Recipe: Simply Boiled Kale

Step one:

• Boil water in a pot.
• Remove leaves from stems and cut or tear leaves in any size you like. Chop the stems into ½-inch pieces, discarding the bottom as it tends to be tough.
• Add Kale to boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. By the end the leaves should be slightly wilted yet bright green.
• Strain the kale and keep the water

Note: The water you boiled the kale in has taken on a sweet flavor. Sip it as a tea, use it in your next broth or soup, or let it cool and water your plants with it.

Step Two:
Choose one of the following variations:
o Toss with lemon juice and salt
o Toss with a dash of tamari/ soy sauce
o Toss with balsamic vinegar or apple cider vinegar
o Sautee garlic in olive oil and mix kale in on the last minute.
o Top with nutritional yeast
o Drizzle a few drops of sesame oil
o Sauté onions, mushrooms, red peppers, leeks, corn… whatever sounds or looks appealing to you and mix in the greens for the last minute of the Sautéing
o Add some chopped walnuts to one of the variations above
o Toast pine nuts on a cookie sheet in a 325-degree oven for 5 minutes. Then toss with greens, some raisins, and a squeeze of lemon juice