Comments on: it’s raining kale (sweet potato & kale soup)

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:58:52 +0000

Ali — I agree with you on the meat thing. I’m not a big meat eater, but every so often I have some high-quality, grass fed and finished options.

Summer? We had the most violent storm Monday night — cold and lots of hail and wind.

By: Ali (Whole Life Nutrition)

Ali (Whole Life Nutrition) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:04:00 +0000

We have too much kale these days too – lots of smoothies for us. Kale soup sounds good! I made something similar when I was pregnant with my twins. This is the only time in my life (since I was a kid) that I have made pork. I used a spicy pork sausage from a local farm – pasture finished animals. I sliced them up and added cooked pink beans, fire roasted tomatoes, yams, onions, kale, and loads of garlic. Oh – some chipotle in there too. It was one of the best stews I have ever made – though I couldn’t stomach the pork now.

Cold here today again, where did summer go?

-A

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:40:37 +0000

Shirley,

Yes, I have 2 that I thought I’d put together. I’m going to be out of town starting today for the next several days, so I’ll get to it when I return. I’m going to Idaho and the Sawtooth Mountains! Yeah!

I’ll be in touch soon. I’m not ignoring you if you don’t hear from me for the next 5 or 6 days.

By: gfe--gluten free easily

gfe--gluten free easily — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:23:10 +0000

Two recipes for the carnival?! That sounds great, and I know folks will really appreciate one with dehydrated kale. You’re not the only one getting lots of kale from your CSA it seems … I’m seeing it on other sites, too.

Shirley

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:00:28 +0000

Rayann,

Wow, you’re getting a full-on introduction to kale this summer, aren’t you!?

Yes, I love all kinds of greens on pizza. And yes, again — we have some great GF pizza crusts made with everything from amaranth to sorghum to brown rice.

Kale and Italian sausage just seem to got together, don’t they?! I love that.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:57:53 +0000

Shirley,

Yeah — this bombardment of greens is getting intense. I’m not complaining though. In fact, I have 2 recipes for your “Go Ahead Honey, It’s Gluten Free” carnival. One has dehydrated kale in it.

Adding a good pizza/pasta sauce like the Eden organic one is such a good way to add depth to chicken broth soups and stews. That’s one of my GF thickener tricks.

By: Rayann

Rayann — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:34:48 +0000

We have crazy amounts of kale, too. I’d never even eaten kale before this summer, now I cook it every day.

My favorite thing to do with the kale so far has been kale pizza. We used pizza crust (can you do gluten free pizza crust?), tomato sauce, sauteed mushrooms, italian sausage and kale, topped with mozzarella. It was fabulous.

I also put it in a stir fry this week with my broccoli and peas – also really good.

By: gfe--gluten free easily

gfe--gluten free easily — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:26:10 +0000

Melissa–This sounds really good!! I just made sweet potato chili last week for our support group meeting so I know how much flavor they can add to a soup/stew type dish. And, the addition of the pizza sauce sounds like genius! I’ve really liked the herbs that are in pizza sauce when I’ve used them for recipes, too.

Hey, you know how some folks have a special wine refrigerator, you might have to get a kale refrigerator!

Shirley