How did kale rise to power in the vegetable world and...

[Anonymous]

I am a convert to kale - I saute it in olive oil and put some grated cheese on top. That's my go-to dinner when I don't want to cook but don't want to feel like I'm eating junk. This dish feels reasonably balanced.

[Anonymous]

Through the oppression of the lesser veggies such as green beans and snap peas. they wereplacsd in the starch ghetto, while broccoli and spinach fought amongst themselves, kale slipped through to the top and into every cardiologist's wet dream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Through the oppression of the lesser veggies such as green beans and snap peas. they wereplacsd in the starch ghetto, while broccoli and spinach fought amongst themselves, kale slipped through to the top and into every cardiologist's wet dream.

LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this crack me up. Black people have been eating kale for 200 years. I've had those nasty chips and you would want to try my mother's kale.

You crack me up. Veggies like Kale, Beets, Turnips, and Parsnips were usual American Fare until the 1970s when they fell out of favor. So even white people were eating those foods for hundreds of years.

Anyways, Black People eat more Collards.

We eat kale, collards and mustard greens. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this crack me up. Black people have been eating kale for 200 years. I've had those nasty chips and you would want to try my mother's kale.

You crack me up. Veggies like Kale, Beets, Turnips, and Parsnips were usual American Fare until the 1970s when they fell out of favor. So even white people were eating those foods for hundreds of years.

Anyways, Black People eat more Collards.

We eat kale, collards and mustard greens. Thank you.

Yeah, but not dried out, covered in chocolate and $6 a bag!

[Anonymous]

Kale and collards are actually the same species, just different varieties. Just a fun fact.

Try taking either one (young leaves, please) and putting them on a baking sheet. Toss with olive oil. Put in oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or so, until it is as dry and crackly as you want it. Toss with salt. My green-o-phobe son and husband scarf them down.

[Anonymous]

Kale chip lovers: allow me to introduce you to the wonders o' the microwave. yes, 2-4 minutes (depending on the power of your 'wave) will crisp up that kale. The addition of oil, salt and even a little soy sauce renders it into something of heaven - reminiscent of those wonderfully strange seaweed snacks we're so addicted to now (and paying so dearly for - my kids don't know the difference!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this crack me up. Black people have been eating kale for 200 years. I've had those nasty chips and you would want to try my mother's kale.

You crack me up. Veggies like Kale, Beets, Turnips, and Parsnips were usual American Fare until the 1970s when they fell out of favor. So even white people were eating those foods for hundreds of years.

Anyways, Black People eat more Collards.

We eat kale, collards and mustard greens. Thank you.

cooked in bacon grease?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this crack me up. Black people have been eating kale for 200 years. I've had those nasty chips and you would want to try my mother's kale.

You crack me up. Veggies like Kale, Beets, Turnips, and Parsnips were usual American Fare until the 1970s when they fell out of favor. So even white people were eating those foods for hundreds of years.

Anyways, Black People eat more Collards.

We eat kale, collards and mustard greens. Thank you.

cooked in bacon grease?

White girl here...I didn't get the whole "collards are delicious" thing until I had some cooked in bacon grease. That shit was delicious indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this crack me up. Black people have been eating kale for 200 years. I've had those nasty chips and you would want to try my mother's kale.

You crack me up. Veggies like Kale, Beets, Turnips, and Parsnips were usual American Fare until the 1970s when they fell out of favor. So even white people were eating those foods for hundreds of years.

Anyways, Black People eat more Collards.

We eat kale, collards and mustard greens. Thank you.

cooked in bacon grease?

White girl here...I didn't get the whole "collards are delicious" thing until I had some cooked in bacon grease. That shit was delicious indeed.

Everything is better with bacon, especially veggies.

This is not unique to the black community, nor are collards. This is a Southern thing, and a poor thing, which is no doubt a contributing factor to higher rates of obesity in the south and in black communities.

[Anonymous]

Fat pretty much has the same calories across the board. Might as well use a tablespoon of bacon grease as olive oil. People are not fat in the south because of kale, they are fat because of Twinkies and Doritos.

[Anonymous]

Person earlier back asked for kale chip recipe. Here's one I've used. You can get the Tuscan Kale at Whole Foods. They really are delicious but you pretty much have to eat them right away or by the next day at latest.

http://www.marthastewart.com/345350/kale-crisps-sea-salt-and-lemon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this crack me up. Black people have been eating kale for 200 years. I've had those nasty chips and you would want to try my mother's kale.

You crack me up. Veggies like Kale, Beets, Turnips, and Parsnips were usual American Fare until the 1970s when they fell out of favor. So even white people were eating those foods for hundreds of years.

Anyways, Black People eat more Collards.

We eat kale, collards and mustard greens. Thank you.

cooked in bacon grease?

I saute my kale in EVOO and cook my collards in homemade vegetable broth, but my mom's collards, which she cooks in animal fat, taste better.

I enjoy them once or twice a year during the holidays, and they're the tastiest greens I eat all year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posts like this crack me up. Black people have been eating kale for 200 years. I've had those nasty chips and you would want to try my mother's kale.

You crack me up. Veggies like Kale, Beets, Turnips, and Parsnips were usual American Fare until the 1970s when they fell out of favor. So even white people were eating those foods for hundreds of years.

Anyways, Black People eat more Collards.

We eat kale, collards and mustard greens. Thank you.

cooked in bacon grease?

White girl here...I didn't get the whole "collards are delicious" thing until I had some cooked in bacon grease. That shit was delicious indeed.

Everything is better with bacon, especially veggies.

This is not unique to the black community, nor are collards. This is a Southern thing, and a poor thing, which is no doubt a contributing factor to higher rates of obesity in the south and in black communities.

Although perhaps the bacon grease thing is more common in the south, the bacon thing isn't. People of all socioeconomic levels, geographic locations, and races enjoy shit like bacon cupcakes and bacon ice cream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fat pretty much has the same calories across the board. Might as well use a tablespoon of bacon grease as olive oil. People are not fat in the south because of kale, they are fat because of Twinkies and Doritos.

Exactly. As evidenced in the thread here about "What did you eat today and are you fat," there are plenty of tubby DCUM mamas who aren't ingesting any bacon grease.