It all sounds great... EXCEPT THE KALE!
haha, you’ll never change my mind on that, nor chipped beef on toast otherwise known as SoS.
My daughter is a big Kale fan, she busted that out on thanksgiving one year, and it was a full frontal assault to my taste buds! But, being my daughter, I had to sit there like a 4 year old, and eat my vegetables and smile. They didn’t even have a dog for me to sneak it to under the table! So, I buried it in blue cheese dressing.
You are more of a man than I if you can tolerate such an evil vegetable! Beets may be the 2nd most evil vegetable (tuber/root/whatever), but my wife loves them to death. Cans them, mashes them, eats them boiled, stewed, grilled, etc. Yech!
Give me some brussel sprouts cooked in bacon fat with bacon bits with butter sauce over such nonsense as Kale anyday!
But... as a side note, the kale around tomatoes my neighbor swears by for cutworms. He does the same thing, says it keeps out all the grubs and worms from his tomayters, but I can understand why.... cuz even bugs won’t eat it! :)
I never tried arugala.
BOL!
One of the few things I don’t eat, are brussel sprouts.
A son, who is a former chef plans to fix me some on Father’s Day like you noted.
The other is Rhubarb in its various forms.
We love beets, my wife got a recipe for oven roasted beets from a Mexican Chef amig. She roasts them and has them ready for my Kale Salads:).
Having said that, my wife and I like all greens from Kale to Chard to Mustard except for beet greens. We have tried them and don’t like them.
The local farm where we buy kale, chard, eggs and other vegies also has beets. The farm manager s amazed after cutting my various type of Kale, and pulling our beets out of the ground. That I ask her to cut the greens off of the beets and feed her chickens. The chickens are fed kale, chard and beet greens, and their eggs are the best in spite of the beet greens.:)
The only time I’ve ever had kale was when it was in a lentil and sausage soup, and it was tolerable, but I have no idea what it tastes like on its own, so it may have been detracting from the other ingredients.
As for beets, I can stand those fine, because my mom always made them, but with one exception: pickled beets. Whoever invented those is the devil. If your wife isn’t serving pickled beets, count yourself lucky, slather them in butter and pepper, and choke em down. It could be much worse.
BOL re arugula. My entire family likes arugula, the only thing we have in common with Obozzo.
A month ago I planted two types of arugula. One, the entire family likes, the other got turned over yesterday to help new tomato plants grow in that water trough filled with our growing compost/soil mixture.
The turned over arugula was sour/bitter, and then it really tasted bad if you got past that part.
My wife and I are in our 70’s. If we don’t like a food product, we don’t eat it. There are too many wonderful foods we can raise, buy from local farmers, get at a farmers’s market and even at a super market.