It can star in a creamy pasta or casserole, or be the understudy to kale in a spring minestrone. By Tanya Sichynsky Credit...Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Rebecca Jurkevich. For ...

This recipe lends itself well to variations. Try fresh spinach, beet greens or broccoli florets in place of the red chard. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Lightly oil eight 1/2-cup ramekins and place ...

Want to eat more veggies in 2007? Start with these versatile and delicious leafy greens. It looks like a vegetal road map, as the bright-red stalk sends myriad crimson veins throughout the deep-green ...

Chard is a leafy green vegetable that's part of the Chenopodiaceae family (a subfamily of the Amaranthaceae plant family, but in layman's terms, the beet family). Its large and crinkly leaves are ...

Rarely do I come across a garden vegetable with the virtues, vigor and versatility of Swiss chard. This leafy vegetable, which is available in a dazzling assortment of colors like “Neon Lights,” ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... No one is quite sure why the leafy green is called “Swiss” chard, mainly by speakers of English only. Other languages and peoples call it merely “chard” or ...

The goosefoot, or Chenopodiaceae family, includes diverse and nutritious species. Here in Central Texas, we have an edible wild variety of the Goosefoot family called lamb’s quarter (Chenopodium album ...

At my CSA, it's the time of year where I have to make hard decisions — choosing between kale and Swiss chard. It doesn't seem like a hard decision, but it is. I'm standing there, making a split-second ...

Swiss chard is a leafy vegetable that is a great addition to gardens now. It is reliable, productive and should be more commonly planted. An attractive and often colorful plant, some types of Swiss ...

UYou've probably never heard people talk about pie and Swiss chard in the same sentence and neither had I until receiving an e-mail from reader Francis Xavier. Francis, who's been a big fan of the ...