Do you even kale?

I think kale and most bitter greens taste good, but I legitimately like the taste (although, I started trying it because of all the superfood hype). Now, I just love bitter greens. My new two favorites are lacinato kale (it holds up to how badly I overcook it) and mustard greens (awesome with just a tiny bit of lemon juice added toward the end, then I eat a big pile of it with some runny fried eggs on top). The other night, we did kale that we started with chopped bacon and put in a butt-ton of minced garlic at the end, so it was still nice and spicy. Worth it.

juggernaut1974 wrote: »

snowflake930 wrote: »

Wetcoaster wrote: »

Healthy fast food? McDonald's kale salad has more calories than a Double Big Mac

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/mcdonalds-kale-calorie-questions-1.3423938

^^That isn't the kale, it is the dressing and croutons.

Though one could potentially argue that the latter are required to make the former palatable.

LOL, I guess I would have to agree with this, however, I opt to skip the kale part of it, then I might as well have a Big Mac.

People with blood clots or tendencies toward clots need to cut down on the bitter greens, as they "thicken" your blood. It sucked when I had a blood clot. I didn't even know fairly active people could get blood clots at a young age, but I guess that just proves my ignorance.

kshama2001 wrote: »

Once I find a typo ("Inflammitory"), I lose all respect and question the veracity of the rest of the content.

JustinAnimal wrote: »

People with blood clots or tendencies toward clots need to cut down on the bitter greens, as they "thicken" your blood. It sucked when I had a blood clot. I didn't even know fairly active people could get blood clots at a young age, but I guess that just proves my ignorance.

Yup this is very true and something we have to be conscious of in our house my partner is on blood thinners and after we eat greens his I and R gets thrown out of whack!!! 30% of the population has blood with a tendency to clot it's only those that have have a crush injury (what's happened to my partner) and DVT (my partner has also had 3 of due to crush injury) that will actually even find out about the issue! Most will never need medication or will never even know or need to worry about it!

JustinAnimal wrote: »

It was so weird to me, because I hadn't been sedentary (working out once per day, twice a day at least three times a week), I don't eat insane amounts of cruciferous veggies, I hadn't sat on a plane for 14 hours or something like that. It just happened. Turned out it just happened to dad, too, about five years earlier. I'd say getting older sucks, but I saw 16-18 year-olds at the clinic, too. Life, I suppose...

Eat lots of berries!! It has the opposite effect. My partner has had 3 dvts now and has vascular ulcers as well he had a high tension metal cable snap and wrap around his calf 15+ years ago

juggernaut1974 wrote: »

Hornsby wrote: »

I do love me some brussel sprouts. Very filling also in my opinion so that's a big plus for them.

Yeah...broccoli, brussel sprouts...fill me up brother! Love em love em love em. Spinach...arugula...gimme gimme gimme.

Kale is still the devil.

Oh what a double standard. Had you said sugar was the devil this thread would have blown up with advice that you have a bad relationship with food and you shouldn't demonize ... yadda, yadda, yadda

One of my all time favorite recipes has kale in it.

http://pinchofyum.com/sweet-potato-kale-sausage-bake-white-cheese-sauce

And a pound of italian sausage and lots of gruyere cheese...but, ya know, also kale.

I kale failed. Spinach on Tombstone today...with EVOO. Evil stuff.

One night I made a crap ton of kale chips and woke up with my throat feeling tight and itchy. I didn't really think much of it so ate kale again for lunch...itchy. Only in large quantities does it happen, but it doesn't really make me want kale anymore.

Hmm I have tried it. I even have a container of homemade kale chips next to my bed (for netflix ;-)), but I just find it too bitter. I am going to try making brussel sprout leaf salt & vinegar chips next.

Kale tastes like a hippies arm pit.

Not a big kale fan, I also prefer spinach. But I have have heard such good things about the benefits of kale, so I think if I just mix it into a super food salad, I can get used to i.

cbelc2 wrote: »

The kale in my garden is not bitter and tastes nothing like bug spray. It is sweet and luscious. I plant a variety of greens because they all taste and behave differently. My very favorite way to cook it: wash, remove center stalk, roll, and slice thinly. Put it in a skillet with a little water and olive oil and a few raisins or dried cherries and a sprinkle of salt. Put the lid on and cook over medium till tender (just a few minutes) then sprinkle on blue cheese and toasted pine nuts. Yum!!!

It has nothing to do with sourcing but how different people taste certain sulforaphanes.