Eat What You Grow, Kale Chop Salad
Kale is the hot new super food. Not only is it super easy to grow, but it's very versatile too. Recipes are all over the web for green smoothies, salads, sautes and soups. In our house the favorite way to add some extra vitamin punch from Kale is in salads.
Our favorite Kale salad has most of the ingredients growing in our back yard; kale, romaine, carrot, tomato and cabbage. A few posts back, I talked about growing kale as an easy winter crop. Living in the desert we can grow a few things year round that others can't. By staggering plantings I can keep a fresh supply of salad greens all year. By changing up the ingredients to match what's on hand or to suit your taste, will keep the super food on your plate!
Mixed Green, Blue Cheese and Bacon Chop Salad
Use any combination:
Kale (find organic and Non-GMO seeds)
Romaine
Nappa Cabbage
Green cabbage
Radicchio
Red Cabbage
Spinach
Shredded Carrot
Blue Cheese Dressing
Blue Cheese crumbles
Bacon, cooked and crumbled ( we use real bacon, you can always skip or sub a veggie version)
Tomato, diced to about 1/4 inch chunks
Sunflower Seeds
Dried Cranberries (find Non-GMO dried fruits and seeds)
Wash, dry and chop all of your greens and lettuces. Remove the thick stems from your kale if desired. (For easier chopping stack the leaves, make several cuts from end to end about 1/2 inch apart, then chop across the leaf to make a grid pattern)
In a large bowl toss the greens with the remaining ingredients. Start slow with the dressing, it's easy to over do it!
You can find all the seeds you need to grow your own non-GMO produce at seedsnow.com
Our favorite Kale salad has most of the ingredients growing in our back yard; kale, romaine, carrot, tomato and cabbage. A few posts back, I talked about growing kale as an easy winter crop. Living in the desert we can grow a few things year round that others can't. By staggering plantings I can keep a fresh supply of salad greens all year. By changing up the ingredients to match what's on hand or to suit your taste, will keep the super food on your plate!
Mixed Green, Blue Cheese and Bacon Chop Salad
Use any combination:
Kale (find organic and Non-GMO seeds)
Romaine
Nappa Cabbage
Green cabbage
Radicchio
Red Cabbage
Spinach
Shredded Carrot
Blue Cheese Dressing
Blue Cheese crumbles
Bacon, cooked and crumbled ( we use real bacon, you can always skip or sub a veggie version)
Tomato, diced to about 1/4 inch chunks
Sunflower Seeds
Dried Cranberries (find Non-GMO dried fruits and seeds)
Wash, dry and chop all of your greens and lettuces. Remove the thick stems from your kale if desired. (For easier chopping stack the leaves, make several cuts from end to end about 1/2 inch apart, then chop across the leaf to make a grid pattern)
In a large bowl toss the greens with the remaining ingredients. Start slow with the dressing, it's easy to over do it!
You can find all the seeds you need to grow your own non-GMO produce at seedsnow.com
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