You may or may recall that one of my personal goals for this year was to learn to eat (and enjoy) kale, the ultimate nutritional powerhouse vegetable. Kale is a strong and frilly leafy green. Its flavor is bold and a bit bitter, and its texture is tough, almost rubbery. Kale makes most lettuce look like wilted onion layers. For these reasons, kale can be intimidating to many, but kale fans rave about it, so I had to find out what all the buzz was about.
I started out by putting some in my favorite everyday salad. Sometimes I use half kale, half spinach, other times entirely kale! It’s quite good with all the vegetables and homemade dressing, once I let it sit for five or ten minutes to marinate and soften.
Ah, but now a wonderful new world has been opened to me by the vegan Twitter community: the world of easy, homemade, vegan “junk” food. I’m talking, of course, about kale chips. I threw a batch of them together on impulse before heading to work yesterday, and we devoured them all within minutes. Kale chips are more compulsively eatable than popcorn or potato chips. You can flavor them just about any way you like, I imagine, and since they’re made out of kale, you can actually pat yourself on the back (with your seasoning-covered fingers) for munching on them!
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