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Default Swiss Chard question

On 3/6/2011 6:21 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
> This stuff is not cheap (about $1.50 a bunch), but when my wife makes
> something with them, she always cuts the stems off and tosses them. Do
> the stems truly have no use in cooking?




You can cook the stems separately like asparagus, or chop and cooke them
along with the leaves, but in my opinion, they don't taste any better
than the leaves, which have an odd metallic flavor to me.

gloria p