I like the taste raw too. It's quite high in oxalates so not for everyday eating but in a salad every now and then, yum. My son likes it cooked, added to a stir fry right towards the end of cooking. Personally, I find the texture, when cooked, rather unpleasant. The red-stemmed variety (Basella rubra), if you can get it, looks great in the garden. Edens sell the seeds and claim it's the red-stemmed one but when my son grew it from their seeds, he only got the white-stemmed variety (Basella alba).

Yes I love the stuff in salads too, and in lasagna, quiche etc. So nice to be able to grow a leafy veg in Qld summer!

The snails sure like mine. I'm going to have to do something about that if I want to get enough for a meal.

When you find out how to do that let us know! Attilla and his hungry hordes is once again on the rampage after only a few days of rain.