I happen to love green vegetables, leafy green vegetables but I’m the only one at home who does… my son who comes home occasionally will eat some, and enjoy, but it’s difficult to buy a small enough portion of kale, a tiny enough cabbage, a little lettuce, to be practical… spinach freezes well so that isn’t such a problem… and I try to be inventive, making salad dishes from all sorts of different cabbages as well as steaming or boiling them to serve hot… but a whole cabbage… even a small one, is a lot for a single green-eating person!
As I’ve mentioned before, we have an organic veg box delivered to us each week by Riverford organics, and I love the surprise of seeing what they bring me each week – yes, I know I pay for it, but its like a present when the box arrives! because I don’t choose the quantity I receive, sometimes the bags of produce are very generous, especially with leafy things.
I came across this list of suggestions for using kale in different ways and I’ll certainly give them a try… well some of them:
- fritters
- pesto
- smoothie
- cake
- mash
- cookies
- hummus
- paella
- crisps
The great thing about some of these suggestions is that I think my husband might try them. we all hve food prejudices, and for various reasons my husband has a strong aversion to and prejudice against ‘greens’. So… Fritters? Yes he’d like them (with tomato sauce) Pesto? A possibility on pasta… Cake and cookies? Definitely yes… Mash? Only if there was just the tiniest bit of kale in it and plenty of butter, pepper and nutmeg! paella? Probably not, he would be like a schoolboy and pick it out and leave it on the side of his plate. Crisps? Maybe!
One thing neither of us would go anywhere near is a smoothie… I just don’t like drinking fruit and vegetables… fruit smoothies sound horrid to me, I think because of the texture and the blended flavours, and blended vegetables? They just sound horrible to me… give me a lovely salad of them instead!
here is a link to the nine unusual ways of cooking , eating and enjoying kale:
Lois Elsden 
I eat the vegetables and salad first and can’t get enough. Not a vegan but got on a sort of Atkins diet years ago when found out I was borderline type 2 diabetic.That with a lot of exercise got my numbers to near perfect. Funny side effect is that I can’t stand fat and hate the smell of bacon and won’t have it in the house. Sort of like Jack Sprat. Feel great tho.
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Well done you! I’m nearly a veggie, but only through choosing to eat lots of veggie stuff, not because I don’t choose meat… if you see what I mean!
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P.S. Just finished an article on the BBC about reheated pasta being better for you than freshly boiled pasta.I was astonished to find that my blood glucose numbers were near perfect after eating pasta the previous night as it went against all logic and a lot of people didn’t believe me.Still have trouble with potatoes tho. We always cook pasta and then reheated it but only now realize that we were doing the right thing. Bravo to Trust me I’m A Doctor. Also pumping iron and not cardio is the best exercise for diabetics as it allow your cells to use insulin properly. Looking good and feeling good are a great reward!!
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Brilliant!! Good for you!! I still spend too much time writing and not enough exercising!
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We want you lookin good in the neighbourhood Yeow!
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We went to an art exhibition of a friend and he had some great pictures of a coastal walk we hadn’t been on… so if it ever stops raining we will have a go at that! … honestly I think my husband ought to start building an ark!
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