Pop C Kale Salad

I called this the Pop C salad because it has pear, olives, peach, clementine. 

Layer as you desire:

1 Cup Kale, ripped to bite size

1 pear, cored, chopped

1 peach, cored, chopped

1 clementine, peeled, sectioned

6 olives, black, sliced

1.5 Tbsp dressing (balsamic vinegar and olive oil) (Safeway Select)

Rated 4.6 on the Kale Scale.

Papaya Cantaloupe Kale

Salad #3 from the Bevy of Salads.

Layer or mix as you see fit.

1.15 Cup Kale, ripped to bite size pieces

1 papaya, medium size, peeled, seeded, chopped

20 melon balls, cantaloupe

25 red grapes, halved

2 Tbsp olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing (Safeway Select)

Rated a 4.39 on the Kale Scale. Next time I don't think I'll mix these two orange fruits because their flavors are not enough distinct from each other.

Sweet Kale Salad

2nd of the 3 salads that I couldn't get on the post Bevy of Salads

Layer or mix these ingredients as you see fit.
1 Cup Kale, ripped to pieces
1 Red Pear, cored, peeled, chopped
1 Nectarine, cored, chopped
1 Clementine, peeled, sectioned
10 Cherries, pitted and halved
2 Tbps olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing (Safeway Select)

I've added a pix to show that I just pile it on top of the kale these days. It gets mixed up as I stab some fruit and pick up some kale with it.

Rated a 4.5 on the Kale Scale.

A Bevy of Salads

I've been saving these up. Three new salads I've had over the last week.  I am unable to get them all on this post with their pictures - too much of a hassle to get graphics positioned. So instead, there will be 3 posts in rapid succession.

All of these have been made with purple kale. I don't know if you get nutritional bonus points for having a purple leafy green, but I think it should count for something!

GRO Salad as in Green Red Orange

Layer or mix these ingredients as you see fit.

1 Cup Kale, ripped to pieces

1 Nectarine, cored, chopped

1 Red Plum, cored, chopped

1 Apricot, cored, chopped
1 Kiwi, peeled, chopped
2 Tbps olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing (Safeway Select)

Rated a 4.5 on the Kale Scale

Two Salads

 Two nights, two salads.

Kale Fruit Chicken Salad

I first spiced some chx breast strips by shaking them in a bag with pepper, paprika, coriander, cardamon, cinnamon, and za'atar a Mid-Eastern spice mix based in thyme, which I got at Barbur World Foods. I found this store a neat place to shop; lots of new things - including Lavash, but that has nothing to do with Kale, so you can look that up on your own, too. After the chx is dusted with spices, I stir fried them and set aside. I only used, in the salad, 2 oz of the 8 oz of chx strips.

Layer from the bottom up:

1 cup Kale, chopped to bite size pieces. Tonight, used Lacinato Kale.

1 kiwi fruit, skinned, chopped up

1 plum, red, chopped up.

1/3 of a big yellow sweet pepper, cut into big pieces that could be poked with a fork.

2 Tbsp olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing (Safeway Select; no sugar added)

Top with 2 oz of the spiced, cooked chicken breast.

Rated a 4.75 on the Kale Scale.

Pluot and Kale Salad      I used a big pluot which is a cross between a plum and apricot. More plum than 'cot. There is no nutrition info available yet for pluots, so I used Plum when figuring the calories.

Layer from the bottom up:
1 cup Kale, chopped to bite size pieces. Used Purple Kale in this salad.
1 Pluot, cut up
1 clementine, cut up
10 cherries, pitted and halved
2 Tbsp olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing (Safeway Select; no sugar added)


Rated a 4.74 on the Kale Scale.

Pear Kiwi Kale Topped Asagio Cheese

The cheese was an experiment. Worked ok, and would be even better with a pear or apple instead of the peach.

Layer from the bottom up:

 1.25 Cups of Kale, ripped to bite size. It was purple kale.

1 peach, diced

1 kiwi, peeled and diced

1 oz of asagio cheese, diced

Dress with 2 Tbsp Balsamic and Olive Oil dressing (Safeway Select)

Rated a 4.4 on the Kale Scale.