Discovering Swiss Chard

As a house, we have been receiving what is called the "Good food box" which is really neat. It is all organic, and either locally grown or fairly traded. (To read more about fairly traded stuff, check out my friend's blog Just Consumers?). Anyways, each week we get a bunch of (usually) in season fruits and vegetables and we have to find our way to consume the abundance of amazing foods that we are given. Organic food goes bad a whole lot faster. It has made me think and question what I have been eating all these years. We are what we eat! I'm becoming more aware of the injustices and just wrong practices that society has become so accustomed to.. I keep thinking of the Steve Bell line in one of his songs: With much wisdom, comes much sorrow. (A little plug for Steve Bell - if you don't know who he is, check him out. He is a Christian singer/song writer that has been extremely influential in my life and I tend to quote him a lot on my blog of reflections).

So this is swiss chard. It turned the water a beautiful bright redish-pink colour. It is like spinach, and just with spinach and kale you shouldn't cook it for longer than it needs or else it will turn bitter.

This is the final product - a swiss chard back. It is filled with egg, milk, bread cubes and tons of cheese :) Yummy - my housemates said this one was a keeper.