FRESH SPINACH RECIPES

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No one having even the tiniest garden should ever have to buy spinach in the summer months. In our mild South African climate we can enjoy spinach benefits year round. On another page we'll show you how to grow spinach - after radish it has to be the easiest vegetable to grow.

A 3'x3' (one square metre) will keep you in fresh spinach recipes. Seriously, pull out some of the straggly daisies, a spinach patch is actually very attractive in any front garden. Mine above, after picking those twenty plus leaves, has got a little untidy; I should have cut off those yellowing leaves before taking this pic! A chore for this morning.

Today we give you two of our favourite fresh spinach recipes, first a soup and then a salad.

Creamed Spinach recipes SOUP

INGREDIENTS

1. A LARGE bunch of mature spinach leaves
2. One large potato
3. One large onion
4. Garlic
5. Chicken bones boullion
6. Half an avocado (optional)

Pick a large bunch of mature spinach leaves

Make sure there are no frogs or other creepy-crawlies lurking... otherwise you might like me end up with a frog in YOUR throat. Here is the Frog in my throat ...

Oops, left out the potato, but fortunately we had some mashed potato left over from last night. Don't you forget the potato!

EASY ...

1. Fill a small pot with your frozen chicken bones, and cover with boiling water.
2. Simmer for at least half an hour, preferably longer. I like to do two extractions.
Chicken bones bouillon, vital for arthritis sufferers...








3. We cheat a little by slicing off the stalks with a quick flick with a sharp knife. The dogs get the stalks... nothing wrong with them, just makes your creamed spinach recipes a little smoother.
4. You need a lot of leaves, they boil down to almost nothing. Spinach benefits - they are mostly water, fibre, and packed full of phytosterols and minerals like magnesium.

Spinach is the richest sources of magnesium, vital if you don't want to get chronic arthritis. Chronic arthritis like this under the kneecap is caused by a magnesium deficiency. PATELLO FEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME ...



• What are PHYTOSTEROLS ? and why are they so important.
  
  






5. Chop the onions and fry for a few minutes in butter or olive oil. Why not in margarine or sunflower oil?
HYDROGENATED FOODS ...


6. Peel and slice the potato and toss it into the pot.

7. Pour the chicken bones stock into the pot, and refill with more boiling water for a second extraction of the glucosamine, so good for your cartilage. HYALINE CARTILAGE ... the second most important page at Chiropractic Help. The first?
   
   
8. Turn up the stove onto high, until it's boiling hard.
9. Add your spinach leaves. Put on the lid and boil fairly hard of ten minutes. Now you know how to cook spinach too!











10. Remove from the stove and wait for the spinach soup to stop boiling.
11. Add your half avocado and blend.





Wow, doesn't that look great? It TASTES fantastic!

EYES

I went to the optician yesterday for a new prescription of reading glasses. In passing I asked him what nutrition was particularly good for eyes? "Spinach and broccoli," said he. When I go to collect my specs I must remember to ask him why those two veg in particular.







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Creamed spinach recipes

Now depending on your blood cholesterol, you can add a dollop of cream or yoghurt. If you follow the recipes at this site, I can promise you you'll soon be off those nasty statins. FOODS THAT LOWER CHOLESTEROL NATURALLY...



Salt and pepper, of course, to taste, and if you have a tendency to a hiatus hernia (GERD - Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease), then make sure you finish your beer (or any liquid), and wait for a few minutes before tucking into your soup.

If you suffer from indigestion at night, then don't have any bread or rolls with your spinach soup. INDIGESTION HEARTBURN ...









FRESH SPINACH SALAD RECIPES

For your spinach soup use the mature leaves, even if they are slightly woody. But for your other fresh spinach recipes, you really want the tender young leaves. You are going to enjoy them raw.

Raw food has the big advantage that the enzymmes aren't denatured by the cooking. They are very heat-labile. I'm not (quite) that crazy but health nuts believe you should enjoy half your food raw. They've got a point. FRESH SPINACH SALAD RECIPES

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