 You know, I've always told you that I don't have much of a green thumb, but guess what? This year I have a vegetable garden It's growing and I'm so excited. I just had to show you I've got a little vegetable garden here and one thing that we've been eating out of the garden already is kale Now we know some of you are probably thinking, ooh, yuck, but I'm gonna show you how you can make kale so delicious You'll love it. So I'm just gonna take a little bit of kale from the garden And I'm gonna take some of these larger outside leaves so that my kale keeps growing The first thing I do is remove the leafy kale from the stem The stem is not great to eat. It's really tough It's bitter and it's not really the part of the kale that you want to eat So get the stems off and then I put my pieces into my spinner. That's how I wash it and rinse it dry Then I put it into a zip-top bag or a big bowl and put it in the refrigerator And it's ready to go whenever I want to make something using this kale So I'm going to show you how I just take the kale and for salads I like to chop it up a little bit put it into your bowl and Now this is the critical part for making delicious kale Kale is part of the cruciferous family. So just like cabbage cauliflower broccoli. So it can be a little bit bitter and You'll see how I'm going to really just add a little bit of lemon juice The acid will help tenderize the kale And a little bit of salt just to add some friction because now I'm going to work it with my hands You might call it a massage. I'm massaging the kale and what this will do is really tenderize the kale and just kind of break it down and Get rid of that bitter flavor that it sometimes has it turns a beautiful green. Mmm. Oh This is perfect. So now it's ready to turn into a salad. You can add whatever you want I sometimes add a little red cabbage and maybe some avocado and chickpeas and maybe some toasted pine nuts With a little honey mustard vinaigrette, but you add whatever you want because this is the season of bounty There's so many choices. So give your kale a massage and enjoy every bite I'm Sue Dodin sharing good food for good life 365