After my walk with the dog, I stopped at the vegetable garden and cut myself a couple of dozen kale leaves for my lunch.
I washed the leaves and then sautéed them in olive oil with garlic and a pickled cayenne pepper that we grew last year. A touch of vinegar in the greens perks them up. They stay a little crunchy, but are tender. You feel virtuous eating kale.
It wasn't all we ate, of course. To go with the kale, Walt made me a batch of hushpuppies, which are deep-fried corn bread.
Oh, and there was also a pork roast — we get such good pork here in France. I'll skip talking about that right now. It was a memorable day for my 65th.
Hooray for you for eating kale. And it's always wonderful when it comes from your garden. I'm not growing any curly kale this year, but I have lots of dark green lacinato. And chard--tons o' chard. Kale is a nice counterbalance to hush puppies, I'm sure. Glad you had sun and a lovely birthday! xo
ReplyDeleteA belated happy Birthday for yesterday Ken. Sounds like you had a lovely day :-)
ReplyDeleteObviously kale is doing you a power of good!
Hi Ginny, I have to get some lacinato seeds and grow that variety this year. We grow chard too and like it almost more than spinach. Have you made a chard quiche?
ReplyDeleteWe are having hushpuppies because our bread lady is on vacation for 10 days.
Hi N & A, it was a good day. Me and kale must be like Popeye and spinach.
Ooooooh, all very good!
ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Birthday! Somehow I missed yesterday's post. I put kale right up there with collards and you have to have cornbread with both!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the South and still have never made Hushpuppies ! I eat them whenever I can but I never learned to make them. I guess this is another reason I have to go back to France .. and visit you :) bises
ReplyDeleteBelated Birthday Wishes, Ken!
ReplyDelete65 was a very good year for me; I'm hoping it will be an excellent year for you!
I'd never heard the comparisons that you gave but I certainly enjoyed reading about the brooms, cars and height of the trees!
Keep smiling, laughing and eating those greens and we'll all celebrate the future together!!!
Mary in Oregon
What a feast. Happy Birthday.
ReplyDeleteLove the living room photo!
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