[Sca-cooks] what is silverbeet?

[Sharon Palmer]

>I was reading a recipe for lentil soup at the end of a mystery set 
>in Australia, and came across the ingredient "silverbeet" which you 
>chop the leaves of and cook in soup.  Any suggestions as to which is 
>meant?  Kale? The stuff with the rainbow stems?
>
>Bewildered in Brooklyn
>
>Devra

SIlverbeet is chard, particularly the kind with white stems, although 
the rainbow ones seem to also be called silverbeet.

Ranvaig