Kale, by the way, many ways...

We've been eating Kale.

And turnips, rutabagas, more peppers, 'nut squash, spinach, etc etc etc.

It sorta began when we were both fighting off a cold & I wanted to make us some chicken soup from scratch. Remembering fondly, turnips in the chickie soups of my youth, I asked for one to be bought with the ingredients. Somehow there was a half leftover - it was HUGE turnip.

I went to my go-to guys, at Food Network and found a recipe for turnips & something, who knows. What I do know is we had mashed turnips one night, sauteed turnips with broccoli another night and there was some turnip/rutabaga/broccoli "au gratin" another night.

Not too long after the addition of turnips & rutabagas, we saw Dr Wahls' TEDtalk & kale became our new ingredient in the kitchen. So far my fav recipe has been this yummy lasagna which we ate for a week. Kale made it's way into my Special Brunch for Christmas. Tonight,  I opened some cans of organic black bean soup, caramelized some garlic, onions & three huge leaves of kale and added the leftover cup or two of brown Spanish rice. I will be topping the bowls with the leftover Bison roast we had for Christmas Day dinner as taquitos.

Everywhere I looked, the folks raved about kale chips & shakes. I finally (as in 10 minutes ago) made my first batch of kale chips. Lighter than air, they are almost non-existent and they are kinda sweet in an odd way. I very very lightly salted the batch I made. I saved one big leaf for the trail kale shake experiment I have in mind for breakfast tomorrow.

The only recipe I have tried during this slow transition to eating more of the Wahls Way was a new take on butternut squash soup. But I was the only one who did not like the addition of the persimmons, so it was a success.

In my searching for more kale recipes and more info, I found a blog "dedicated" to kale. I think I have to try her kale hummus very soon & the pesto is just looking like it needs to be a staple here. While the goal IS 365 days of kale in our diet, I wonder how long it will take before that is a fact. I will keep you updated.