Eggplant Marsala Momo Masala with Egg

Using leftovers from yesterday's Eggplant Marsala ala Momo Masala, I put this together. It was even better in this configuration.  Yum!

Warm up and heat through
2 tsp butter
1 serving (1.5 cups) Eggplant Marasala ala Momo Masala from yesterday.


Make space in the middle and fry sunny side down
1 egg

Add, cover, wilt, then mix up
1 cup of kale, ripped to bite size pieces

Serve.

Rated a 3.77 on the Kale Scale.

Eggplant Marsala ala Momo Masala

I based the eggplant concoction  on the Eggplant Marsala recipe in Moosewood Recipe Book, but varied it in several ways to deal with having only 1 eggplant; and not using pasta. Then you add to this the Momo Masala spice that I got in Nepal and here's the result. It was very tasty!

Saute until onion is browned, limp
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped

Add and continue saute til eggplant a bit browned
1 eggplant, diced, peeling optional
1 yellow pepper, diced

Add and simmer until liquid is reduced mostly
1 can (14 oz) diced tomatoes
10 kalamata olives, halved
2 tsp garlic, diced
1/2 C sherry
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp black pepper, ground
2 tsp Momo Masala spice

Add and simmer more till liquid reduced
1/2 C water
1 oz white wine
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar

Serve on top of
1+ cup steamed kale, ripped to bite size pieces
Top with dusting of parmesan, grated.

Rated a 3.7 on Kale Scale.

Spicy Potato and Egg with Kale Saute

This was delicious, and filling. I started out reading the recent issue of Cooking Light, and was motivated to these ingredients by a recipe I saw. However, by the time I was done, this had nothing in common with that recipe except the kale!

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1 tsp Shiba's Popping Seeds
1/3 C onion, chopped
2/3 potato, chopped (used 1 small red; and 1 fingerling)
1.5 tsp turmeric, ground

Add, cover and simmer for about 5-10 min till potatoes are soft
1/4 to 1/2 C water

Add, and continue simmer at almost a saute temperature
1/3 C broccoli slaw
2 brussel sprouts, chopped
7 cherry tomatoes, quartered
1 oz white wine
1/3 C non fat milk

After ingredients are hot, and liquid almost gone, make room in middle of pan and add, fry over hard:
1 egg

As needed, add a bit of liquid to keep egg from sticking and keep ingredients around edges steaming.

As the egg cooks, add:
1 C ripped up kale around the edges on top of the other veggies. When the egg is done, take it out and set aside. 

Cover the dish and wilt the kale 1-2 mins til done.

Serve by putting the veggie mix on plate with egg on top.  Dust with chopped almonds.

Rated a 3.73 on Kale Scale.

Momo Masala Spiced Kale

Just returned from trip to Nepal where momos are a favorite appetizer. Momo is like a dumpling; or a pot sticker. It has spiced veggies or meat wrapped in dough and then steamed.  One of the ingredients
in momo is a collection of spices that one can buy in a spice mix called Momo Masala (which I found at the Nepal Airport for $2).




I did not make momos. Just used the spice. As you can see in the pix, momos by themselves are more work than my typical culinary activity.

This Kale experiment was inspired by the spices.

Next time, I think I'll bypass the tofu marination; and just saute it with the spices.  But overall it was a tasty dish.  These ingredients make 2 servings. The nutrition count is for one serving.

Marinate for 15 minutes or so
7 oz tofu, cut into 1 inch cubes
2 T Momo Masala spice
1 T raw shredded ginger
1 T soy sauce, sodium lite
1 T olive oil

1 T white wine

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
2/3 onion, diced
1 yukon gold potato, small, diced

Move this to a plate when done.

Saute (add oil only if needed)
The marinated tofu
1 tsp turmeric, ground

After tofu is heated through and browned some add, and simmer for 5 minutes or so, stirring every so often:
onion and potato mix
2 brussel sprouts, chopped
1 T white wine
1/2 c soy milk

Steam
1 cup kale, chopped fine

Put the kale on dinner plate. Put serving of Momo masala veggie mix on top.

Serve with a dusting of dukkah (ground Egyptian nut mix)

Rated a 3.60 on the Kale Scale.

Good Sam Kale

A trip to the doc's office isn't complete without lunch at Good Sam's Courtyard Cafe.  They have a great salad bar that includes kale, spinach and other greens. So I got my cup of kale in a salad today with  spinach, lettuce, coucous/raisins/pistachio/turmeric, walnuts, cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, carrots, with oil and balsamic vinegar.  It was really pretty good!  No nutritional count for this one.

Rated a 4.75 on the Kale Scale.

Ham Tangerine Kale Saute

Something quick for the New Year.  It turned out very tasty!

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

Toss in and keep sauting
1 cup broccoli slaw
1 tangerine, peeled and segments cut in half
3  oz of ham, lean (I used 3 tiny slices that came in a pack of 8 slices)

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

Serve with
dusting of home made dukkah



Rated a 4.79 on the Kale Scale

Dayton Diva's Kale Salad

This recipe came from the self-proclaimed Dayton Diva, Evonne Foshee - one of the members of the Amity-Dayton Cohort/Ford Family Foundation Leadership Institute. We had a potluck meeting, she brought the salad,  everyone enjoyed it so much, we got the recipe.

Her recipe goes like this:

1 chopped up bag of kale chopped more
1 apple diced
1 handful of dried cherries chopped or a handful of cranberries chopped or some of both
1 hand full of chopped candied walnuts or pecans or as I often use some salted sunflower seeds.

optional...
add some chopped broccoli slaw and chop it up finer or finely chopped cabbage slaw.
raspberry poppy seed dressing or make your own with a little balsamic some creamy dressing of some kind and some poppy seeds and some sugar or sweetener.
As you can see you can be creative here an add and subtract as you wish give me any ideas that you had at all incorporated them into my recipe I'm always looking for something new and exciting.

Here is my interpretation, for a potluck to serve 12:

• Kale. I didn't have a bag. I had two huge bunches of organic kale. I chopped up 1/2 a bunch or about 6-8 big leaves of curly green kale and it turned into about 6 cups of finely chopped kale. I "chopped" using my kitchen shears. Seeing the mound of kale, I stopped chopping.

• 2 Apples and 2-3 tsp of Lemon Juice.  After getting the ingredients in the bowl and mixed up, it seemed to want another apple, thus I used 2. After chopping/dicing apple with my Pampered Chef Chopper and putting on top of kale, I sprinkled with the lemon juice to keep it from turning brown.

• Dried Cranberries, sweetened only with apple juice. I didn't chop these, just tossed them in whole. After about 1 cup, it seemed to be enough.

• Almonds, roasted, unsalted, no sweetener. Chopped up fine with the PChef Chopper. 2/3 C.

• Broccoli Slaw. Bought a package at grocery, and used about 1/2 of it. volume wise it seemed like 1.5 cups. I chopped it up finer, with PChef Chopper.

• Dressing.  A couple Tbsp of Light Mayo tossed on the salad. A couple Tbsp of greek non-fat yogurt (plain), tossed in salad. And 1/2 cup or so of Dannon Light'n'Fit Vanilla yogurt.  My intention was to moisten the ingredients, and not slather them up with dressing. Mix it all in.

Make the salad in a huge bowl, and keep stirring or tossing with a huge meat fork, salad tongs, whatever. Once it's all combined and mixed up, load up the serving bowl.

Enjoy!  The picture, from Christmas Dinner, shows it was a hit.

Rated a  4.85 on the Kale Scale.