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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Robbie
Kale chips!! I just spray pieces of Kale with a tiny bit of canola oil, add salt and bake. Yummy
Lizabet Nix
Kale is my favorite. My newest go to recipe is Massaged Kale Salad with Lemon Tahini Dressing. I go light on the tahini and east it in a wrap as a treat.
I would love to own Nava’s book.
Kate
though i definitely love all greens, I wound up with a small laminated recipe for an amazing and simple “garlicky kale” raw salad with a tahini based dressing, that was originally from a whole foods’ “prepared food” department… it calls for “a case” of kale, and a few pounds of tahini, haha – i just scale it back, and make it as often as possible! thank you, susan!
connie
Brussel sprouts roasted chips or kale chips are so very yummy! Hope I get the opportunity to win. Love your recipes!
Keri
Kale would definitely have to be my favorite leafy green. I enjoyed it in Portuguese Kale Soup growing up, but this includes chourico traditionally. Now that I no longer eat meat I enjoy it in the Fat Free Vegan North African Kale & Chickpea soup!
Michelle Morrison
I love spinach with zucchini, onion, and portobella mushroom in a whole wheat tortilla.
Crissy
Kale steamed with sea salt or sautéed with corn, mushrooms, onions, garlic, red bell pepper, crushed red pepper, black pepper and brags amino acids.
Debyi
My favorite leafy green is definitely kale! I love kale! I eat kale chips, kale salads, put it in my soups and smoothies. I have it almost every day, can’t get enough. Love collards too, they make great wraps, smoothies, salads and good in soups too 🙂
Martina
I love kale in my smoothies! Yum 🙂
Robean
this is my very first post ever! I was super excited to see this contest. I love,love,love your website. I scan through it everyday. I am new to being vegan and have found your site super helpful and yummy! I love kale but would enjoy learning new ways to cook with leafy greens. I find grilling recipes for leafy greens interesting too.
Hayley
Kale!!!! Raw in a salad or sprayed with olive oil spray and a pinch of salt- baked until crispy thin chips. Yum.
Cheers!
Sarah
My favorite green is definitely kale. I usually steam it and then toss in a cashew sauce. Yum!
Jared
I love kale sauteed with lemon and old bay.
manda
Kale, for sure. I like to make massaged kale salads and add it to sweet potato lentil soup!
marilyn
Oh. My. I guess I have to narrow it down to spinach…especially when piled into Nava’s fabulous chili recipe I found on your blog…a weekly standard now. And contest aside – thank you so much for your recipes which have turned my vegetable-phobic husband into a man who loves spinach salad with your fat free vinaigrette dressing. Actually, anything with that dressing on it! Ha. And we revere your skillet gardener’s pie among so many other favorites…thanks so much!
julayne
beautiful photos! beautiful book! i have been harvesting a variety of wonderful greens from my garden this spring so it’s hard to pick just one. i do like using a variety of different greens in green smoothies! spinach and kale are favorites. i’ve even use arugala!
peace,
julayne
Michelle
kale – stir fried with mushrooms and garlic – a recipe I got from Appetite for Reduction – it is absolutely delicious!
Barbara Neal
I like to use kale and spinach for juicing and smoothies. And, of course, spinach salad is wonderful.
Jo Ann Glover
I love sautéed Swiss Chard. I sauté it in walnut oil, garlic slices, salt pepper, a tiny bit of nutmeg. Sometimes I throw in some sliced mushrooms!
LyndallKay
I luv to bake my Kale with other veg & make it into a casserole xXx
Darcy Faylor
Kale! I love it sauted with some minced garlic and red pepper flakes. Finish off with a little vinegar and gobble it up! Yum!
Susan Mcallister
Bok Chou in a stir fry. Yum.
Bert
I realize this will not be original, but I do really love kale. I don’t know that I have any favorite way to prepare it, but I probably consume it the most in my morning vegetable juice, I also always have a container full of kale chips in the pantry for snacking and routinely use it in soups and stews!
Nanette
Kale is my current favourite green, but the only green thing I cannot abide is a Brussel Sprout – and they are easily avoided. I think this looks to be a beautiful book and as someone very new to eating vegan, I need all the help I can get!
Caroline
Kale! Massaged and incorporated into salads 🙂 …getting my parents to eat more leafy greens…:)
Ann
My husband and I LOVE kale that has been steamed with sauted onions, garlic and mushrooms. After the kale has been steamed I finish it off with the best Balsamic vinegar I can afford and eat it like crazy. It was the first thing I made after our five month medical mission trip to West Africa where we spent time taking care of poor people in Togo and living on the hospital ship. For missionaries we couldn’t complain about the lifestyle since we had air conditioning, running water and flushing toilets – but we were so tired of the food! Everything had meat in it and although we had salad it was the same lettuce, the same tomatoes and the same cucumbers every day. Most of the other vegetables were canned or way over cooked. So – I’d LOVE a copy of your cookbook to not only cook out of but to drool over! You can read more about our adventure on the boat in my blog on the website. Congratulations on your new book!
Leslie Amerman
Picking a favorite green leafy vegetable is like choosing a favorite child! I love them all – chards, bok-choy, spinach, collards, kale – you name it, I haven’t met a green I haven’t at the very least liked but I typically love them all!
I guess if I have to choose one for purposes of this contest, I would choose Kale. I have a recipe for Sweet & Savory Kale that I absolutely love. This recipe has such a nice balance, it includes onion, garlic, dijon mustard, a bit of sugar or agave, cider vinegar, vegetable broth, cranberries and it’s topped with sliced almonds. It’s a bit of heaven and perfect for the warmer seasons. It is great served alongside grilled mushrooms.
Of course, my other go to kale recipe is FFV Hot Skillet Salad – yum!! When fall rolls back around I will be making that one again.
Krista Bowers
It is a toss up between Kale and Collards for my favorite…I love them both SO much! I suppose that I will choose Collards. To fix them I sautee garlic and onions in olive oil until they are almost crisp (to simulate the bacon that saturated the dish I grew up eating in the South). I wash the greens and cut them into strips, then add them to the garlic and onion (while still wet). After a few minutes, making sure that the greens are fully coated with oil, I add some water and continue to cook them uncovered until tender, but still bright green. I serve them with hot “pepper sauce” (peppers from my garden steeped in vinegar)freshly-ground black pepper and coarsely-ground Real Salt.
Stacee
Hi Susan,
Count me in!
Antoinette Chambers
Hi!
We have been enjoying your site for a few months now and must say that your recipes consistently pass approval in our family of five. Our newest green is kale. Last summer a friend gave us some kale, told me how to just steam and season it and it was a great hit! This year we planted kale and rhubarb kale, just for fun! So, our recipe? Steam lightly, Becel Vegan Margarine, salt and pepper. Devine. Can hardly wait for fall.
Antoinette
Roisin
Arugula! In a big salad.
Patti
I love all greens, I am currently growing rainbow chard in a raised bed and keep plucking the chard leaves to add to my crazy and fun flower arrangements tho… Guess you would prefer we eat them too so you can stir chard into any hot veggie soup or stir fry it briefly in a wok with some flavored olive oil, some red onions, and red peppers and whatever other veggies you like and have on hard and then serve it over a bed of farro or a wild rice mix. Don’t forget to lightly toast some pine nuts and sprinkle those over the top before serving.
Verna Peters
Please enter me in the contest for the “Wild About Greens” cookbook. Thanks. Verna
Since kale is such a nutritious vegetable, we decided to use it in a “green smoothie”.
Ingredients:
In a blender (Vita-Mix) combine the following:
1 C soy milk
2-3 ripe bananas
4 heaping tablespoons of milk powder (Better Than Milk powder)
1 heaping teaspoon of carob powder
1 heaping “gob” of peanut butter
1 apple, quartered
1 packet of Stevia
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 – 4 large leaves of kale
ice to thicken and fill container.
Dana Bortz
My favorite recipe is Nava’s Sweet Potato, Kale and Yellow Squash Stew from her ‘Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons’ book! Nava’s Wild About Greens is a beautiful book that enhanced by Susan’s photos. Now, I’m not saying this just for a free book! I have already purchased two of them and, should I win this book, I will give it away as a gift. Thank you, Susan, for your beautiful photos and your gift of a free book!
Laurie Lyell
I had to look twice to see that it was a photo not the real thing! Beautiful!
Spinach, red onion, edamame, walnut, strawberry and sometimes mandarian orange sections salad. the best!
Audrey
I like greens a lot of ways–kale, broccoli, even herbs like basil and mint! I think kale chips rank pretty highly for me. I also love green smoothie and salads (included massaged kale) or just throwing greens in soups.
Rachel
Kale! I like to keep it simple and just steam it, then drizzle it with lemon juice or vinegar.
Rachel
Oh, and I LOVE putting spinach in smoothies! (:
Sara
My favorite leafy green is kale and I juice it almost every morning. I also love kale chips…you just can’t go wrong with either one!
Juniper
I love kale. I stir fry it with a dash of soy sauce and a ponzu-vinegar marinade, then add a liberal sprinkling of freshly ground pepper on top. Yum!
Lauren
I’m leaving a post because yes, I do want to win this cookbook – but also because WOW! what a great idea for a cookbook. I currently have Bok Choy going bonkers in my garden and I would love new ideas for how to prepare it.
However, here are some of my favorite ways to eat greens:
Kale Chips – duh!
Arugula salad with beets and blue cheese (sorry I know that’s not vegan)
Chard sauteed with garlic and lemon juice
Bok Choy sauteed with tons of garlic
Kale Slaw
And then of course any leafy green raw in salads
Jim
I grow my own garden so there is nothing better than picking your own lunch! Today mine included: 3 varieties of kale, swiss chard, various lettuces, Asian greens, arugula with herbs, cucumber, cherry tomato and a homemade raspberry vinagrette without oil. So good, I’ll think tomorrow I’ll do the same!