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By Hank

Cheshire, United Kingdom Gb

Not really a gardening question but I have to report back about my spinach and 6 cloves of garlic recipe which I cooked an hout ago.
I made it exactly as the recipe said and it tasted of nothing at all. Thank goodness I had a couple of mackerel fillets with it which were excellent.
Not sure I'll be growing spinach after all but I'll give it 1 more chance by tasting Bamboo's recipe.




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But you don't need a 'recipe' for spinach. It is excellent just steamed and served as a side veg.

25 Feb, 2017

 

Surely you could taste the garlic Hank? However, as Bulba says steam lightly toss in butter and serve, you will then get the flavour of the spinach and nothing else. Would I was allowed to eat lots of green leafy veg but the meds I'm on mean it is a no no!

25 Feb, 2017

 

Oh yuk, I hate spinach just steamed, with or without butter but it would be so much easier if I did like it that way! Hank, garlic is known for having a slightly anaesthetic effect on things it touches, like your taste buds - using so much might have meant you ended up not tasting anything at all, or just garlic, which is a taste you're used to. I recommend you just use 1 or 2 cloves in that recipe I gave you...flavour is about balance as much as anything.

25 Feb, 2017

 

B, I intend testing the spinach out on your recipe next, once I have the courage to touch the stuff again. Honestly i would have been just as well have been eating mud. It was a recipe I got from one of the cookery programmes.

25 Feb, 2017

 

Raw spinach in salad Bamboo and Hank? If you buy those bags of salad a lot have spinach in them... Or shred very finely and add to an omelette, there are so many things you can do with spinach.

25 Feb, 2017

 

Yea, I eat it raw, especially the baby leaves, and I include it in other things like omelettes, or with chickpeas, cauliflower, spices and spinach, that sort of thing, saag aloo is great too, I even microwaved some the other night and added it to my shop bought chicken tikka marsala, so I do eat it, but not as a pile of plain wilted spinach as a green veg with, say, meat and potatoes, I have to tart it up a bit, lol!

25 Feb, 2017

 

Gawd we don't, in general, do meat and potatoes... but spinach is just so yummy to me and not being able to eat is a pain in the micta

25 Feb, 2017

 

In our family, we usually steam it, salt it lightly, butter it, add a few drops of lemon juice, to cut the slight bitterness, and serve it with hard boiled egg slices.

26 Feb, 2017

 

That sounds so good Tugb. I used to love Eggs Florentine too before warfarin...

26 Feb, 2017

 

My son has just owned up that he puts it raw in my sandwiches when he runs out of lettuce and that I never know the difference. So that's perhaps the answer.
I may grow it after all.

26 Feb, 2017

 

There you go Hank... most folk don't notice the difference :)

26 Feb, 2017

 

You can still eat spinach when you're on warfarin, MG - I was on that for 12 years and still ate brussels sprouts and spinach. The trick is not to eat too much at once and to eat foods with high Vit K content regularly, preferably daily. I'm on a different thinner now and have to watch potassium intake instead, so generally, its low fruit and tomato consumption... there's a price for everything, isn't there! I hope they warned you about cranberry juice though, to be avoided other than a tiny glassful.

Hank, don't forget to report back if you do my recipe, love to know how you find it.

26 Feb, 2017

 

I'll report back B, but after my experience yesterday it may be a while and I'll have to brace myself all over again.

26 Feb, 2017

 

hi Bamboo, yes I can eat small amounts of leafy green veg. but certainly not every day, advice is no more than a couple of times a week. Cranberry and grapefruit juice a huge no, no's...

Hank try eggs Florentine you sit the poached egg, or eggs, on top of the cooked spinach.

26 Feb, 2017

 

MG, will PM you...

26 Feb, 2017

 

Hank - that recipe I gave you will be a totally different experience, I can assure you. Anyway, its a complete meal on its own, either lunch or dinner, but I recommend you don't use your stilton the first time you make it, just use a little strong grated cheddar over the top (not loads either!) and see how you like that. If the spinach leaves are large, tear them up a bit before wilting them.

26 Feb, 2017

 

Ok Buddy, definitely no stilton, Cheddar it is, thanks

26 Feb, 2017

How do I say thanks?

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