Gunners Chard for dinner...!

[shiney]

Gunners sent me some Chard seeds and some turnips and I have just harvested some.

I cooked my first batch of chard last night and it was delicious.

I fried a red onion and a clove of garlic in a little oil and butter, then sauteed the chard stalks for about 10 mins, followed by the chopped leaves on top. It was so tasty!

Just thought I'd share that with you. 8)

Talking of gunners, anyone seen him recently or do you think he's infront of the telly watching the footie?

[ina]

I'd noticed he'd disappeared, too - I'm sure he's watching the footie, but he seemed to be gone before all that started.

[shiney]

Maybe he's been held captive by rabied carrots on his lottie? Or he's won the lottery and done a runner to some Caribbean island.

[hedgewizard]

Made Jamie Oliver's fishy pie recipe a couple of days ago, the one with eggs in it. Substituted chard for spinach, lightly steamed and squeezed out... delicious! It has a lovely lemony tang that spinach just doesn't have.

[shiney]

Mmmm that sounds lovely hedgewizard, I love fish pie! You're right about the flavour it's much nicer than spinach.

[Andy Hamilton]

I planted a row of beet spinach and I can't keep up, got a whole carrier bag full yesterday, I need to freeze it me thinks. been eating spinach every day.

yep where is gunners, I imagine he is watching the world cup, maybe we should all pm him.

[Millymollymandy]

Let's ALL pm him! That'll confuse him!

I'd noticed he hadn't been doing his allotment updates recently. I reckon he's planted so much stuff he is bogged down with it all - as well as watching the football.

As for spinach beet - still using up last year's! This year's has been going to the chickens so far!

[ina]

Just pulled up the last of last year's spinach and fed it to the goats...

And Gunners - maybe he's in Germany and got arrested last night in Stuttgart