In reality, I LOVE Kale!
Posted on 10/06/2020 7:40:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mmmmmm.....gimme some kale.
In reality, I LOVE Kale!
KALE! KALE! THE GANG’S ALL HERE!................
Hahahaha!!
Diana....I have been searching for a man/men to add to my photography portfolio.
I see you have a preference for Ryans.....let me know of you have any Ryan’s you can get to pose for my camera.
I’ve been reading a compilation of “California writing” dating back to the mission days. Southern California was a completely different — and fascinating — place in the early and middle 1900s. Agriculture, oil drilling, the constant search for water, the development of talkies, Aimee Semple McPherson and her Angelus Temple . . .
I prefer Cowboys to Kaleboys! LOL.
Lettuce is great.
Every ‘Ryan’ I have ever known has been very sweet. Except for Paul Ryan. He’s a self-serving traitorous Deep Stater!
Again, Wisconsin apologizes for Paul Ryan! I hope he chokes on kale salad, LOL!
I the winter months, I buy the lettuce that comes packaged with the roots still on it...then I use the root to grow us some more lettuce in my indoor grow rack. Works like a charm! :)
Getting ready to set up my ‘greenhouse inside of a greenhouse’ plantings of salad greens when we cool off again. These (bonus!) 75 degree Fall days make it close to 100 degrees in the greenhouse, and baby salad greens don’t like that! I actually moved some tender things OUT of the greenhouse, today. :)
Compton’s been growing junkies and layabouts for decades.
“Plenty’s long-term goals go beyond tasty salad greens. It wants to combat food apartheid by bringing healthy, locally-grown crops to communities that lack access to nutritious produce.”
All well and good - but fresh produce goes to waste at my local Food Pantry; people don’t know how to use it! They want to open a can or a box and nuke it. ‘Plenty’ had better have an ARMY of instructors hanging out at said, ‘food apartheid centers’ to show people what to do with a bunch of broccoli or a raw beet.
All of which makes me cRaZy in about a dozen different ways!
Kale is the perfect ‘green’. It has practically no flavor, so you can give it one with herbs, spices and OTHER GREENS.
You can mix it into Turnip Greens, Mustard Greens and Collards and it becomes those.....................
That reminds me of a old Jerry Clower (RIP) joke:
Two rednecks were talking while working and one asked, “What does your dog eat?”
“Why, my dog eats DOG FOOD,” replied the other, “What does your dog eat?”
“My dog eats TURNIP GREENS!” said the first one, proudly.
“My dog won’t eat no turnip greens.” Said the second one.
“Mine wouldn’t, either,...” said the first one, “... For a month.”..................
I do that with the green onions I buy at Aldi. I pulled my basil and planted it indoors for winter.
I just made my version of ‘Italian Wedding Soup’ yesterday and I added kale to that. I have a mixed salad with kale at least 2x a week, and I still have tons of kale in the garden - I planted two green and two red this season.
I’ll chop a lot of it up and freeze it on a cookie sheet, then into ziplock bags and back into the freezer, so it’s loose and not one big ‘kale clump’ when I need it for winter soups and stews.
I also make a Lemony Kale Pesto that is awesome.
https://www.loveandlemons.com/kale-pesto/
Such a useful veg and so good for you! Vitamin A, Antioxidants, Vitamin C and B6 and Calcium for stronger ‘old lady’ bones. ;)
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Add it to Coleslaw!....................chopped finely of course............
I have two sons, the oldest who lives by pizza and 'nuked foods', and the youngest who has built his first raised bed garden, and has only heirloom seeds.
The youngest son has already enlarged his garden space by X3 in anticipation of next springs planting by building up soil and compost.
The best way to overcome the 'only nuke foods mentality' is to give away a single stalk of garden greens, along with written instructions
on how to prepare it for table when people come in only for canned goods.
You can only overcome food processing ignorance by voluntary giving of a free education sheet; most people will take advantage of anything that is free.
It is but a small financial sacrifice to encourage folks to try something that they are unaccustomed to doing.
Too often we become creatures of 'habit'.
Yep. I do that, too. Delish! :)
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