Warm Kale Salad with Peppers and Onions

A recent favorite recipe to whip up has been what I'm calling Warm Kale Salad. I'm not sure about the techincal details of what constitutes a salad, but this one includes greens as a base with other featured vegetables, which is good enough in my book to qualify as salad-esque.

My mother-in-law can take the real credit here; she first made a version of this for us years ago, and I remembered it this year as I began drowning in a sea of abundant kale. It's another Kale-hiding recipe, which I am fond of, as I like kale in small pieces in tandem with other veggies.

Without further ado..

Warm Kale Salad with Pepper and Onions

Ingredients:
3 large Kale leaves, de-stemmed and chopped up

1 large Red Pepper, cored and sliced into strips

1 small onion, peeled and chopped

1 cup of corn

2 tsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper

1 clove garlic, minced

1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

 

Directions:

Heat the oil in a frying pan on medium heat

Add the onions and the peppers to the pan once the oil has heat, let the peppers sear on the fire.

When the peppers start to get nice and tender, add the corn, and the garlic to the pan. 

Once the corn has cooked for 2-3 minutes, add in the kale, pepper, and salt, and stir for 1 minute.

Empty the mixture onto a plate.

Serve and Enjoy!

Silent Sunday

Newest backyard bed- Speckles Lettuce and Leeks

Sugar Snap Peas

Mountain Rose Potatoes curing before they are planted

Salad- Spinach from the farm at work, lettuce from at the garden at home!

Happy Sunday :)

Dark Days Challenge Week 10- Spinach & Feta Salad

This is so easy, I know. But if you can find local spinach at your Farmers' Market or Co-op, this is a super-quick, easy dinner that is just simple and delicious. It's been one of my favorite dishes to throw together at the end of a long day, and it has everything one could want- lots of greens, a little bit of cheese, some texture from the nuts and apples. Spinach should be available in a lot of northern places by now, and this is a great salad to feature it in!

Spinach & Feta Salad

Ingredients:
3 cups fresh spinach
source: Ferris Farm, Dixboro, MI
1 2" block of Feta Cheese
source: Greystone Creamery, Chelsea MI
2 handfuls Dried cranberries
source: MI cranberries dried at Ypsi Food Co-op
3/4 cup walnuts
source: California :(

1 cup sliced Golden Delicious Apples

source: Wassem's Fruit Farm, Milan, MI

   


Directions:

• Chop up Spinach, dice apples, crush walnuts, crumble Feta cheese
• Mix together in a large bowl, and add dried cranberries and dressing of your choice.

 Serve & Enjoy!