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

Squash and Pear Hash on Kale

Looking around for what to do with acorn squash and a pear plus, or course, kale. Decided to create a fruit and veggie hash. It was delicious!

Microwave til done
1 acorn squash.  Cut in half, scoop out seeds. Only using 1/2 so set the rest aside.

Saute til onion is limp
1/3 cup onion, chopped up
1.5 tsp olive oil

Add and continue saute
1 pear, asian, cored, chopped fine (peel left on)
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp tumeric
1/4 tsp nutmeg

Simmer with

1 oz white wine
1 Tbsp fig balsamic vinegar
1 tsp sesame seeds

Add, mix up and heat through
2 fake sausage patties, cut up
1/2 cooked acorn squash - scoop out by spoonful and add to pan

Steam till wilted, about 2 minutes
1+ cup kale, ripped to bite size pieces

Assemble on dinner plate
Steamed kale topped with the squash and pear hash mixture
10 green olives, halved (castelvetrano olives)


 Rated a 4.78 on the Kale Scale

Kale on the go ....

A couple of ways to supplement RTE meals with kale when doing some lite traveling.  All very delicious, and simple.

1.  Madras Lentils - Tasty Bites.

 Microwave the lentils in their pouch. Steam 1+cup kale in m-wave. Pour lentils atop the kale. Enjoy!










2.  Amy's Kitchen - Mexicana Casserole Bowl
Heat Casserole Bowl in m-wave. Steam 1+ cup kale in  m-wave on paper plate. Serve casserole on top of kale. Enjoy!










3.  Soupman's Lentil Soup (yes Soupman from Seinfeld, who knew you could get that at Safeway? No soup for you!).
Very tasty!  Steam 1+ cup of kale in m-wave; heat the soup. Top the soup with kale a bit at a time until both are gone. Won't be too long, this is very good soup!


4. Blockhouse Cafe Split Pea Soup
No calorie count on this one - I am sure it is the lo-cal version!  Arrived home from travels, and proceeded to do yardwork all afternoon, I found that the Cafe had soup today ... but they were just closed when I found out. I gave a call, and lo and behold, they were still there, soup was still hot. I ran over and got some. Steamed 1+ cup kale and added it to the soup. Yum!

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

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

Scrambled Eggs and Kale

Using tomatoes from my garden, this was a fairly simple dinner. Tasty too!

Saute
2 tsp olive oil
1/3 cup onion, chopped
1 brussel sprout (it's all I had)

Steam in microwave 2 minutes
1+ cup of kale, cut up to small pieces

Add and continue sauting
Steamed kale
12 grape size tomatoes, halved

 Add and scramble
2 eggs beaten with 1/4 cup milk
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1/2 tsp Spanish seasoning (that's the label)

Serve with a splash of Worcestershire sauce.


Rated a 4.58 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.