Red Grapes, Red Pepper Kale Saute

Made this to go with a salmon fillet. Was pretty quick, and tasty!

Saute
3 tsp coconut oil
1/3 Cup onion, chopped
1/2 sweet red pepper, chopped
22 red grapes, halved

Make a simmer sauce
4 tsp white wine
2 tsp balsamic vinegar
1/8 cup orange juice

Add, cover and wilt as desired
1.3 cups of kale, ripped to bite size pieces
simmer sauce from above

Serve with a dusting of dukkah on top.

Rated a 4.5 on the Kale Scale.

Shiba Spiced Tofu with Kale and Fresh Grapes

Looking in fridge for what to do for dinner... Tofu that I needed to use up; red pepper and onion waiting to be used; and rest of some asparagus from this week. I was inspired by Shiba's Hot Curry Chutney that I spied in the fridge too. Thus began the cooking of dinner.  It was spicy hot, and delicious!  This makes 2 servings.

Saute until tofu is a bit browned and onion somewhat cooked
3 tsp olive oil
1 tsp Shiba's Popping Seeds
1/3 cup onion, chopped up
1 tsp raw ginger
7 oz Tofu, cut into 1/2 in squares
1 tsp Mrs Dash
1 tsp ground turmeric


Add, and continue saute
1/2 red bell pepper, diced
10 stalks of asparagus, cut up

Make simmer sauce:
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup white wine
1/3 cup orange juice
1 Tbsp yellow mustard (Portlandia)
3/4 tsp Shiba's Hot Curry Chutney

Add sauce and simmer on low for couple minutes

Add, cover, wilt
2 cups kale, ripped to bite size

Serve and top with
20 fresh grapes, halved

Rated a 4.68 on the Kale Scale.

Petite French Green Lentil Soup with Kale

I received some Lentil Soup from a friend - it's made with Petite French Green Lentils, with spices and ham. Very good. I added 1+ cup of ripped up kale to the heated up soup, and wilted the kale. Deeelicious!

I added some ground pepper, tsp of Gulden's Brown Mustard, and 6 oz of hard cider. Simmered to reduce the liquid some before adding the kale and wilting it.


No calorie count for this one.


Rated a 4.74 on the Kale Scale

Citrus Smoothie with Hummus

Tossing things in the vitamix to make this smoothie.  It was pretty good! 

However... I have been reading Fat Chance by Dr. Robert Lustig. Finally, a book about how bad added sugar really is!  He is offering evidence for why we have an obesity pandemic.  I highly recommend the book.

He also talks about other facets of food, including the role of fiber and how soluble fiber can’t do its job without insoluble fiber being present (which gets completely destroyed in all processed or blended food, yes blended, as in a blender, as in a vitamix).  So I won't be going full blended meals; and I'll probably still have smoothies, cause it's just so easy.

Blend

1 orange
1+ cup of Kale
3/4 cup raw pineapple
2 Tbsp hummus
5 grape tomatoes
1/2 yellow pepper

Rated a 4.51 on the Kale Scale.

Date with a Pepper

Decided I needed to actually eat food, not just drink my kale tonight. I was inspired by the yellow pepper that should have been in my lunch, but wasn't because I got up too late to make my lunch. The inclusion of the dates - just a hunch in the moment.  The sherry simmer, plus the dates and ginger made for a unique flavor. Very nice!

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, cut up
1.25 tsp raw ginger, peeled and sliced thin

Add and continue sauté
1 yellow pepper, cut up
4 dates, cut up
3 slices lean Canadian bacon, cut up
1/8 tsp each of chili powder, ground cumin
1/4 tsp each of ground cinnamon, ground pepper, Mrs Dash

Add and simmer
1 oz cooking sherry

Steam for 2 minutes in microwave
1 cup kale, ripped up to bite size

While kale steams, fry
1 egg in the middle of the pan with the veggies

Serve the egg and veggies on top of the steamed kale.

Rated a 4.64 on the Kale Scale.

Steamed Kale Topped With Roasted Vegies

Decided to roast some root vegies which included fennel bulb, onion, parsnip, turnip, rutabaga, yellow pepper, fingerling potatoes. Roasted with a bit of oil, balsamic vinegar, ras el hanout spice, chili pepper ground, black pepper ground, ground ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon. HmmMmm... good!

Steam
1 Cup of Kale, ripped to bite size pieces

Top with
1 and 1/4 cup of the roasted vegies
10 grape tomatoes, halved.

Enjoy!


Rated a 4.71 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

Brussel Sprout Kale with Egg and Spices

This started with a review of the supplies in refrigerator. That half and half is still good, but then I found in the freezer, frozen corn, and a bag of frozen kale. Both something I had bagged up before a little vacation 2 weeks ago. Found a couple little potatoes, and to my dismay, more brussel sprouts. So I left the half and half out of the deal, and here's what I did.  This was a good camouflage for the sprouts, too.

Saute:
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 cup onion, chopped
1 tsp garlic, minced
3 brussel sprouts, chopped
2 fingerling potatoes, halved lengthwise and sliced thin crosswise
1 tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp Mrs Dash
1 tsp zaartar (thyme and other spices. Mediterranean mix)

Add, lower to simmer and cover:
.5 oz white wine
3 tsp balsamic vinegar
1 oz water

After about 5 minutes, add, cover and wilt:
1.15 cup kale, ripped to bite size pieces. I used frozen. By the time I was ready for this step, it was almost thawed. Just put it all in and it will be cooked.
1/2 cup corn kernels (these too, frozen, but thawed in the simmer)
2 tsp sherry
2 Tbsp water

Make room in the middle and fry one egg.
Add more pepper

Serve with couple shakes of worcestershire sauce.


Rated a 4.58 on the Kale Scale.