365 Days of Kale: Recipe: I found the missing carrots!
I am starting the pleasant but mind-intensive job of updating my website www.CancerRD.com and combining it with my 3 blogs, so there will be one landing place for me, my thoughts, plus all my various readers. My brain has been jumping around, back and forth, for years, too long. This was made crystal clear to me last week with the phone call from one of my readers telling me about the missing carrots from one of my kale recipes, and I could not immediately figure out or find the recipe she was calling about!
Silly me, I just assumed the recipe was on my kale blog - not! No, it was on my original website www.CancerRD.com, which has hundreds of recipes (and now a non-functioning search function (arghhhh!). However, the Universe must have smiled on me this afternoon, because I accidentally found the recipe my caller told me about.
Here it is, complete with the carrots in the ingredients AND the directions. It turns out that I modified the original recipe, adding the carrots myself, thus the omission of the carrots from the directions is my own oversight.
• Add onions and carrots, a pinch of salt, and sauté until golden about 10 minutes.
• Add the kale and another pinch of salt.
• Cook only one minute until kale turns bright green.
• Immediately remove the pan from the heat.
• In a blender, add 1/3 of the broth, 1/3 of the thawed broccoli, and 1/3 of the kale mixture.
• Blend until smooth. Watch carefully so to not over-blend. When the mixture turns from light green to bright green, turn off the blender.
• Pour into a clean pan and repeat until all ingredients are blended.
• With the last batch, add the lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and maple syrup.
• Stir all together, reheat very gently and serve immediately.
If there is any left, this soup is also great the next morning right out of the refrigerator (seriously! I have done this). Rebecca Katz states that this soup will not freeze well because the brilliant color is lost. So, make a batch and eat your greens with a spoon, warm or cold!
Where kale (with added carrots) is more than decoration on my plate!