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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VeganBeHappy
Swiss Chard. A “cheese” pie is one of my favourite ways of eating them. But simply steamed is also an amazing way.
Paula
My favorite leafy green vegetable, hmmm, tough decision. I’m going with kale, sautéed simply in olive oil with fresh garlic, salt, & pepper.
elaine
I am addicted to bok choy!!!!!! I make a dip with tons of spices and dip my mini bok choys! I am a raw vegan, so a book like this would open my world to a brand new way of eating. I love discovering new greens to eat!
Thank you
Lisa
I heart greens!! Kale is just so awesome. I just made a delicious dandelion greens, kale, apple and lemon (peel and all) tonic this weekend. Dandelion kale lemonade! 🙂
Corina
I love spinach in a curry.
Susan Gitlitz
Kale (all varieties) is my favorite, because of the nutritional value and whether it’s raw or cooked retains its flavor. I like it raw in my morning smoothly and steamed chopped stems in my beans.
vicky chan
Kale, lightly sauteed with onions, and a pinch of salt.
Theresa Anderson
Kale is my favorite. I love to cook it in my pressure cooker ,chop and drain of course, then put a cashew sauce on it, seasoned with dehydrated onion, garlic, lemon juice ,nutritional yeast and cayenne. Yummy!
Kyle
My favorite green is kai-lan (or gai-lan or chinese broccoli). I love it simply sauteed with garlic, ginger, a splash of soy sauce, a dash of sesame oil and a squeeze of lemon. So refreshing, nourishing and delicious!
Yale Rosenblatt
I was using the Lacinto Kale is sautes as well as in cold dishes until I fell in love with the Red Russian Kale. I thinly slice 2 bunches of the Kale, shred a bunch of brussels sprouts, add a lemon juice, mustard, garlic dressing, finishing up with chopped almonds and a Vegan “Parmesan” cheese mix. This cold slaw is outrageously delicious.
Cynthia Niernberger
My family’s favorite recipe for greens is a creamy curry with Tofutti cream cheese (just a T or 2 to taste) with a good T of garam masala…so easy and so fast!
You can make it with baby kale, chard or just good old spinach….somehow the
mix of flavors is so exotic and yet such a comfort food. Optional items to add
are raisins (soaked in hot water) or craisins or dates and/or chopped nuts or sesame seeds on top for a garnish! Enjoy!
top for a garnish
Sandy Cook
Only one? That would be collard greens. Cooked with mushrooms & onions and some kind of bean with balsamic vinegar. Quick & easy. Also love your most recent curried chickpeas and kale. Yummy.
Ruskin Days
Definitely kale for kale chips! They were my first introduction to kale and now I make it the first introduction for all my family and friends. I make a dressing with tamari, tahini, nooch, apple cider vinegar and water and dehydrate it all. I am yet to meet a person who doesn’t drool and ask for more and I now make it as gifts for people!
Landa
My absolute favorite are collard greens. I love them sautéed with onions, garlic, red pepper in a veggie broth! Recently, I started juicing them. .
Rueth Annafey
A difficult question! I suppose it has to be broccoli in “heavenly” sauce
I made this up so amounts are very rough…
Firt I cut the broccoli into florets and steam it lightly.
The I make the sauce:
In a little EVOO sautee 1/2 chopped onion with 3 gloves of chopped garlic and 1″ piece of chopped ginger.
When the onions are translucent, add 1/2 tsp of ground turmeric and 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon and 1/2 – 1 tsp of himalayan salt and a little freshly ground black pepper. Add 75g of cashews and the juice of 1/2 a lemon. Wizz everything together in a blender until smooth..add enough water to make it the consistency of thick mayo.
Put broccoli on a plate, pour over a generous quantity of the sauce. Top with toasted almonds.
I suppose this is one of my favourite recepies because apart from being absolutely delish, it’s full of so many things which are good for your health! The broccoli has so many amazing health giving properties, but particuarly fights against womens cancers. Then we have the turmeric (its power is enhanced by the black pepper), garlic, onion, ginger and lemon juice which all have incredible health benefits and have all been used in studies to fight cancer. I also recently read a study on cashews being used as a cure for cancer, but I add them because the nuts and broccoli in the recipe give it a huge amount of protein and healthy fats as well as ensuring that it has a low G.I.. Anyone with blood sugar levels will not only benefit from this, but also from the addition of cinnamon which is excellent when it comes to stabalizing blood sugar levels! As far as I’m concerned something which tastes as good as this and has all these healthy ingredients is almost too good to be true!
lynn
Kale. Purple Russian Kale.
My favorite is to take the kale and dehydrate it wit lime juice, nutritonal yeast and chili powder.
Usually I dry sauté it in an iron skillet mixed with onion, shitake mushrooms, beans and other seasonal veggies and either mix when cooled with sauerkraut (ginger beat or garlic dill) or kimkee and then take it to work for lunch
Judy Maxwell
Spinach, any way I can get it. Love it raw in salads, in smoothies, steamed, cooked down with onions and garlic and mushrooms, in tofu scramble, on a sandwich!
Maria
I love kale, I can use to make my favorite ravioli, my minestrone, etc.
I think the book it is interesting and I will like tonhave it.
Maria
Kim
My favorite leafy green vegetable is baby spinach! I love it in salads or soups or green smoothies.
Nancy
Just getting started on a vegan lifestyle. Your site has been very, very helpful, and an inspiration. I’m amazed at how good everything tastes that I’ve tried so far. Up to now, I get my greens in form from salads. (Living in a small town, in northern Germany the green season is just getting started).
Diandra
I am boring – my favorite leafy green is spinach, best in a vegan curry with carrots or Hokkaido, peanut butter, yellow curry paste and coconut milk (served over rice).
Caren
My favorite are mustard greens. I saute them in a very little olive oil and add a bit of lemon juice. Yum!
Inez
My favorite green is KALE! I make a Green Smoothie with 4-6 cups of kale, 4-5 cups of spinach , 4 carrots, 1 cup blueberries, 1 orange, 1 apple, & about 3 cups of water. Put everything in a Vita-Mix. You have 2-32 oz smoothies! I drink 1 today & the other tomorrow!
kash
I love dinosaur kale more than anything (and am so sad it doesn’t exist where I live). I like it steamed with a bit of olive oil and lemon juice, and as the wrapper for summer spring rolls, and, well, pretty much however. The more of it I can taste, the better!
Kerry Tadique
Swiss chard in scrambled eggs is yummy but our all-time favorite is baked kale chips. My 3 and 5 year olds LOVE them!
Dayna
Spinach sauteed with apple cider vinegar, garlic, and lemon juice 🙂
Erin
Spring greens are my favorite. I like cooking them simply – I saute onion in olive oil and then add the greens and a touch of red pepper flakes. It comes out sweet and slightly spicy and delicious!
Erin
It’s so hard to choose! Ahead by just a leaf for me is kale. I love it in raw kale salads made with a fresh citrus dressing with carrots, beets, red onion and avocado or prepared steamed with a fabulous vegan mole sauce and black beans.
Mari k
Fresh spinach in salad and stir fried spinach with garlic
Peggy
I have soooo many favourite leafy greens. I am a vegetarian and I like ALL vegetables and I’m up to trying new things 🙂
I love kale chips, roasted in the oven for 10 minutes with a bit of olive oil (I know, not fat free) with a sprinkle of sea salt and pepper.
One of my favourite dishes is steamed broccoli rab tossed in orzo with garlic and hot pepper flakes 🙂
I’m getting hungry and it’s only 5am lol.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter the cookbook draw 🙂
Sincerely,
Peggy
Barbara Wither
I am overseas working for the DOD and have to travel a lot. As airplane food is mainly inedible, one of the things I like to take along is a Swiss Chard wrap using the leaves as the wrap and filling it with humous and other fresh veggies. Yum! And a great and simple way to use greens…..
Sarah
My favorite green is Kale which I love to throw into my blender to make green smoothies!
Elizabeth LaRose
What beautiful photos! I love putting kale, and alot of it, into my “chilli” pot.
Debi
Hands down … it’s kale. I have this wonderful kale salad recipe that I take to nearly every church potluck and rarely bring any home, except little leaf crumbs in the bottom of the bowl. I even make my own dressing to put on the salad so that I know exactly what’s in it. I’m experimenting with making some changes in the dressing to eliminate the EV olive oil.
Michele Magnano
I am interested in winning a copy of the book Wild about Greens. My favorite green is collard greens. I love to use them as wraps.
Alexandra
I saute greens with scallions, garlic and raisins in a little soy sauce. The book looks beautiful, and I could use inspiration.
Vicki Portch
I love sweet potatoe, I love to have it warmed on top of home made coleslaw or warmed and stirred through brown rice and other vegtables yum yum.
Erika
Sadly, it’s just kale chips (hence the reason why I need a book on greens to expand my repertoire).
Marsha A.
This cookbook looks awesome. My favorite is Kale. I like to make a kale salad with avacado.
kay
I am trying to adopt a plant based diet. The hardest part of the diet is not giving up meat, cheese or diary, it is getting the sufficient number of greens into the diet. My solution is a green smoothie first thing in the morning. That way I don’t stress about it all day, would love having the new cookbook.