Spring Greens

elsien

Bubble and squeak?

ditsykitchen

elsien wrote: »

Bubble and squeak?

This is a bit embarassing, but what is bubble and squeak?

elsien

Traditionally it's a way of using up the leftovers from a Sunday dinner, but you could cook the cabbage and potatoes ( and any other veg you have to hand) from scratch.
Nice with bacon slung in if you have any veggie bacon to hand.

http://britishfood.about.com/od/easybritishrecipes/r/bubblesqueak.htm

Caterina

Or make the shepherds pie and have sautee greens as a side dish. Chop greens finely and sautee in a pan with a bit of oil, chopped garlic and chilli to taste, if it gets too dry add a splash of water, put a lid on and lt it cook until tender.

ditsykitchen

Can I replace spinach in a recipe with greens? Just found a couple of nice looking recipes.

phizzimum

you could incorporate some cooked cabbage into the mash - then serve some as a side dish. A stir fry is a good way to use up lots of cabbage too

peachyprice

ditsykitchen wrote: »

Can I replace spinach in a recipe with greens? Just found a couple of nice looking recipes.

Depends on the recipe really, greens stay fairly firm unlike spinach.

They do keep really well in the fridge, I buy a bag with two in that only OH and one son eat, they keep going about 3 weeks before needing to be chucked.

Butterfly_Brain

You could always freeze them, I wash and slice the leaves, pop into freezer bags and just get them out when you want them

meritaten

yes freeze them until needed. my fave recipe with greens is
Cabbage with bacon and garlic. makes a fantastic 'side' dish.

one spring green
half or whole onion sliced
couple of slices of bacon chopped or sliced
couple cloves of garlic

just sweat the onion in butter or oil til transparent and add the bacon cook til the bacon is 'as you like it' then add chopped garlic and the sliced greens - cook for a few minutes until the greens are nicely wilted but not soggy!

yes - I have been know to do this with almost every member of the cabbage family, from white cabbage through savoy to Brussels sprouts. delish every time!

ditsykitchen

I ended up making a big batch of veggie chilli to use up a carton of mushrooms and threw in a sliced head of cabbage. The rest is getting sliced and frozen