Kale with Neighborly Sugar Snap Peas

Oh boy. Brussel sprouts and asparagus - neither one my favorite. But that's what was available in the fridge. And then, a ray of sunshine, here came neighbor Ann-Marie knocking at the door to give me a bounty of sugar snap peas from their garden!  These nicely balanced out the meal - yeah!

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
2 brussel sprouts, chopped

Add and continue saute
3 asparagus spears, diced
6 cherry tomatoes, halved
6 green olives (castelvetrano), halved
1 oz white wine
1/4 tsp turmeric
1 tsp ras el hanout

Add, cover and wilt as desired
1.25 cups kale, ripped to bite size
1/4 cup sugar snap peas, diced
1-2 tsp splash of balsamic vinegar


Mix up veggies. Move to edges of pan.  Add and scramble into the veggies:
1whole egg, mixed with 1 egg white, beaten
1/2 tsp black pepper

Serve with 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce


Rated a 4.67 on the Kale Scale

Kale Scamble with Brussel Sprouts Pepper, and Parmesan

Great mix of veggies and protein for dinner - very good!

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
2 brussel sprouts, chopped
1 sweet red pepper, diced
1/2 tsp cardamon
1/2 tsp black pepper

Add, cover and wilt Kale
1 cup Kale, ripped up to bite size pieces
2 tbsp white wine
2 tsp balsamic vinegar
3 tbsp orange juice

Add and scramble
2 eggs, beaten with 2 tbsp milk
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp turmeric

Serve with 
3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese

 Rated a 4.54 on the Kale Scale

Kale Ham with Gorgonzola and Persimmons

Deeeelicious!!

Saute
1/2 cup Onion, chopped
2 brussel sprouts, chopped
1.5 tsp olive oil

Add and keep saute
2 persimmons (Japanese), cored, cut up, with peel intact
2.5 oz ham cutlet (precooked kind), diced


Add, lower heat, simmer, wilt the kale and reduce liquid
1+ cup Kale, ripped to bite size pieces
1 tsp Baharat (a middle eastern spice mix)
1/4 cup pomegranate juice (100% juice)

Add and scramble
1 beaten egg
1/2 tsp ground pepper

At the end, add and mix, melt the cheese
1 Tbsp gorgonzola cheese

Mix it all up and serve. Enjoy!


Rated a 4.74 on the Kale Scale.

Kale with Egg and Popping Seeds

A quick thrown together meal. It turned out to be pretty good!  I am using purple kale this week. It looks dark in the picture. But, purple food is good for you food!

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 cup onion, cut up
1 brussel sprout, cut up
1 tsp Shiba's Popping Seeds



Add, cover and wilt the kale, as desired (2-5 min)
1/2 cup almond milk
1.5 Tbsp date crumbles from Bob's Red Mill
1.25 cups purple kale, cut up finer than usual

After the kale is wilted, and all is mixed up, spread apart and put in the middle
1 egg, beaten with 1/3 cup almond milk

After the egg sets a bit, scramble it all up and serve.

Sprinkle with a bit of Worcestershire sauce.

Enjoy!


Rated a 4.65 on the Kale Scale.

Sweet and Savory Kale

Getting to the end of the week and cleaning out the miscellaneous from fridge. Turned out to be very tasty - the pear and persmisson were a good match for the brussel sprouts.

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1/4 cup fennel bulb, chopped
1 fingerling potato, chopped
3 brussel sprouts, chopped

After a bit add and continue saute, lower heat and cover
1 red pear, cored and cut up
1 persimmon, cored and cut up (keep the peel on)
1 oz white wine
2 tsp white balsamic vinegar
1 tsp ras el hanout
1/4 tsp cardamon
1/4 tsp coriander
2 veggie patties (Morningstar), cut up

Steam in microwave
1+ cup of kale

Pile the sweet and savory mix on top of the steamed kale and enjoy!


Rated a 4.79 on the Kale Scale.

Mashed Squash with Shiba's Popping Seeds

Shiba's Popping Seeds formed the basis for my experiment to night. This new spice is something I picked up at the grocery store this week. The seeds are a mix of cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, bishop seeds, nigella seeds, fennel, dill seeds.  This was a great mashed side dish!

Saute til seeds' aroma is wafting
2 tsp olive oil
1 tsp Popping Seeds

Add and continue til almost done
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1 brussel sprout, chopped
1 fingerling potato, sliced fine
1/4 cup fennel bulb, chopped

Add and mash
3/4 cup acorn squash, pre-cooked (using one I cooked up this weekend)
1/3 cup soy milk

Add, mix everything up and continue simmer, lower heat
1 oz white wine
1 Tbsp fig balsamic vinegar
1/4 tsp turmeric ground

Steam in microwave
1+ cup kale, ripped to bite size pieces

Add kale to the Popping Seeds mix, and stir it all up.

Serve and enjoy!

Rated a 4.77 on the Kale Scale

Cider and Mustard Spiced Kale

This turned out to be really good! Finally, autumn and cool weather - no bother from the heat that comes from using the stove top.  The turmeric and mustard gave this side dish a nice fall glow.

Saute
 2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
2 brussel sprouts, chopped
2 fingerling potatoes, sliced thin

Add, and simmer to reduce the cider
6 oz hard cider
1 black plum, cut up
1 tsp Gulden's Brown Spiced Mustard
1/2 tsp black pepper, ground
1/2 tsp turmeric, ground
1/2 tsp Mrs Dash

Steam in microwave, 2 minutes
1+ cup Kale, ripped up to bite size

Serve
Place the cider mustard veggie mix on top of the steam kale.

Rated a 4.76 on the Kale Scale

Date Crumbles Tame Brussel Sprouts with Kale

The weather turned autmun like - yeah!  I can get back to making Kale side dishes on the stove stop.  I found that pineapple works well to make brussel sprouts palatable, but no pineapple today. What to do? I looked around and found some date crumbles I have from Bob's Red Mill - they have no added sugar, and are dusted with oat flour.

Soak
1/4 cup date crumbles in couple Tbsp of water. Set aside.

Saute
1/3 cup onion, chopped up
 2 tsp olive oil

Add and continue saute
1 red pepper, cut up
2 brussel sprouts, cut up

Add and simmer a bit
Dated crumbles and the water they were soaked in.
1 Tbsp Fig Balsamic vinegar
1 Tbsp white wine

Add, cover and wilt
1-2 cups kale, ripped to bite size pieces (I ended up with about 2 cups today!)
Another 1 Tbsp of white wine and bit of water to keep the steam coming

Mix it all up an serve with a splash of Worcestershire sauce


Rated a 4.73 on the Kale Scale.

Cabbage, Sprouts and Kale with Olives and Cheese

Made this to go with a halibut steak. Putting pineapple together with tomato - not sure I'd to that again. This wasn't a favorite.

Saute:
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 cup Onion, chopped
2 brussel sprouts, chopped
1/2 cup red Cabbage, chopped
1/4 tsp ras el hanout
1/4 tsp ground coriander

After a bit, add and continue to saute
1/3 cup Pineapple, raw, diced
10 grape tomatoes, halved
8 green, pitted, castelvetrano olices, halved
1/3 cup soy milk

Add and cover
1 cup Kale, ripped to bite size pieces, and wilt in the steam of the soy milk

Top with
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1-2 tsp grated parmesan cheese

Rated a 3.5 on the Kale Scale.

Kale with Broccolini and Brussel Sprouts

Started out thinking I didn't have any kale tonight, and given that what was the next best thing - brussel sprouts... not the next best thing, like a favorite, but the next best thing nutrition wise. After more than a year of this, I can say that I like kale better than something ... brussel sprouts!

After I got everything going, simmering, I remembered - I froze some kale before my last vacation in October!  I pulled that out of the freezer, and voila - another kale concoction was created.

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped up
3 brussel sprouts, chopped up
1 small sweet red pepper, chopped up

After a bit, add
2/3 cup pineapple, raw, unsweetened, chopped up
1/2 cup broccolini florets
2-3 Tbsp water or other liquid
Dashes of each - chili powder, ground pepper, turmeric, Mrs Dash

Serve with
2-3 Tbsp non-fat greek yogurt, plain
1-2 tsp dukkah
1-2 tsp parmesan cheese, grated
1 tsp worcestershire sauce


Rated a 4.59 on the Kale Scale

Hotsy Totsy Steamed Kale

Quick and easy this was. The hotsy totsy part is adding 1/8 to 1/4 tsp of chili powder to this concoction. But that paired nicely with the pineapple and Ras El Hanout.

Steam 1.5 minutes in microwave:

2 brussel sprouts, cut up
1/2 cup pineapple chunks, cut up
1 clementine, peeled and segmented, those cut in half
4 green onions, white part sliced thin
1 oz white wine
1/2 tsp Ras El Hanout
1/8 to 1/4 tsp chili powder
2 tsp dukkah (the Egyptian nut crumbles)

Add, and steam 2 minutes more in microwave:

1+ cup kale, purple and green, ripped to bite size pieces.

Serve and dust with a bit more dukkah.

Rated a 4.65 on Kale Scale

Sweet Potato Kale Redo with Brussel Sprouts

Working with the leftovers from yesterday's recipe. I added 2 brussel sprouts, chopped up, to 1 serving of Sweet Potato with Fresh Kale. Instead of putting the serving on top of fresh kale on a plate, I mixed the kale in with the leftover serving, and heated it all in the microwave for 2 minutes.  I'm doing a picture, mostly to document, indeed, that bright green is brussel sprout parts.

Added a Tbsn of white wine and a bit of water to help wilt the kale and heat it all as it was being cooked.

Rated a 4.6 on the Kale Scale.

Kale with Pineapple and Brussel Sprouts #2

This is merely a variation on the previous entry with pineapple and brussel sprouts. This one, I added the kale to saute, covered and wilted it with steam from some wine that I added. This was a nice complement to a hunk of wild salmon that I had for dinner.

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1/4 cup, anise or fennel bulb, chopped
2 leeks, sliced

Add and continue saute
 6 brussel sprouts, chopped up some
1/2 cup pineapple chunks, chopped a bit more
1 tsp Ras El Hanout
1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Add, cover and wilt
1 oz white wine
1 cup kale, ripped up bite size pieces

Serve.

Rated a 4.7 on the Kale Scale

Brussel Sprouts Hidden in Kale

My plan was to spice the brussel sprouts so that you wouldn't really notice them. It worked!  This concoction I had with a little salmon steak. Delicious!

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 C onion, chopped
1/2 C fennel bulb, chopped
4 brussel sprouts, chopped up

As it sautes, sprinkle with spice mix of:
1 tsp curry powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cardamon
1/4 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp black pepper

Stir that around, and then add to the saute
1 sweet red pepper, chopped
2 oz white wine

While this sautes steam 1 cup kale.
Add the kale to the mixture, stir and turn.

Serve with
2 oz non-fat plain greek yogurt


Rated a 4.68 on the Kale Scale.

Kale, Sprouts and Za'artar Chicken

The basis for this kale mix is another za'artar spiced chicken recipe. The boneless chicken was pan fried in spices of cinnamon, pepper, za'atar, hot paprika, oregano, coriander, Mrs Dash, with some balsamic vinegar, olive oil and bit of water simmering the last few mintes.

I used 4 oz of this chicken in the kale recipe. I sauted the onion and brussel sprouts in the same pan that cooked with chicken, using the leftover juices. Bearing this in mind, the nutrition count include this 1 serving of chicken, and I counted 1 tsp of olive oil although I didn't add anything to the pan when starting the kale mix.

Saute, in the pan leavings from za'artar chicken
1/4 cup onion, chopped
1/3 cup red cabbage, chopped
3 brussel sprouts, chopped
4 castle verrano olives, pitted, halved
4 kalamata olives, pitted, halved
4 oz of za'atar chicken (recipe #6 from my collection)
3 Tbsp pomegranate mango juice

Add a bit of water if needed to get steam, cover and wilt as desired
1 cup purple kale, ripped to bite size pieces


Rated a 4.7 on the Kale Scale