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Love Affairs: Cooking Greens


You'll eat your greens if they're cooked and seasoned to perfection. Once you've done a quick sauté of these nutrition-packed leafy veg, you can fold them into egg dishes, slather them in cream sauce, or add to casseroles. Or even go raw in a smoothie, if you must.

Dandelion

Cooking Greens Varieties

The Lovers

Our greens are polyamorous, flitting from love affair to love affair.
However, they do marry well with the ingredients below.

Oils

Avocado, coconut, olive, peanut, safflower, sunflower seed

Aromatics

Onion, shallot, leek, scallions, garlic

Fresh Mushrooms

Chanterelle, cinnamon cap, cremini, lion’s mane, morel, oyster, king oyster, shiitake, velvet piopinno, white button

Spices

Curry powder, nutmeg, black peppercorns, sumac

Umami

Fresh mushrooms, dried mushrooms, soy sauce, tomatoes, grating cheeses

Zing

Citrus: Lemon, Meyer lemon, preserved lemons

Vinegars: Balsamic, Champagne, red wine, sherry, white wine

Ground Chili Peppers: Aleppo, cayenne, gochugaru, kashmiri, Maraş pul biber, paprika, Hungarian half-sharp paprika, sweet smoked paprika, red pepper flakes