So, for some reason, even though I've recently started working full-time hours at work, I have been motivated to cook real dinners for myself. Or at least a real main dish. I have featured two of these below:
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The artichokes I got from my garden
and marinated myself. |
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| The pizza I made using my artichokes, basil, and some farmers market tomatoes, peppers, swiss chard, and turkey sausage and then I bought some feta cheese from good old TJ's to throw on top! A-ma-zing. Quite easily the best pizza I've ever had. Oh yeah, and the bread is Italian herb focaccia bread I also got from TJ's and just sliced in half and oiled with my farmers market buttery olive oil. |
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| Kale...also from the farmers market and my first time trying it actually! |
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Pecans, garlic, lemon, nutmeg and freshly
grated parmesan cheese to go with it! |
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White beans (sure wish I had actually
cooked them long enough...) |
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| My almost superb beans and kale. Ha! Not too shabby though. Kale turned out to be completely edible. I was worried since it's green and supposed to be pretty good for you. Happily, it's quite mild with a good texture to boot! |
Yum! I've never cooked with kale. What's it like? Do you cook it or leave it uncooked? Do you think you could substitute lettuce for it? (If so I'd like the recipe...we've got a ton of lettuce on our hands and are ready for some variety.)
ReplyDeleteYou pretty much use kale in place of spinach and vice versa. I don't know how it would do with lettuce. You kind of saute it a little and it's served warm. I bet you could figure out a cold version with lettuce, though!
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