Saturdays are always hectic around here, when we’re rushing around to take care of a week’s errands, running off to the CSA farm to pick up our weekly share and pick whatever’s available from the fields, cleaning the house and attending various events. Phew. So this weekend, when we were cleaning out our gardens for [...]
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Saturday Soup: Potato and Kale
Posted in Kale, Potatoes, Soup, tagged Potato and kale soup, Using ham hocks on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Scalloped Potatoes with Kale
Posted in Kale, Potatoes, Vegetable gratin, tagged Kale, potato on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since I grow kale well into the late fall (I harvested the last bit of lacinato kale in the second week of December) and since it’s one of the more dependable winter vegetables from the health food store, even coming from local sources, we have developed plenty of ways of including it in dishes, from [...]
Kale Forest
Posted in Greens, Kale, tagged Greens on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the lower leaves of kale are harvested and the tops continue to grow, the stand of kale starts to resemble a Lilliputian forest. During the gleaning at our CSA farm, there were several varieties to choose from: Red Russian, green flat leaved, lacinato, crinkly green and crinkly purple. I took a little of each.
