Rocking kale

[Guest guest]

I have been going through the cook books on how long to steam the different

greens and omgoddess, they cook them so long! Especially kale. I do three

minutes and love it. The store cuts the stems up to the bottom of the leaves and

so I just chop it all together and steam it. They are tender, toothy, but tender

and delicious. I like the stems and figure they probably have lots of fiber in

them. The idea of using them in a salad sounds like something to try, but I

think I would just blanch them first. But as I said I think I may only like the

lacinato kale (I got to name it finally) and that might be too tough raw. I had

no greens around today for a salad so I used fresh cilantro...I love cilantro

and put in as much as I would have any other green. I loved it. Had cilantro,

tomatoes, avocado, sunflower seeds, and those hard Chinese noodle thingies with

spicy Thai dressing. Yummers. But I know absolutely nothing about chard.

linda

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cronzen

 

 

Kale rocks!

 

I particularly like it chopped raw in place of lettuce in a salad.

 

Some of my favorite combinations:

 

kale, apples, soy nuts (or walnuts), yogurt

kale, tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, onions, garlic, carrots

 

For all the talk of kale being tough, I actually find chard to be tougher.

But maybe that's just because I'm relatively new to the latter and still

haven't gotten the breakoff point for the stems right? Or do I need to

cook the stems longer? (Sorry for the imagery, but with chard, I often

end up with a ball of cud.)

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

" I had no greens around today for a salad so I used fresh cilantro...I

love cilantro and put in as much as I would have any other green. I

loved it. Had cilantro, tomatoes, avocado, sunflower seeds, and those

hard Chinese noodle thingies with spicy Thai dressing. Yummers. But I

know absolutely nothing about chard.

linda "

 

linda,

Cilantro salad is so good! I tried chard tonight for the first time

and it was very good raw and super delicious cooked. An article I read

said that chard is a type of beet that only the leaves and stem are

used.

 

Shelly