{"id":3429,"date":"2014-06-09T05:44:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tracyleekarner.com\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2020-10-06T23:21:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T23:21:37","slug":"meatless-monday-i-like-kale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2014\/06\/09\/meatless-monday-i-like-kale\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind that it&#039;s Meatless Monday: I&#039;m eating Kale because I LIKE it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3430\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dsc_0006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3430 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dsc_0006.jpg?w=560\" alt=\"delicious kale recipe for meatless monday\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful Kale!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>I like Kale&#8211;it&#8217;s inexpensive, easy-to-prepare, crunchy-chewy and flavorful.<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve hated Kale, perhaps you&#8217;ve swallowed it as super-food medicine&#8211;dried into a revolting substitute for potato chips, or blended into a gagging substitute for a refreshing drink.<br \/>\n<a title=\"truth about kale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/food-recipes\/features\/the-truth-about-kale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here&#8217;s the truth about Kale&#8211;<\/a><br \/>\nit&#8217;s got a bitter bite to it. I happen to like bitter &#8212; Brussel sprouts, grapefruit, Campari, broccoli rabe, black coffee. I enjoy enlivening my tastebuds\u00a0by mixing up sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, hot.<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t relish a powerfully bitter sensation on your tongue, add some\u00a0honey to this recipe and give Kale a\u00a0chance. The dish is so pretty&#8211;it&#8217;s worth making it just to see\u00a0it on your plate. And it tastes yummy.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Saut\u00e9ed Kale with Red Pepper, Onion, Black Olive and Pine Nuts<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Serves 2<br \/>\n(This recipe can be doubled to infinity and beyond&#8211;if you&#8217;ve got a truckload of\u00a0Kale and an army\u00a0to feed.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>scant tablespoon of olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 cups Kale, torn or cut into pieces<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup sliced red bell pepper<\/li>\n<li>1\/3 cup sliced sweet red onion<\/li>\n<li>3-4 black olives, sliced<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons pine nuts<\/li>\n<li>a wedge of lemon (grate a bit of the zest from it)<\/li>\n<li>some slices of garlic clove (as much or little as you like)<\/li>\n<li>1-2 \u00a0teaspoons of honey (optional)<\/li>\n<li>your favorite hot sauce or a sprinkle of red pepper flakes (optional&#8211;I like <a title=\"Frank's RedHot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.franksredhot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank&#8217;s RedHot<\/a> for this dish)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Heat a large saut\u00e9 pan over medium-high heat until you can feel the heat rising from it when you hold your palm 3-4 inches above the surface. Add the olive oil and swirl it around. It should shimmer.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle in the pine nuts, red pepper and onion and stir fry for 1-2 minute until the nuts start to brown and the onion begins to\u00a0turn golden.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in the garlic.<\/li>\n<li>Give the kale a quick rinse and add it to the pan with a bit of water clinging to its leaves. Stir. Add the lemon zest, olives, and squeeze the juice from the lemon wedge over. Add the honey if you don&#8217;t love a bitter zing. Stir. Zip it up with heat, if you&#8217;re a chile-head.<\/li>\n<li>Stir until just wilted. Serve (goes smashingly on a plate with <a title=\"really good corn pudding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/ina-garten\/sagaponack-corn-pudding-recipe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corn pudding<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"batali beans\" href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/the-chew\/recipes\/braised-white-beans-sofrito-mario-batali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">delicious Italian-style white\u00a0beans<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Be aware of another Kale\u00a0truth:<a title=\"kale-haters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/karin-kasdin\/kale-haters_b_4171383.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> eating too much Kale\u00a0will make you embarrassingly gassy<\/a>. This is nature&#8217;s revenge against people who\u00a0consume\u00a0huge quantities of a supposed miracle food on the naive assumption that they can make themselves live forever-young. Nature abhors a common-sense-vacuum.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center;\">All things in moderation!<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3432\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dsc_0008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3432\" src=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dsc_0008.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Saut\u00e9ed Kale with red pepper, onion, black olive and pine nuts by Tracy Lee Karner\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretty as a picture Kale!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>What&#8217;s your opinion of\u00a0Kale?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Kale&#8211;it&#8217;s inexpensive, easy-to-prepare, crunchy-chewy and flavorful. If you&#8217;ve hated Kale, perhaps you&#8217;ve swallowed it as super-food medicine&#8211;dried into a revolting substitute for potato chips, or blended into a gagging substitute for a refreshing drink. Here&#8217;s the truth about Kale&#8211; it&#8217;s got a bitter bite to it. I happen to like bitter &#8212; Brussel &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2014\/06\/09\/meatless-monday-i-like-kale\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Never mind that it&#039;s Meatless Monday: I&#039;m eating Kale because I LIKE it!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[307,620,621,622,623,624,1104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}