Swiss Chard growing in the garden!

The colourful and vibrant "Five colour Silverbeet" Swiss Chard growing in our garden.  It's surprising what you can find in the kitchen garden at this time of the year...

Seeds by: Thompson & Morgan (Heritage collection)

See also this earlier post:
Growing tasty and vibrant Swiss Chard 

Swiss Chard, Walnut & Miso Pesto

Swiss Chard, Walnut & Miso Pesto 

A Swiss Chard Pesto recipe infused with Asian ingredients.

When it is overcast and grey outside, and large drops of rain have begun to fall from the skies, there is little motivation to tend the vegetable patch, and all I want to do is huddle up indoors with some nourishing, comforting food.  It is days like this that I dream of wholesome spaghetti drenched in warm, delicious green nuttiness.

Stir-fried Spicy Swiss Chard (Malaysian style) Recipe

Stir-Fry Swiss Chard with garlic, chillies for a tasty Malaysian style vegetable dish..

It is late Summer, and the kitchen garden is filled with a wonderful assortment of edibles awaiting harvest.  Amongst them, tall handsome golden stalks are interspersed with hot pink and creamy coloured stems, momentarily catching the eye of the beholder, in the sea of dark green glossy leaves.

Swiss Chard & Feta Parcels Recipe

With all this wonderful Swiss Chard growing in the kitchen garden, I am fast running out of recipe ideas to keep this spinach like vegetable interesting for the dinner table.  In our household, we usually stir-fry chard with garlic, but I found this Spinach & feta parcel recipe and adapted it for use with Swiss Chard.

Homegrown Swiss Chard is delicious stir-fried!

Fancy some bright sherbet coloured vegetables for dinner?  Try growing rainbow coloured Swiss Chard in your kitchen garden; it is closely related to Spinach, and has a similar, but more delicate taste.  It's stems grow in a variety of colours - pink, yellow, cream and orange, so very enticing, which makes me wonder why this vegetable is not more commonly found on supermarket shelves, as they make for a lovely change to ordinary green vegetables.  It is also a great alternative for Chinese/ Asian greens.

Growing Gorgeous Vibrant Pink Swiss Chard - tasty too!

Swiss Chard is such a gorgeous, vibrant addition to the kitchen garden.  I love that their stems come in rainbow colours - bright pinks, yellows, oranges and of course, cream.  This variety is "Five Colour Silverbeet" by Thompson & Morgan, and is part of their Heritage Collection.