Hail to the kale

Posted by Lisa on December 15th, 2005 — Posted in Misc

Now that Steve and I joined the co-op organic hippie farm, we get fresh fruit and veggies once a week. I go to Innatura to pick them up on Tuesdays. Innatura is a health food store here in La Serena that sells yummy vegetarian lunches and a variety of health foods. This is also where you can get tofu and great yogurt made fresh at the store. I’m really enjoying belonging to the farm, I like working on it, and we get stuff that I never have really had before, or never think to buy. This week we got dinosaur kale, red bibb lettuce, beets, some type of green beans, yellow squash, cilantro and swiss chard. Since we don’t eat beets, and have a garden full of cilantro out back, we gave them to Leonore. Last week, I had taken my goods out of the fridge for a party and forgot all about them and left them in a drawer. Of course, they all went bad and stunk. This week, I was determined not to let that happen. So today, I went kale crazy and used up all the kale. I made a polenta and kale dish and I made a soup similar to the soup from Olive Garden. They were both wonderful, though Steve didn’t try the polenta dish. Since I had made the yummy soup, I decided to completely copy the meal we would normally get at Olive Garden, and made a homemade alfredo sauce to dip some garlic bread in. Delish!!! I still do try to get the farmers market at least once a week to add to our organic produce.

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