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Month: January 2011

Swiss Chard Gratin

Swiss Chard Gratin

I am always looking for new things to do with leafy greens. At this point, I’ve done the quiche/fritatta, the pasta, the saute, the soup, etc. The only one I hadn’t done (until recently) was the casserole. I’d seen several recipes for vegetable casseroles featuring chard or kale, but none had spoken to me. That was, until I heard tell of a swiss chard gratin recipe on AEB which had become “an AEB standard”. Now, a good recipe is one…

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A Tale of Two Loaves

A Tale of Two Loaves

It is January in the Northeast, a sad time on the fruit front. The clementines are getting mushy and saccharine, the strawberries are pallid and flavourless, and we are still 3 months away from seeing anything locally grown on our shelves. This is the time of year I fall into the banana-grapefruit rut. Bananas because I can throw them in my bag, grapefruits because they actually taste like something. However, it’s also the time of year that the stores are…

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