Swiss Chard Fresh Picked Organic

This is a picture of some Swiss Chard I just picked from a plant I’ve got growing outside in a wooden box approximately 18 inches x 18 inches (and roughly two fee tall). Swiss Chard is nutrient rich and full of vitamins and minerals. I basically try to harvest the larger leaves leaving the fresh young leaves so that the plant keeps on living and producing.

Here’s what I did to cook it.

I chopped up the leaves and stems and placed them in the upper portion of my steam pot (it’s a pot with a rack to hold the leaves above the boiling/steaming water).

I mixed in some garlic powder, minced dried onion, Costco/Kirkland no-salt seasoning, a couple capfulls of liquid  hickory smoke, and a few shakes of salt substitute.

I steamed it roughly 12 minutes in my steaming pot (10 minutes probably would have been more than enough)

And there you go, a delicious nutritious dish, that even tastes like it had meat in it.

I wanted to add a bit of olive oil (couple teaspoons), but didn’t have any handy.