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Spinach

*crikey*mate* — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:45:16 GMT

Fresh or frozen?

(Do we have it canned like ion the Popeye Cartoons?

What do you do with it?

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boris1gary — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:48:32 GMT

baby or grown up? spinach.

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ca04 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:50:34 GMT

Have it with olive Oil.:-)

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boris1gary — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:52:15 GMT

and garlic.

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spotweldersfriend — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:55:29 GMT

Nice on a Wimpey burger:)

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*crikey*mate* — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:58:47 GMT

@boris1gary wrote:
baby or grown up? spinach.

I use baby spinach in salads, but for cooking I use the big stuff. The flavour is not as delicate and the structure is more robust and it's more cost effective.

I find if I use baby spinach in cooking, say a fritatta or scrambled eggs that the sausage or other ingredients over power the spinach, but the big spinach is able to hold it's own.

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*crikey*mate* — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:01:03 GMT

@ca04 wrote:
Have it with olive Oil.:-)

I do that with baby spinach, and aged balsamic and toasted almonds (flaked) and sea salt and pepper. Sometimes I might add advocado, roasted tomatoes and boccini.

It's one of my favourite salads.

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joz*garage — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:05:15 GMT

mother cooks the fresh stuff with some sort of creamy sauce, its pretty good

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icyfroth — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:04:40 GMT

I love spinach but rarely, almost never, actually never, cook it or get to eat it. Hubs won't eat anyting green.

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*crikey*mate* — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:07:06 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
I love spinach but rarely, almost never, actually never, cook it or get to eat it. Hubs won't eat anyting green.

leave his share in the pan longer, then it won't be green anymore LOL

But what do you lijke doing with it? How do you prepare it?

On the big one, I don't use the central white stalks unless I mince them

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boris1gary — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:09:45 GMT

baby is great in stir fry, Mr Boris won't eat the big stuff, no matter how much I wash it he says it tastes like dirt.

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ambercat16 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:29:42 GMT

@diamond-halo wrote:
On the big one, I don't use the central white stalks unless I mince them

I always thought the one with the central white stalk was silverbeet (or is that just 'cos I grew up in NZ)

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*crikey*mate* — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:42:34 GMT

might be, I use the term interchangeably, Easier to spell spinach and quicker to write on a shopping list LOL

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imastawka — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:47:34 GMT

@ambercat16 wrote:

@diamond-halo wrote:
On the big one, I don't use the central white stalks unless I mince them
I always thought the one with the central white stalk was silverbeet (or is that just 'cos I grew up in NZ)

Silver beet does have the white stalks (and other colours - red, yellow) Poms like

to call it Chard or Swiss Chard.

Totally different taste to Spinach, I reckon

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imastawka — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:51:26 GMT

If you want to make a healthy food into unhealthy food, trim the stalks

and batter them and then deep fry 'em! I'm told they're yummy.

But I won't eat them.

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ca04 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:53:46 GMT

Olive Oil is Popeye's girlfriend. 🙂

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*crikey*mate* — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:56:19 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
If you want to make a healthy food into unhealthy food, trim the stalks
and batter them and then deep fry 'em! I'm told they're yummy.
But I won't eat them.

when we were kids, we used to put peanut butter in em and eat em raw!

Like whaaaaa????

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ca04 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:58:08 GMT

baby is great in stir fry, Mr Boris won't eat the big stuff, no matter how much I wash it he says it tastes like dirt.

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The mind boogles over this statement!

Ether a little baby or a big frypan?

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imastawka — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:59:57 GMT

when we were kids, we used to put peanut butter in em and eat em raw!

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Ewwww!! Mind you, I used to fill celery stalks with peanut butter

for my kid and grand-kids. They loved that

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lyndal1838 — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:39:49 GMT

I use shredded silverbeet leaves in stirfries.