Kale is awesome in all forms. In soups, as crisps, stewed and everything else!
Hilarious joke bro! Do you do stand up?
Kale crisps soooo goooooood
Idk why people use coconut oil for things like that when olive oil is tastier, healthier, and, at least where I’m at, cheaper. I get the smoke point thing, but that’s not relevant for use cases like that.
It’s my understanding that when used for frying coconut oil actually creates less of the harmful byproducts of being heated then eat olive oil does
That’s the smoke point thing I mentioned.
See my understanding of coconut oil is it’s a better substitute for lard or shortening because 1. it’s unsaturated fat rather than saturated fat and 2. it’s not hydrogenated. It’s a vegetable oil that’s solid at room temperature, which is why you see it used in packaged baked goods a lot, because in the words of Alton Brown, “It’ll stay moist and unctuous while having the shelf life of uranium.”
It does have saturated fat though. Rule of thumb, the lower the temperature at which a fat goes solid, the more saturated it is. But the solid texture can be helpful when replacement other solid fats, true!
Huh, I’ve been working under the impression this whole time that coconut oil is made of monounsaturated fat. That impression comes from watching some cooking shows that one time and thus might be incorrect.
Another thing about coconut oil compared to lard: You don’t have to take a band saw to a pig in order to make it.
It’s absolutely healthier than animal fat, never mind the lack of cruelty! I wasn’t too sure anymore after your comment, so I looked it up, and it seemed that yeah, pretty saturated. I personally just use margarine even though it’s trans fats, because the amount I use won’t harm me much and it doesn’t require animals or being shipped from overseas. A little coconut oil definitely won’t kill you either!
kale is and will always be bird food. it is unfair to kale to judge it as human food, that was never its purpose.
Kale is delish!
Gotta cook it more. And add a small mountain of garlic
Of course kale is going to taste like shit if you dont properly cook it. Boil it in salted water with potatoes, strain it, mix it with olive oil and garlic and serve it with chicken.
And then throw the kale in the trash
Here in Germany cook its for hours in vegetable broth with Mettwurst and Pinkel (sausages), bacon and onions, then its eaten with potatos and Kassler (smoked pork chop).
And I cannot be in a house where it is cooked. It smells so terrible.
skill issue
This does not appear to be well known: kale really needs colder temperatures in order to taste best. It’s sweetest when it has been through a frost or two. Unfortunately that’s not always maximally profitable for Huge Giant Corporate farms and so your kale is grown in warmer temperatures and tends to be bitter.
On the plus side, it’s incredibly easy to grow yourself.
Kale jummy
As a Portlander, this is blasphemy
Garlic, motherfucker, do you use it!?
(Love kale and the weird little mutants called kalettes. If you don’t use any aromatics or seasoning though, you’re gonna have a bad time)
Tbf I just think it’s not up to me to redeem something by adding more flavor to it. Either it brings something to the table itself or it can just go (to the trash can)
I like kale chips
I came here to say that, but you got here first, so have my upvote. :)
Recipe:
- bucket of kale leaves, shredded by hand, rinsed
- half a lemon’s juice
- some teaspoons of salt
- several tablespoons of deactivated / roasted / nutritional yeast
- some teaspoons of your favourite spices (garlic / onion / paprica / tumeric / anything goes)
To be mixed in a huge bowl and laid out into 2 food dryers. Sorry, I don’t have exact quantities, I always use both of my food driers. I run them at +70 C.
Kale salad is pretty good too. Chopped up kale with broccoli crowns, blueberries, carrots , red onion sunflower seeds, and a pomegranate dressing.
Kale is great when mixed with smashed potatoes in a giant pan with some bacon or sausage.
I don’t think I’d ever had kale. But in theory doesn’t it work the same as lettuce? Just to be a vessel for huge globs of dressing?
Kale is a lot tougher. I honestly prefer kale stir fry over cabbage stir fry and in salads.
Also kale chips.
Unfortunately, kale has become a super food so it’s been kinda expensive.
Thankfully, It’s also pretty easy to grow if you have a row available
Kinnnda, but if you treat it like lettuce you’ll be disappointed. It’s a lot chewier. Think of it as in between lettuce and cabbage. Unless you’re just bunging it in a soup you probably have to do a little more work on it.
I like to “massage” when eating eating raw. That’s where you strip the leaves off the stalks and vigorously kneed and scrunch those up with your hands until they’re soft to the touch.
Then you can throw in whatever dressing you like. Toasted sunflower seeds and dried cranberries are good at this stage, to really emphasise the toothiness of kale.
It’s also kinda like spinach come to think of it. A lot of the same tricks work on it.
We were out of spinach (admittedly, I hate lettuce so I usually use spinach, instead) so I subbed in kale for my lunch sandwich, one time. I thought it worked alright, though.
Your sandwiches sounds willlld
Kale is quite more fibrous, it’s better cut in strips and blanched in salted water, then it gets softer. I quite like the taste, it’s a great winter vegetable, mixed with diced potatoes and carrots for example
Try a rolling pin on Tuscan Kale. Break down the fibers.
Goes great as a Kale Caesar salad with Blackened Salmon.
oh wow this sounds amazing 🤩
Kale has a very strong, unique taste and is quite chewy.
You don’t add any dressing.
Kale is a vile unholy weed. No leaf vegetable should be able to survive frost like that.
Half of Europe survived the Little Ice Age because of that unholy weed. :)
But it’s so yummy and bitter and good for u 🥺
2 of those 3 things are correct
well it’s only bitter until it’s gone through frost, apparently, so…
It’s not bitter after frost.
