"Kathi Jones" wrote in message
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Do you use raw chard in your salad and is it just the leaf or stalk
too? Never considered eating it raw. Funny the ruts one can get into.

Chard is the only green we grow down here in SW Louisiana as it is the
only one I actually enjoy eating. We use just the leaf in salads but
when we cook it we use stalk and all. Sometimes we just graze on it as
we go through the garden.
Although my grandfather always seemed to have chard in his garden, we
never ate the leaves - always just boiled the stalks and had them with a
white sauce with butter. Thanks

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Wilson N45 W67

ok, so I'm a chard virgin....what does it taste like? how does it compare
to lettuce? Spinach? something else?

curious,
Kathi

I've found tender young chard better tasting than spinnich and doesn't bolt
so quick down here in the heat.
m2cw
Edrena