I originally disliked kale, but a year eating Spring Mix with baby kale changed my tastebuds. I always put the stems in my smoothies. Nutrition and fiber combined! I add chopped leaves to soups, tomatoes sauces, etc. Wonderful flavor and nutrition. I just wash and dry and store whole in my old Tupperware celery keeper with a dry paper towel on top. Lovely video. Best wishes for continued success. I try to watch every video you have made.
I love your chopper! I know you have showed it before, but I loved the way it chopped the kale. Also, the method you used to get the leaves off the stem…I like the method of starting in the middle of the stem. Very helpful!
This kale is my favorite, too. Once I prep it, I then add a thinned down hummus with a squeeze of lemon. I keep it in a large glass Tupperware container in the fridge. I flip it throughout the day. I add chopped red bell peppers, diced carrots and diced red onions. So easy and tasty. Thanks for this prep video. The Krocks rock!!! ♥️
With all the veggie's you eat I'm surprised I haven't seen a "make your own stock from veggie scraps" recipe. All my stems, peels, ends, etc. go in a bag in the freezer and then into a pot of water at some point. It makes the best stock! It's always different. We make the stock, strain through cheese cloth and then taste to see what it wants to become.
I don’t why I didn’t think to use the stems in a smoothie! Save the leaves for salads. I try to always use broccoli stems in some way. Excellent video.
I love the convenience of the pre-chopped greens. I usually eat them in soups, stews, etc., stems and all. Lately I've been getting a "green trio" collard, mustard, and turnip blend. Lately I have been working on getting away from "store bought" stuff like canned beans, boxed vegetable broth, etc., and making my own. I'm also starting to get into canning and dehydrating. I want to start shopping more at a local weekly farmer's market and less at grocery stores. With that goal I need to give up the convenience of pre-chopped greens and start prepping them for use myself. Not only will it save money, but it will give me a larger selection of greens to choose from. Thank you for this video. It couldn't have come at a better time. I was just recently thinking of the need to make the switch to buying whole greens.
Thank you for featuring this “new to me” kale. I got some and I love it! Very easy to prep and delicious! I appreciate all you and Brian do for the WFPB community ❤️
I have to buy the chopped curly kale in the bag. The leaf bunch is kinda limp at my store. It’s a huge bag and takes 45 minutes to pick through. I don’t wash. I then use my S blade in my food processor and pulse 10 times. Sooo nice and chopped. Kale is my favorite. My dog likes the stems.
I've been buying organic chopped frozen kale to include in my cooked meals, but this is a great idea, and can be eaten raw. Nice to have options. Running the rolled up kale through the chopper is pretty cool. Probably not in the budget right now, but I have a knife, and don't mind chopping. Thanks for the ideas.
Jessica you are so cute! I love your enthusiasm! I have not been a fan of kale at all but today I bought some of this amazing kind you talk about and love and I watched this video to see what to do with it! Now I'm going to give it a try!!! That hash brown breakfast casserole Brian just came up with looks amazing! Thank you to both of you for all the hard work you do!!! I love your videos!!! Keep up the amazing work!
When you cook kale, the stems are tender and okay to eat. If you eat it raw, you can slide a knife along the stem and the whole side of the leaf comes right off. I’ll try your method next time and see if it’s easier. I usually cook it though. I like it with olive oil and garlic and maybe some navy beans. Yes!
I have lots in my garden, its eaay to grow and harvest it late in the seaaon. I wash, leave ro dry, cut into strips, place on parchment lined sheets, place in the freezer for a few hours. Then bag into ziplock bags, one sheet at a time.
I love the sticks! Gives it more crunch. I dislike buying the pre-bagged because it’s just more expensive and it ends up being so much and it goes to waste. 😔
geat job jessica!! i always add the stems (chopped) as the first thing to saute with the onion for soups and other things until they're tender. i've also water sauteed them until they were tenderish and adding garlic and other seasonings for a side dish. blending them with fruit for smoothies... my compost's worms and microbes also enjoy the stem ends, too.
*mind blown* I didn't know you could chop kale in the chopper thingy! I have one of those, thanks to watching you salad prep all those colorful veggies. I guess I know what Ill be trying this weekend....lol.
Good job with the kale! Years ago there was a vegan woman on RU-vid and she made the most delicious kale salad. You can’t find the recipe anymore because she didn’t have that many views. All these other people like Martha Stewart now trump it out of coming up so. But the bulk of the salad is that you take the Dino kale and massage a little bit of oil into the pieces. then you take an avocado and stir it in with some lemon juice. I know you would think it would be lime juice but it’s not. One time I made it and used lime. It was not good😂 Then use salt and pepper, put as many green onion tops as you would like in the salad. I haven’t made it in years and I think that that’s correct. At least that is the correct base of the salad and it is really good.
thanks for the veggie chopper trick... I have one but never thought about using it for anything other than onions, green, red, yellow peppers. I would love to see more tips like this1
This is a great video! Good point about all the short storms in pre-cleaned and chopped kale. I’ll never buy that again. Pulling off is a great technique. I always massage my kale. Chop the stems and use for soup or chili.
Thank you so much for this. I like kale but don’t use it much because of the bother. I love it raw,but usually buy the bags and steam it. I will definitely do this but don’t have the chopper or the spinner but will figure out a way. I like to massage with lemon juice. Yum. Happy you are back 😀
Thanks for your videos. I enjoy them. I put kale 🥬 or lettuce 🥬 or spinach in bowl & use my special scissors ✂️ to cut it up. Works perfect every time & it’s easy & doesn’t take any time. 😃
@@KrocksInTheKitchen Thanks, I don't know how I miss it! Looking forward to more recipes, I need to up my kale game. I love all you do. Enjoy your working vacation!
This is a great video! fyi - if you have a second bowl handy, it is better to remove the kale in handfuls by lifting it out of water, which allows the dirt and bugs to drop to bottom of bowl with water i it… then rinse it in second bowl and pull out into first bowl. ready for spinning.
My corgis 🐾🐾 LOVE the kale stems!😋😋 Super video! Thank You for sharing! Unfortunately my local grocery store does not have dinosaur kale. I will have to check other grocery stores in my area.
Jessica, did you always like Kale?? I just don’t like it 😵 I keep trying but yuck. Please tell me I may learn to love it, lol. And how do you fix it to help like it? Also you look great!!
Jessica I bought the same chopper but of course some how managed to cut myself! Not surprised! I tend to be very accident prone in the kitchen! 🤦🏻♀️ I think I saw you touch the blades from the inside. Hope they were not sharp on that side but thank you for the heart attack you gave me, girlfriend! 😅
Do you ever freeze kale? I assume if it has to be frozen, like if you have waaay too much kale, that it should maybe be blanched first, but I don't know what works best.
OK so I’m going to comment and make you jealous! Just kidding. But my son used to be in a band, well two actually. Both got signed. Well unless you’re big you don’t make any money any longer. And they never got that big. So he decided to become a photographer instead. Well he is a really good photographer. Well since he used to be a rockstar and everybody knows him, like tons of people. The people at the radio station have hired him because he’s an excellent photographer! He will be taking all of the radio stations pictures with the bands that come through. The very first band he is going to shoot is Bon Jovi!
I haven't watched krocks in the kitchen for a while and it is obvious that Jessica has stopped eating totally plant based foods again. What is up with that Jessica? I am not trying to shame you because we all know how hard it is to stick with any diet, but why are you still making it look like that is all you guys eat?
It's funny you should say that. She's actually been 100% for the last 3 months and counting. Last year she and I both spiraled pretty hard, but we are doing really great right now. 😀
@@KrocksInTheKitchen That is great! I just thought she looked a little bigger compared to the last video I saw of her walking in the park about a year ago.
