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Default help on escarole replacement.

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
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>> "Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Jan wrote on 21 Aug 2006 in rec.food.cooking
>> >
>> >> I make a similiar soup using swiss chard, it works very well. I am
>> >> sure
>> >> spinach would do also. Jan
>> >>
>> >
>> > Thanks but on further examination I'm not going with that recipe...well
>> > I'm
>> > changing it a lot ...adding carrot, onion, celery,fennel, some crushed
>> > red
>> > pepper, pepercorns, bay leaf or 3 and increading the sausage, garlic
>> > and
>> > stock amounts... so I figure the spinach is ok since the flavour will
>> > be
>> > totally different anyways.

>>
>> Whoah...lots of conflicting flavors there. I'll predict that the spinach
>> will not stand out at all as a flavor.

>
> I'd use chard personally. I think it'd hold up better texture-wise.
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> Peace!
> Om


Yup.