Grain & Kale

Made this with quinoa instead of kasha tonight:

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/kasha-kale-pancetta

Added chopped ginger to the quinoa pot, which made the dish extra exciting.  Here's a pic of the leftovers portion:

Vegetable Juicing

We got a fancy juicer for Christmas this year.  It's exciting.  We're using it to make vegetable juices with just a hint of fruit to have them be nominally healthier.

Today's juice ingredients:

Here's how it looked as the juice & the waste come out of the device:

We've found that the presence of beets totally governs the color of the juice, while a bit of ginger totally dictates the flavor.

Remade on:

2015-01-12 when our 25lb bag of carrots arrived from grubmarket.com

2015-01-17 in honor of 99 cent kale at the corner store

2015-02-28 for N. by N.

Kale Salad with Radishes and Lemon Dressing

We first experienced this salad when our friends H. & E. brought it to a potluck on a ski weekend.  We asked for the recipe and replicated it, working in H.'s modifications and adding some of our own.

This is the recipe that inspired us: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Kale-Salad-with-Dates-Parmesan-and-Almonds-51137020

Our Modifications:

• no dates
• add radishes
• 3x the dressing
• garlic instead of shallots
• add bacon bits
• add heirloom tomato 
• skip the parmesan

Basically, we changed everything, except for the idea of soaking kale in lemon-honey mixture.

It was delicious!

Remade on:

2014-06-14 for BBQ Sparks w/o bacon

Indian Kale

In keeping up our goal of cooking one dish from each issue of Sunset we receive, we made this:

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/winter-greens-curry-50400000133934/

We used pre-chopped kale from TJ.  The dish did not impress for several reasons:
- the kale stems were still in
- the seasoning was overwhelming and way too sweet

Kale, Sausage, Beans

Tonight we made yet another incarnation of what's becoming our quick weeknight standard:

This stir fry includes:

- kale
- beans
- sausage
- garlic & other spices
- whatever's been kicking around the fridge too long (today it was kalamata olives)

Remade:
01-25-2014 for dinner at David's house - used purple kale
06-08-2014 enhanced with red peppers, lemon juice, and bacon fat:

Kale Chips

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/soy-sesame-kale-chips-50400000121018/

Remade on:

2013 -11-28 for Thanksgiving at the S. household; popular with 3 toddlers

Cooked Salad Improv

This meal was inspired by the purchase of 'Stir Fry Greens' at the farmers' market:

 

Salad Components:

- bag of stir fry greens (kale, chard, related creatures..), de-stemmed
- chicken sausage
- red bell pepper
- hard boiled egg

Dressing Ingredients:

- EVOO
- wine mustard
- lime juice

Fry all the salad ingredients that need frying, preferably in bacon fat.  Swirl dressing together; top salad.

Herby Kale

J cooks for N for V-Day:

Kale, garlic, lemon, rosemary, reggiano cheese, mildly inspired by:
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/kale_with_sausage_and_white_beans/

Paired with roast pork loin and chocolate cake.

Remade on:
2013-04-14 with chard, w/o sausage
2013-06-02 with sausage, w/o stock