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This is a food blog with recipes and ideas for using the seasonal vegetables from your garden, friend's gardens and community supported agriculture shares (CSA). If you haven't checked out a CSA in your area, it is worth your time to check out what is available to you, and LOCAL HARVEST is a great place to start.

I am trying oh so hard to become a Forks over Knives type vegan, with no animal products of any kind and no added oil. I have given up meat, fish, dairy, eggs and most processed foods and am moving toward the goal of no oil. While you will find eggs, dairy and oil in my earlier recipes, the goal is not to use them anymore.

Some of my earlier recipes include dairy and eggs, but I am moving away from that, I am endeavoring to create delicious all vegan no fat added recipes.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Potatoes and Swiss Chard

A few weeks ago we were getting a lot of Swiss chard from our CSA, as well as potatoes, onions and garlic. I used this recipe to deal with the abundance of the chard.

Feeds 4

6-8 small red potatoes (you could easily use yellow or fingerling)
3-4 cups of Swiss chard cut chiffonade
1 Tbsp. chopped rosemary, leaves only (fresh from the herb garden is best)
4-6 cloves garlic (left whole)
1 Tbsp. olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Heat the olive oil in a large non-stick skillet
Wash and cut the potatoes in to approximately 1 inch cubes.
Cook the potatoes and the whole garlic cloves in the hot oil for 10 minutes or so until the potatoes are softened and they are getting a nice brown on the outside.
Sprinkle the salt on the potatoes while they are cooking.
Once the potatoes are nice and brown and soft, remove the garlic cloves. You can dispose of all but two of the cloves. Smash and finely chop the two remaining cloves and add back into the potatoes. Add the rosemary. Cook a few minutes longer.
Add the Swiss chard and stir, cooking only a few minutes just until the chard starts to wilt. Add salt and pepper to taste.

You could use basil, thyme or any herb you prefer rather than the rosemary.

* This recipe borrows heavily from one I found at Flatbush Farm Share

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