veggies to my diet by making it easier to prep and clean up (sometimes a deterrent for me). I've been using the Ziploc steamer bags, and have found they're absolutely great for asparagus and broccoli (even shrimp and lobster tail are good). I kind of suspect that you don't lose as many nutrients, but I don't know that for sure.

Has anyone tried the steamer bags for greens? I'd be curious to know what kind of results you've had.

Jane
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I am sure they work for greens as well.

Personally, I worry about chemicals leaching out of the plastic bags, especially when exposed to heat but I admit that I am a little bit of a worry wart about that. I use mostly glass containers for storage, avoid plastic water boottles, etc. I steam my veggies in one of those bamboo steamers that you put on top of your pot. I think as long as the veggies are not submerged in water and are only steamed for a short period they shouldn't be losing too many nutrients.
 
greens

Aside from roasting the brussell sprouts you can also roast cabbage, asparagus & broccoli in the oven at about 4:25 or 4:50. Put a little olive oil on them & roast them you can also put parmasian cheese, hot pepper flakes, really anything you can imagaine.

enjoy

karen
 
I've not seen the steamer bags, but I have a really nice Oster steamer that I love! Thanks to some enablers here, I got it at Kohl's last summer for a steal! With the sale, I think I got it for around $12!!! I couldn't believe it! You can't even get anything that cheap anymore!

It's going to get used a lot more I suspect! Hope I don't burn it out!
 
Definitely expand your selection beyond spinach.

Spinach (along with chard, and beet greens) contains oxalic acid, which binds with calcium and iron and reduces their absorption.
 
My humble green suggestions

Syzygy, I share the same problem of limited cooking ideas for greens. I speak for myself here, but I am a terrible cook. Here are two ideas (my only two ideas):

-- boil fresh green beens from the store, along with fresh mushrooms, from the store, together, for about half an hour;

-- boil frozen peas for a bit, then throw them into a standard mix of rice to be boiled -- and then boil both together.

Those two are my only source of greens, but I think I will take your suggestion on the spinach, since spinach is a good vegetable.
-- Davidj
 
Thanks Kathryn for the info on the differences between vegan and vegetarian! Also, I had no idea spinach could do that! Luckily, I'm not a spinach addict, but when I do have green leafy it tends to be spinach!

David - thanks for the ideas! I was never really taught to cook. Everything I learned, I learned from a cookbook! I only just started venturing away from written recipes just a teeny bit. Mostly, I still use Allrecipies.com (a fantastic resource), Clean Eating Magazine and my old faithful Southern Living cookbook for recipes and meal ideas!

It's worked well for me!
 
Wow! That looks delicious and the recipe is so simple!
Thank you for that one!

I also was listening to NPR yesterday on our way back from Boston and they were talking with a chef named Bryant Terry about his, I think, recent cookbook, Vegan Soul Kitchen. I took a look at that one and I put it on my Amazon list!

andtckrtoo said:
I have a recipe for kale, chickpeas and black olives that is excellent. You can serve it with brown rice for a healthy meal. I served it with Sea Scallops the other night and we were in heaven. http://www.cookworm.com/2007/12/19/kale-with-olives-and-chickpeas/
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Like another poster said...I do add spinach to all my smoothies. You can not even taste any difference, I promise. I was so skeptical until I did it. Also I would just google healthy easy kale recipes. Or greens recipes. That is how I get all my ideas. I think of what I am in the mood for or what I have time for or the ingredients for and just google that!
I hope that helps some.

Rachel
 
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