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Sante [Member] — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:16:00 +0000

I first tried kale when in college about 35 years ago. It was featured in "Portuguese Kale Soup", which also featured chouriço (chorizo)-- very tasty-- at a local restaurant: A nice discovery.
These days I notice Whole Foods Market using a lot of kale in its Prepared Foods dept.: A slaw and some other salads.
And small heads of kale - especially if purple - still on their stems can look pretty in large floral arrangements!

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Carole [Visitor] — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:37:27 +0000

I cook kale all the time and have never noticed a bad smell! But I think the onions might have something to do with that. I love onions cooked with zucchini, mushrooms, green beans, any kind of beans, carrots, fennel bulb, and probably more I can't think of now. But I would never cook onions with broccoli or either kale or collards. Makes them taste yukky - that's a foodie technical term:) - and would smell bad. But kale simmered with only garlic and sea salt, then add eden foods canned cannellini beans until heated through, and dress with olive oil after cooling a few minutes (to preserve the olive oil flavor) - my family thinks THAT is wonderful! As a side dish or a pasta topping. But, beets? My HH says cooking beets smells like DIRT! lol

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Vicki Atkinson [Visitor] — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:24:17 +0000

Baby Kales are almost tasteless in salads, I include them with Baby Spinach, it is very good. Also, if you ever juice,(some don't recommend juicing a lot) Kale is a very good way to get those healthy greens in there, with little taste alteration. I was a big green vegetable hater growing up, and must admit that it takes determination to add new greens to my diet. A lot of people like Kale chips, I do not. I think it is better raw or wilted. It is also really good in turkey soup.

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Donna [Visitor] — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:54:04 +0000

Suzanne, try the Crispy Kale Chips recipe in the recipe center. Both my husband and I enjoyed these chips.

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Karen B. [Visitor] — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:42:24 +0000

Kale seems to be all the rage these days. I tried making the chips and found about what you did, they were terrible. My son and I bit into them, smiled at each other, YUM!, then started chewing and spit it out in the trash can. YUK!
The only way I've ever liked kale is in a slow cooker beef stew. When small bits of it cook for 10 hours in beef juice it doesn't taste so bad.