Posts Tagged ‘kale’

The hot weather today made me crave something light, fresh and green. Here’s what I came up with from the nearly empty fridge. It was a surprising hit and was deemed ‘blog-able’. A few handfuls of gorgeous local kale from 1 Fuji apple, thinly sliced a handful of natural sliced almonds some shavings of parmesan a couple of glugs of olive oil juice of 1/3 of a lemon freshly ground pepper and sea salt I bought the kale yesterday from the Greener Grocer and it hails from Green Edge Gardens in Athens. Green Edge is wonderful farm that we toured with […]

My friends Margaux and Tim very kindly offered to share some of their excess Thanksgiving CSA produce. Tim arrived on the doorstep with a huge bag of kale and a napa cabbage as big as a newborn baby. This bag of greens took up a whole shelf in the fridge and we spent over a week having a series of cabbage and kale based meals. There were at least four varieties of kale in the mix, including lacinato (or dinosaur) kale, Russian kale and curly kale (pictured from left to right). The top picture is of red Russian kale. Kale […]