BS: Baked Kale...

Subject: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 09:41 PM

Okay, little weird.... But good...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 09:50 PM

Recipe?

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 10:04 PM

All ya gotta do is put the kale on a cookie sheet, put olive oil and seasoning (salt or whatever ya like)) on it and bake it at 250 for 45 minutes...

Very strange...

But good...

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 10:06 PM

Fella back home once had himself a caked bale but he fed it anyways.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: bobad
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 10:17 PM

Most any veg given that treatment comes out good - the baking (or roasting) brings out the sweetness due to carmelization of the sugars in the veg.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Janie
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 10:18 PM

what gnu said!

? I'm vewry partial to the red russian varieties but would love to hear about other great varieties, being a kale lover.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 10:24 PM

Never had it this way... The P-Vine saw it on Food TV...

I think it needs some work???

Too much like eatin' paper???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 10:50 PM

Bobert, you are a HAIRYTICK!!! Bakin kale! You know it should only be cooked in potlikker and sopped up with cornbread! HAIRYTICK!!

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 11:08 PM

It kind of crumbles and melts in your mouth. I tried it once after seeing the recipe on ReBootYourLife, or the Forks Over Knives recipe site. I used kale everyday in my juice extraction. Best green drink I've ever had: kale, celery, cukes, lemon, green apples, ginger..very tasty! Before this I had never had kale in my life.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 11:11 PM

What you need to bake kale to perfection is a special kale baking oven. A regular oven just won't do the job. A good kale baking oven costs about $3,000.

(Yeah, I'm full of shit. But I figure anybody who actually watches Food TV will fall for anything.)

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Apr 12 - 11:21 PM

LOL, BWL!

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 04:35 AM

I grow a variety called Sutherland kale, and it's great. It has lasted us through the winter, and 2 days ago we stripped half of the plants, blanched them, and froze them. Very good vegetable for making Caldo Verde soup.
The remnainder are flowering and I will let them go to seed, for next year's crop.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 05:25 AM

I hope I'm thinking of the same 'greens' as you all. Kale here (UK) is a bit like a tall floppy cabbage. The best sort is 'curly kale' which looks as if it's had an afro hairdo. But I can't imagine baking it! I usually boil it for three minutes and it's done. Any longer and it goes yellow and all the goodness ends up in the water in the pan. It's one of my favourites, bursting with iron and Vit C, and extra good with a knob of butter.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: olddude
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 11:16 AM

my missus wants a recipe, anyone got one?

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 11:33 AM

Here ya go, Dan.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 03:38 PM

I was gonna make a smart-assed post based upon the fact that the recipe above requires a salad spinner, which I don't have.

But I've already made one smart-assed post to this thread, and it's not a good enough thread to deserve two of 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 03:47 PM

All you need is a pair of ladies tights. Put the kale in one of the legs, and whirl it around your head. Preferably outside.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 03:50 PM

Best to wash the kale and the tights before doing that.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 03:52 PM

Use a pair of underwear. Avoid the little yellow spot in front and the little brown spot in back. Or, even better, turn them inside out, then put the kale in.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: KHNic
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 05:13 PM

As an alternative to Kale, use Chard leaves.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 05:46 PM

Twirling a pair of ladies tights sounds like a great idea, but I have one small problem: my wife never wears them, so I'd have to get them off of some other woman.

Wait a minute....

That's a problem?

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 07:41 PM

Well, looks like we'll be experiementin' with kale recipes for the next month as the 8 foot row of the stuff is growin' as fast as you can cut it...

I liked the panti-hose idea, beeze, but it made the P-Vine dizzy??? Maybe I missed somethin'???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 10:15 PM

Was she watching you do it or wearing 'em as you did it?

Turn the oven up high enough and kale becomes chard. It's magic; don't tell anyone the secret.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 10:26 PM

No, Rap, I didn't exactly get the panti-hose thing down... I told the P-Vine taht this was the bee's knees... Wrong!!!

As for bakin' 'um??? I donno... Seems to be a better idea here... Had 'um boiled tonight and they were just fine...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: KT
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 10:56 PM

Those Kale chips are great! But you need to eat them right away, cause they're too chewy if you wait. Here's a great way to use up some of that abundant Kale - throw a couple of leaves in a blender with any other fruits and veggies you have on hand. Try Kale, blueberries, a banana, a few strawberries, a dab of vanilla yogurt, a few slices of avocado and a handful of fresh spinach, and whip up a fantastic smoothie! Great way to get your greens! YUM!

I'm planting Kale seeds tomorrow. Any wisdom to share?
KT

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 12 - 11:04 PM

OR you can mix lots of kale with canned fruit cocktail and cheap whiskey, put it in a blender, puree it, and serve it to someone you don't like.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 04:48 AM

Do they eat a lot of kale in China?

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: nutty
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 07:37 AM

When I was a child, kale was an animal feed. Whole fields of it were grown and harvested and then made into silage. It was becuase kale didn't keep well that it wasn't thought fit for human consumption.

Years later, when I had my own garden I grew kale as a winter veg. Treated like spinach - picked, washed and dropped into boiling water, Kale makes a marvellous veg to go with a Sunday Roast.

I have more recently bought it from a supermarket but find it tough and stringy unless the leaves are stripped of their veins - I've never baked it though - can't imagine what a hot oven would do to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Janie
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 07:52 AM

After reading the recipe it sounds yummy and I'm gonna have to try it.

Try braised kale, Bobert. Good as a side dish or served over pasta with parmesan cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 07:52 AM

The secret with tough kale is to shred it finely before cooking. Chuck it into fast boiling lightly salted water, and the minute it changes colour, strain it, squash, chop, and serve. Sprinkle with balsamic vinegar if you like it; I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 08:53 AM

The "stringy part" is Nature's gift to you. Not only is it a great source of fiber, but you can also use it to floss your teeth.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 01:05 PM

I too used many years ago to think of kale as animal feed. The Scots used to mock me for liking swedes, as they're cattle-feed up there. And what about ghastly skimmed (or semi-skimmed) milk? Used to be fed to the pigs!

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 05:11 PM

The Portuguese use it (along with white beans nd chorizo) o make a fine soup.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 05:45 PM

Caldo Verde as mentioned earlier.

Subject: RE: BS: Baked Kale...
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Apr 12 - 08:46 PM

I was working a Green Festival with the Water Generators this weekend. There were a couple of booths with people selling foods made of processed kale. As the joke goes "Tastes like moose turds...good though."