Does anyone actually like kale?

I LOVE KALE!
It’s honestly one of my favorite foods.
Of all time.

Hate kale. Will eat it if it's hidden in a smoothie. Google some healthy veggie recipes. Keep trying until you find some you can stand.

How many of you kale haters are getting tender kale straight from the garden? I agree that mature kale that was picked long ago is practically inedible, especially if it was also chopped.

If you want to give it another try but don't have access to garden-fresh kale, try baby kale.

I have 30-60 grams of kale in smoothies. (When 30 g, there's another 30 g of Swiss chard.)

I use kale in Thai Beef Salad. I let the kale marinate for an hour or so. I also like kale salad with EVOO, vinegar, tuna, carrots, and cheddar cheese.

I also like https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015085-pasta-with-anchovies-garlic-chiles-and-kale

In soup season, I've made something similar to "Easy Portuguese Kale Soup": https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/232405/easy-portuguese-kale-soup/ which is also a staple at the soup bar in one of my local supermarkets.

I like baby kale but not the large leaves. I eat it in a salad with a cherry balsamic vinaigrette from
Nordstrom Cafe’ or in my green smoothie with pineapple and coconut water.

Roasted and salted with Parmesan or feta... actually a huge fan!

Put Kale in your smoothie! I’m not a big fan of fresh kale as it’s tough to chew and when I had it cooked, all those good vitamins get blanched out of it, so not getting the benefits really. I add about a cup or more shredded fresh to my morning smoothies and when I do it regularly have noticed a positive difference in my skin.

pinuplove wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Trying new things is laudable, especially trying new things several times, in different ways, to give them a fair chance.

I liked kale right off, and I like it in various ways. I had a big serving in a stir fry just a couple of days ago. But I don't know any prep methods that make it taste unlike itself.

I think you've given kale a fair chance, so it's OK to move on and try something else.

This. I don't like kale but do like spinach, another food I never ate growing up. I also don't like quinoa, so I don't eat it

Keep trying new things, though! The next one might be a winner.

@pinuplove
I love kale salad, hate spinach, love quinoa.
If we ever do meet, let’s agree not to go out for salad together. Lol.

Op I agree with you and everyone else. Kale tastes like kale. If you don’t like it, don’t eat it.

hi all of you non kale lovers! I never like kale untilllllll- I started chopping it up in small pieces and adding it to bean soups, not much taste and getting vitamins. Also I like to put part kale into my veggie lasagna subbing for some of the spinach...also in spanokopita. For spanokopita I use part olive oil and part butter to cut down on the satfat. Another trick with kale because I think it is a super veg is to steam it just a little and add to salad with a good balsamic vinegar. I think that small amounts are not overwhelming and it can take up to sixty tries before a person embraces a new food. Worked for me with olives and other foods that I did not love right away.

I like it if it's in a smoothy!

This had me rolling. I hate kale and have tried many times to add it into my diet but... WHY? Mainly because it is touted as being a "super food" which is a bunch of hype. Once I researched nutrition, I learned that every whole food provides nutritional benefits. If you don't like something, don't eat it. I strongly dislike most vegetables and find that blending them with fruits makes them edible. That works for me but not everyone. Ultimately, this is about making life long changes. Do what works for you, don't force things 😊👍

I don't there's a vegetable I don't like, except kale...the devil's weeds

kshama2001 wrote: »

...I agree that mature kale that was picked long ago is practically inedible, especially if it was also chopped. ...If you want to give it another try but don't have access to garden-fresh kale, try baby kale.

Agree.

I like kale, but I'm from the South and my grandparents had a farm: I ate tons of collard greens growing up and both kale and collards are in the acephala group. So I tend to eat kale greens the way I do collards, which is to say:

1) I buy them from a local organic* grower, who has
2) picked them young, while they are still tender and I
3) eat them while they are really fresh.

Also, bitter greens are much better, IMHO, in the winter, when they have undergone a frost. I would never eat collards, or kale, in the summer as they are out of season. Again, just my opinion.

In my family collards were made the traditional way: cleaned**, chopped, and stewed with side meat for many hours. I try to be a little more healthy in the way I cook mine, so I stir fry them sans side meat. But if collards are stir fried it really is important to cut out the tough veins, which I do. Then they get cooked with some tamari, toasted sesame oil, and vinegar. OMG they are so good.

In fact, even though I like kale OK, I usually end up eating collards because they are more available and cheaper. I have never understood this movement to make kale some kind of special superfood. It is not more super than collards. I pretty much agree with this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/the-plate/2016/october/collards-vs-kale-and-other-superstar-supergreens/

*I don't taste a difference with organic in regards to most veggies, but for some reason it does make a difference with bitter greens... again, just my experience/opinion.

**The main reason I do not eat more greens, because any decent greens come out of the field with lots of dirt on them and take an inordinate amount of time to wash. And if they come prewashed, in a plastic bag, then you know they are not fresh. So no, that is not an option.

In mash potatoes. Yes.

Kale, collards, turnip greens - love them all! But NOT raw. We cook them southern style, for a long time until soft, with a tsp. of bacon grease added to the pot.