As a child I was fond of Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham. I still quote it to describe something undesirable: “I do not like them, Sam I Am.” And when coaxing a recalcitrant person to try a new food, I still ask: “Would you eat them on a boat? Would you eat them with a goat?”
Would you eat them in a house? Would you eat them with a mouse?
My American friends are great lovers of meat, potatoes and sweets, but look with suspicion on anything green. I used to be the same, but long years of vegetarianism have taught me to enjoy my dark leafy greens. In fact, most of my dinners are based on greens, and I feel deprived if I can’t have them several times a week. Lately I have tried the combination of eggs (from happy chickens) and greens. Not only is it delicious, it’s fun to cook, and fast.
Eggs and beet greens. Wash them well, blanch, squeeze out the water, and throw them in the sauté pan, then make four wells, add a pat of butter to each, and put in the eggs. Turn the eggs if desired and top with the cheese of your choice.
Eggs, spinach and roasted cherry tomatoes. Yummy!
Eggs, greens, tomatoes, veggie sausage and goat cheese.
Linnet Moss 
That all looks and sounds delicious! Hungry now …
Thanks! My favorite place to buy eggs from happy chickens (where I can see the chix pecking around outdoors) has just closed down–fooey!
Boo! 😦
Glad for this! Our garden is producing more spinach and kale than we know what to do with, not to mention it’s time to thin the beets this weekend, so more harvestable greens I hate to waste! Looks delicious!
Yes, I love beet greens! This dish would be delicious with spinach, since eggs and spinach are a match made in heaven 🙂
oh and they can also be quickly blanched or even raw whizzed up to a pulp with water and a bit of olive oil and then used as sauce on pasta with bit of garlic and tomatoes, quick home-made green sauce 🙂 yum
Great idea for the sauce, a kind of spinach pesto.
exactly 🙂
oh you can always mix spinach in a salad 🙂 I don’t like it cooked much, unless hidden under mounds of feta, but i can well eat them half with other salad leaves with or without tomatoes and it makes for a v quick lunch to take away 🙂 You could also blanch and freeze and have them when it is out of season, it’s what we used to do with spring greens back home. They freeze really well 🙂
I love it under mounds of feta 🙂 With or without tomatoes!
Oh that looks really nice! And healthy… much more so than the left over Easter egg I’ve just eaten (and am now secretly regretting, but will never confess to…) 🙂
I must have been born on the wrong side of the Atlantic because I share my American cousin’s suspicion of anything green. However, eggs and beet greens. topped with a little cheese looks right up my street and I’m lucky enough to have a farm within walking distance where I can buy eggs from “happy chickens!”.
Oh, lucky you about the chickens. I used to see “my” happy chickens every day when I drove by the organic farm on the way to work. They had their little eggmobiles and everything. It always made me smile.
I could and would certainly go for that! “betty” is so stuck on “our usual” … (without the spinach and/or kale and/or beet greens, etc.). unfortunately, it isn’t easy to abide by the “happy chicken” option around here ~
Greens are an acquired taste, for sure, but somehow I seem to have developed it. Maybe it’s all the iron in that spinach 🙂
I love the look of those roasted tomatoes. Poached eggs in a sauce are great too – we have used tomato sauce with many variations (it goes by the name “shakshouka” these days).
Thank you! We usually do poached eggs as “huevos rancheros” which to me just means cooking them in salsa. That’s another favorite.
Yum, must have this as i’ve been ding mostly salads with all green leaves but it gets boring too and i don’t eat nearly enough eggs 🙂 I just need to find a hard goat cheese which i can find easily