Summer Gardening e-Log---Amaranth

This is Amaranth.  I took the fancy of putting a bundle of it  in this green bottle as ornament which gives some kind of rest to my tired eyes. 

Amaranth is one species of spinach.  It grows wild in my garden.  I am not quite sure if I ate it when I was young, but I remember eating them when I was at the Adventist University of the Philippines.  It was sold in the market in the campus by one of the students there who encouraged and taught me how to cook it.

Now, I just eat it most of the times as stir fried vegetables with garlic and soy sauce (that's the only way I know how to cook, anyway Lol!).  Tired of eating it this way, I recently made mini and thin spring rolls out of them by microwaving the leaves, squeezing as much water from it then putting in (either mozarella, parmesan, fetta) cheese in it, then rolling them in spring rolls wrapper.  I freeze most of them because I could not eat so much of it as the cheese makes them a bit salty.

One time when my brother Art and his wife came to visit.  I asked his wife to fry some of the spring rolls for our snack.  My brother said it tasted good and ask what was in it and I said it kulitis (the vernacular for Amaranth) that which grow in my backyard and in the railway.  I saw my brother's reaction--something like wanting to spit it out.  To allay his fear,  I informed him our father ate it all his life and despite the cancer, he lived to a full and happy 83 years (laughing in loud inside me, hahaha!).  I added furthermore that my theory because our father ate so much of it, he never had cataracts but in principle sort of still have a 20/20 vision).