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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Kale is awesome in all forms. In soups, as crisps, stewed and everything else!

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

    There's only one way to eat kale: "Stamppot"

    Edit with simple recipe: You boil the kale. Boil some potatoes. Throw them together and mash them with a masher. Add some fine cut bacon cubes (lightly fried) if you like and add pepper and salt and gravy to taste. Don't forget to serve "rookworst" on the side

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sounds a lot like Northern German "Grünkohl mit Pinkel".
    Except we don't mash it.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    Kale is delish!

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    skill issue

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Garlic, motherfucker, do you use it!?

    (Love kale and the weird little mutants called kalettes. If you don't use any aromatics or seasoning though, you're gonna have a bad time)

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Of course kale is going to taste like shit if you dont properly cook it. Boil it in salted water with potatoes, strain it, mix it with olive oil and garlic and serve it with chicken.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Kale is a vile unholy weed. No leaf vegetable should be able to survive frost like that.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But it's so yummy and bitter and good for u 🥺

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    This does not appear to be well known: kale really needs colder temperatures in order to taste best. It's sweetest when it has been through a frost or two. Unfortunately that's not always maximally profitable for Huge Giant Corporate farms and so your kale is grown in warmer temperatures and tends to be bitter.

    On the plus side, it's incredibly easy to grow yourself.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    As a Portlander, this is blasphemy

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Sauteed kale in coconut oil is not even worthy of being considered shitty food porn; that's a crime against humanity.

    And I speak as someone that is aiming at be crowned as the overlord of the shitty food porn in the respective /c/

    BRB, going to make food porn with kale and coconut oil.

    Now, it's a challenge to make something good!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Idk why people use coconut oil for things like that when olive oil is tastier, healthier, and, at least where I'm at, cheaper. I get the smoke point thing, but that's not relevant for use cases like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    See my understanding of coconut oil is it's a better substitute for lard or shortening because 1. it's unsaturated fat rather than saturated fat and 2. it's not hydrogenated. It's a vegetable oil that's solid at room temperature, which is why you see it used in packaged baked goods a lot, because in the words of Alton Brown, "It'll stay moist and unctuous while having the shelf life of uranium."

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Kale is great when mixed with smashed potatoes in a giant pan with some bacon or sausage.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Kale is quite more fibrous, it's better cut in strips and blanched in salted water, then it gets softer. I quite like the taste, it's a great winter vegetable, mixed with diced potatoes and carrots for example

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Kinnnda, but if you treat it like lettuce you'll be disappointed. It's a lot chewier. Think of it as in between lettuce and cabbage. Unless you're just bunging it in a soup you probably have to do a little more work on it.

    I like to "massage" when eating eating raw. That's where you strip the leaves off the stalks and vigorously kneed and scrunch those up with your hands until they're soft to the touch.

    Then you can throw in whatever dressing you like. Toasted sunflower seeds and dried cranberries are good at this stage, to really emphasise the toothiness of kale.

    It's also kinda like spinach come to think of it. A lot of the same tricks work on it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    We were out of spinach (admittedly, I hate lettuce so I usually use spinach, instead) so I subbed in kale for my lunch sandwich, one time. I thought it worked alright, though.

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