Thank you for the overwhelming response to this giveaway! A winner has been chosen–scroll down to the end of the post for details.
Instead of one recipe today, how about an entire book? Because I took the photos for Wild About Greens, Nava Atlas’ brilliant new cookbook, her editor was kind enough to send me several copies, and I would like to pass two of those books on to a couple of my faithful readers. So look below for details on how you can enter to win.
But first, some photos of the book:
When you take photos for a book, you never know how they’ll look; the designers crop them to fit their layout and design and sometimes even flip them so that they are mirror images of the way you actually shot them. The designers of Wild About Greens did a fantastic job of editing my photos, making them look better than I ever expected.
My photos are in a color insert in the middle of the book, but Nava’s lovely illustrations grace almost every page. One of my favorite sections is the introduction to leafy greens which gives information on 18 different types of greens.
But my very favorite page? That would have to be the title page!
For more information about the book, as well as the recipe for Nava’s Three Potato Salad with Arugula, see my earlier post.
If you would like a chance to win your own copy of Wild About Greens, all you have to do is leave a comment below telling me your favorite leafy green vegetable and how you like to prepare it. The contest will close at noon Central time on Wednesday, June 20, when I will pick a winner at random. Check back here to see if you’ve won. But wait! For a second chance to win, check my Facebook page, where I’m running a second contest simultaneously. Leave a comment on the Wild About Greens post there, and I’ll select a winner at random from those entries, too.
Update: The contest is now over. The winning comment, selected by Random.org, is number 425, by Sheila, who wrote, “I love baby bok choy stir ‘fried’ with veggie broth with shiitake mushrooms and other veggies over brown rice. Sometimes I thicken the sauce with a corn starch slurry for a thicker coating over my rice.” Congratulations, Sheila! Baby bok choy is one of my favorites, too.
Thank you for all your comments, especially for the cooking suggestions. I could cook greens all year using your ideas!
If you entered in the Facebook giveaway, be sure to check my Facebook page for the winner.
Thank you!
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Janet
My favorite leafy vegetable is guy lon. Heat up a pan, add a small amount of oil and stir fry it with chopped onions, minced garlic and ginger (add a couple T. of water half way through the cooking process). Add soy sauce to taste. Yummy!
Adelaide Federici
Kale, hands down. I love it raw with avocado and lemon juice or baked chips with a sprinkle of nutritional yeast. Thank you!
Joyce
Beet greens all the way! I’m not ashamed to walk up to people buying beets in the produce section and beg for their greens. Simple preparation is the best — braise in water or veg broth with some onion and shallots or garlic. Then throw in the roasted beets and finish with some rice vinegar. Nothing finer.
Sarah
Recently, kale is my favourite. Love it raw, in smoothies or steamed and smothered in a spicy tahini sauce. I’m a big fan of spinach too and will happily eat it lightly cooked and in huge quantities 🙂
Pam McDonnell
I love kale and lentil soup! Actually, I love kale in everything!
Joanna
Kale too 😉 Kale Chips are The best and so high in Calcium ^-^!
Ilene Ungerleider
I love Bok Choy salad. I make a dressing with tahini, soy sauce and some grated onion. This often has to be thinned out a little with some water. I cut up the bok choy (can be baby or adult) into bite sized pieces and put the dressing on. Let it set for a little while and then it is ready to eat.
Sara A
What a great giveaway!
My favorite is spinach with sesame and soy sauce. I grind the toasted sesame seeds and add a bit of sugar (or any sweetener) and soy sauce. I parboil the spinach, squeeze it dry, cut into small pieces and then mix it all together. This works with any kind of greens.
Myra
Dinosaur Kale is my favorite! Easy to wash and chop, though all kale prep is a labor of love because it’s not quick. I love to eat it raw, either massaged with the least bit of olive oil and salt then tossed with pine nuts and dried cranberries for a simple salad, or added to other salads where the greens can marinate in the dressing for awhile to soften, OR blended with bananas and other fruit in a green smoothie. yum!
charlotte jackson
I love spinach. Just steamed. Plain and simple.
Cindy Abraham
I like to make swiss chard, saute with some oil and garlic–yummy
Sarah Richardson
My favourite leafy green is spinach and I love them in mango, banana, almond milk smoothies!
catherine colwell
Kale. Kale with lemon juice, olive oil and sea salt.
Kale with chickpeas; curried or herbed.
Kale soup with cannelini and mixed veg.
Kale, tomato, celery, beet, carrot, jalepeno, lemon, red pepper…. juice
Dawn Smith
Im WILD ABOUT GREENS!!
Constance
Favorite leafy green, so hard to choose! I would have to say curly Kale in a a giant kale salad (the serving bowl size, I use a big wooden oblong bowl I call my salad boat) with some kind of tahini dressing rubbed in topped with beans and lots of veggies. My go to dinner!
Janet
Kale has become my favorite. Usually I cook it with just a little liquid in the bottom of the pan, add plenty of minced garlic, throw in a good pinch of hot pepper sprinkles (to taste), and mix in just a little bit of instant broth (like chicken or vegetable). Also, garbanzo beans or butter beans are excellent additions. Another great addition is previously crispy-fried bacon, crumbled up and mixed in.
Suzanne Torres
My very favorite vegetable is kale. I love to eat it raw massaged with avocado and red pepper flakes sprinkled on top!
John Courter
I love them all but collards are definitely a favorite. I especially love them in your Navy Bean and Collards Soup recipe. For desert I love throwing a handful of spinach or kale into a fresh fruit smoothie.
gigi
My fave leafy green is probably kale – or chard – I can’t decide. My fave prep is to chop, saute a scallion and minced garlic in some olive oil, add the chopped greens, toss and wilt, splash with some balsamic, sprinkle with gomasio and serve!
Helen Gatling-Austin
Kale or collards sauteed in a little olive oil (or water for no fat) and a chopped up banana. Or softened dried cranberries or cherries or raisins. Sweet and bitter makes it yummy.
Melise
baby spinach, in my smoothie…every morning 😉
Kalliope
Would love to get the book. Your photos are amazing! Lately I’m especially enamored of tofu and napa cabbage, broiled with a mustard glaze (hot mustard, agave, and optional olive oil). The glaze is also the marinade for the tofu.
amanda
i’ll never stop saying it: your swiss chard pie is tops!
Dee Bridgewater
I live to east mustard greens – spicy hot curly leaves – sooo good in salads, soups, and wraps. Not available all year. I find organic mustard greens at Whole foods Market.
Charleybrown
Hard to choose! But I love putting Kale in my green smoothies!
Kristen Piering
My favorite is arugula and I like to use it in pesto!!
Dara
mmmm, hard to pick! Steamed Organic Kale with lemon-garlic tahini dressing, or Organic Collards cooked with carmelized onions and garlic!
Sherri D
Kale is my favorite green…so versatile. I love it juiced, smoothied, baked, steamed and stir fried. I put tons of it in my lentil soup and makes it all the more hearty. My favorite recipe for kale is to stir fry a few bunches in red onions, vegggie broth and garlic – simple, but a winner every single time.
Cindy L
Baby spinach leaves!!! I add them to almost everything!
kate s.
kale! massaged with lots of lemon, but also in your yellow split pea soup!
Mystique
Kale is my favorite because it is a nutritional powerhouse. I like to eat it in a raw kale salad but we also like kale chips and we boil or steam a bunch and then chop it up and add it to everything from pasta to burritos.
I love Nava’s books and your photos! I am making Nava’s tomato soup this week!
Barbara Sterett
I love my green leafy vegatables, especially Kale. I use in my kale and avocado salad and in my smoothies.
liz meller
I would like to win Nava Atlas’s book, Wild about Greens because I really loved the 3 color potato salad.
my favorite green is kale that is roasted in the oven at 400 degrees. just a touch of salt and it tastes like potato chips and such a great green color.
liz meller
Tamara Reynolds
Kale!! I just made a Quinoa and Kale stuffed tomato for my mom (and dad, who didn’t know there were onions in it) because I am getting them to go Vegan for their health!! It is kale, onion, broccoli sauteed in water mixed with cooked quinoa… add a little tamari and stuff into an heirloom tomato (mom would prefer bell pepper). Super easy, SO delicious!! Normally, I use cook and puree them for my son (and put in his “green oatmeal”) and my husband and I juice them!! I would love to learn more recipes for Kale!!!
Karen Harris
I like kale best because it is a nutrition superfood. I like it sauteed with onion. Thank you for the give-away!
Jessica C.
I love kale, and I especially love to saute it with garlic and red pepper flakes. Thanks for the giveaway!
Philippa
I have many favourite veggies, but the one that is calling me right now is baby bok choy, which I like to braise in a garlicky stock.
Erin
I love to make cheesy kale chips using a sauce of cashews, red pepper, lemon juice, and other seasonings! Unfortunately, I eat them much more quickly than I can produce them and kale season is basically over.
john
Spinach is my favorite green. I prepare it the way Popeye would — Lightly steamed with a little water. No Olive Oil this time…HUCK! HUCK! HUCK!
Cat
Love your website! When I needed to switch to a vegan diet last year, I got SO MUCH help from your thoughts and recipes! I can’t believe how many greens I’ve added to my diet since then, so I REALLY hope I might win one of the cookbooks! It’s hard to choose just one that I like best… kale, chard, spinach… in smoothies or steamed… collards with black-eyed peas… I guess it’s kind of fun, though, and I feel like I’m cheating the store when I buy beets – because I get the greens for “free”!