Silverbeet - putting some away for later

I didn't plant the silverbeet this summer. It self-seeded, which is always such a treat. When you consider how hard you work to buy seeds, make soil blocks, plant, water, transplant, water, nurture....for something to just arrive in the garden is always a bonus. Unfortunately we're not great lovers of the old silverbeet. I only have one favourite way of eating it - with feta and filo pastry. So, given I wasn't ready to do a whole lot of baking at the moment, I decided to store some away in the freezer. It was washed, steamed, chopped, weighed (I managed three packages of around 585g), then off to the freezer it went.

It is a mixture of the ruby stemmed and white stemmed silverbeet.


Ready for steaming



Cooling, draining then waiting to be chopped. You can just see the hint of the next batch in the sink next door.


Not sure why I weighed it...