{"id":1498,"date":"2009-08-19T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2009-08-25T23:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T06:27:33","slug":"use-stems-and-all-with-swiss-chard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Use Stems and All with Swiss Chard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite vegetable is white-stemmed Swiss chard.\u00c2\u00a0 Coarsely chop the mature leaves, dice the stems, and cook till tender in boiling, salted water.\u00c2\u00a0 The result is mellow-tasting and delectable.\u00c2\u00a0 Try adding a splash of vinegar just before serving.\u00c2\u00a0 You can substitute Swiss chard for spinach in cooked dishes, with the advantage that you can use the chard stems.\u00c2\u00a0 In &#8220;The Green Thumb Book of Fruit and Vegetable Gardening&#8221; (George Abraham, 1970) you will find the ultimate chard-stem recipe:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Chicken Chard.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The recipe calls for dipping pre-cooked stem pieces in batter and frying them in one inch of cooking oil.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Delicious&#8211; just like fried chicken!&#8221; says the author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite vegetable is white-stemmed Swiss chard.\u00c2\u00a0 Coarsely chop the mature leaves, dice the stems, and cook till tender in boiling, salted water.\u00c2\u00a0 The result is mellow-tasting and delectable.\u00c2\u00a0 Try adding a splash of vinegar just before serving.\u00c2\u00a0 You can substitute Swiss chard for spinach in cooked dishes, with the advantage that you can use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}