All posts tagged: silverbeet

Bright lights

We have lots of rainbow silverbeet in our little vege garden. For those in other countries, you might know of silverbeet as swiss chard. This variety is called Brighlights. I’ve seen other gardens with pink, red, orange and yellow but ours only sprouts red, pink and the very normal white. Silverbeet grows easily in New Zealand gardens though it is often hated by kids and grown ups alike. It can be used in place of spinach in just about any recipe. I think it’s quite beautiful. It’s just begging to be shown off on a colourful plate of food. p.s. This blog just went over 200,000 hits this week! Thank you for the hits!

Easy Pork Chop dinner

This is the first time I’ve ever grown silverbeet, and while it’s not my favourite vegetable, it’s super easy to grow and easy to cook too. Here I served up sauteed silverbeet with some roast vegies like garlic, potato, onion and mushrooms. The porkchop was thickly coated in apple sauce, a little sugar, salt and pepper and pan fried until done. The black caramelised bits tasted like intense, savoury, applepork. Yes, applepork is a word. Well, now it is.