Talk:New Zealand spinach/@comment-74.194.90.254-20150605181245

I'm 74 years old and grew up in the forties before homemakers thought of steaming or stir frying vegetables. Everything was boiled until tired and grey. Like most kids I didn't like spinach. It had and acid flavor when cooked and no one, in those days, thought of eating it fresh in salads where it retains it's sweeter side. I love to garden and one day I remembered that I had eaten New Zealand spinach when I was a kid, and liking it. I hadn't seen it in the stores in years and because I liked it I occasionally watched for it in the produce section, but, to no avail. One day in my local nursery I asked them if they had ever heard of it. They found it for me among heirloom seeds. I planted a small patch and thought it would never come up, but, when it did, it was beautiful. It's hardy and easy to harvest. I just cut as I would a flower...just above a smaller leaf branch which produces another stem. It just goes on and on. Not too good raw (to my taste), but sweeter than our usual spinach when steamed or saute'd.