Thursday, March 06, 2008

Kale recipe

Today during work I had an unrelenting urge to eat some kale, which is strange because to the best of my knowledge, I've never eaten kale before. After work, I headed over to the grocery store and bought a head, or a bunch, or a unit of kale, whatever the correct nomenclature happens to be. Having no idea what to do with it at that point, I used some different cookbooks as a reference for preparing the kale and formulated a gameplan.

Kale recipe:

Ingredients: Kale, bacon, garlic, Thai peanut sauce, sunflower seeds, water, serrano pepper

Prepare bacon as normal. Set aside cooked bacon, but save grease. Add garlic and a generous spoonful of Thai peanut sauce to the hot grease. Add chopped kale and serrano pepper to the grease mixture and stir, coating kale leaves before adding half a cup of water. Cover and cook at medium-high heat for 5 minutes. Uncover and cook at medium-high heat until water has evaporated. Cook until kale reaches desired tenderness. Stir in another generous spoonful of Thai peanut sauce, add a handful of sunflower seeds, and crumble bacon over kale. Mix together and serve, or like me, eat an entire plateful by yourself.

It was delicious. It was spicy because of the pepper, flavorful from the peanut sauce and bacon grease, and slightly cruncy from the sunflower seeds. I look forward to trying different things with kale in the future.

2 Comments:

At 2:18 PM, Blogger Warrior Princess said...

Sounds delish, especially the "cook in bacon grease" part. I think you could use kale in kim chee, but don't really know.

 
At 10:47 AM, Blogger Brendan Curran said...

A couple of weeks ago, I cooked up some collard greens in turkey bacon grease and threw in some hot peppers for good measure.

Collard greens take forever to cook, but if you roll them up like cigars and slice them like a carrot, they only take twenty minutes or so before they're ready.

 

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