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| Topic Started: Oct 30 2012, 06:54 AM (334 Views) | |
| Dana | Oct 30 2012, 06:54 AM Post #1 |
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Have you seen these for sale yet? I noticed them at the health food store recently and tried a package. Not too thrilled with the ranch flavouring they used but liked the idea and am trying out different things with it after reading the ingredients. So far, I have dried the chips and then applied the 'dressing' of ground pumpkin and sesame seeds plus nutritional and brewer's yeast (as found at health food stores) and some olive and sesame oils. (Dressing the leaves with the oil seems to make the coating stick.) Friends who have tried them reach for more. You don't need a dehydrator to make kale chips, the oven on 150 F works too. You need something so the bits don't fall thru the racks as the thick stems need to be removed from the leaves. I have been using bamboo sushi rolling mats as the temp is so low. Here's one recipe but I haven't tried this method though it looks interesting. http://alittleinsanity.com/raw-kale-chips-vitamix-dehydrator/ another, using the oven http://plantpoweredkitchen.com/oven-dehydrated-kale-chips-no-dehydrator-needed/ I see many recipes online. Lots of experimenting for the future and kale is easy to grow or relatively cheap to buy. The curly kales hold more stuff. Edited by Dana, Oct 30 2012, 06:56 AM.
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| Kahu | Oct 30 2012, 12:32 PM Post #2 |
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I simply can't imagine Kale chips! That's one of the fodder crops we feed to dairy cows and cattle, the sheep can graze the stalks right down to ground level too. Ornamental Kale is used by local authorities as a low cost self caring decorative plant for road traffic berms. Now we do have Kumara Chips! (Sweet potato) and Kumara Wedges. |
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| Dana | Oct 30 2012, 01:08 PM Post #3 |
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Sweet potatoes at least have vitamins in them, unlike potatoes commercially grown in NA that have the vitamins bred out of them now. In 3rd world countries sweet potatoes are being promoted over our regulars for the vitamin content. Poor people shouldn't waste their money on the other sort. http://www.hki.org/reducing-malnutrition/biofortification/orange-fleshed-sweetpotatoes/ They taste good and once I realized they have more vitamin content than yams, I quit yams. They are great roasted in wedges with oil etc. I use a blender to pulverize them, along with other veg to add to soups. They add subtle flavour and a little body. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone here using kale as animal fodder. It grows thru the winters here fairly well and the flavour improves a lot when frosted once or twice. Being part of the cole family it has all the same health benefits though I wonder how much they retain when dehydrated. Wow. Read and wonder why more people aren't eating that sprig of garnish. http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4408/Top-10-Health-Benefits-of-Eating-Kale.html I'd rather have it raw ( nice eaten Greek salad style) but there are more benefits available from kale when it is cooked.
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/the-truth-about-kale It wasn't always commonly sold here but its popularity has grown over the years. I always have it in the garden, an old standby and when the flower stalks come up in the spring they are so sweet and juicy! A lovely spring treat raw, or cooked I guess. Oh, and yes, hummingbirds feed on the bright yellow green flowers when they bloom. By that time the hummies are wanting some flowers again. The wee birds cannot live by bugs alone. |
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| Kahu | Oct 30 2012, 01:36 PM Post #4 |
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Chou Moellier and Kale: The green crops grown under these names are both members of the kale family; chou moellier is known in England as marrow-stemmed kale. The crop grown as kale in New Zealand is known in England as thousand-headed kale. Stock relish the stems of chou moellier, but this plant tends to drop its leaves during winter. Kale, while having a fibrous, unpalatable stem, is more hardy and carries its leaves well throughout the winter. Two-thirds of the total chou moellier crop is grown in the North Island. Kale (about only a tenth of the total chou moellier crop), is grown mostly in Southland and Otago. These crops are grown mainly for winter feeding, though chou moellier has come into favour recently as an alternative to rape for lamb fattening and as a cattle feed in late summer. Kale may be used similarly. Crops of chou moellier and kale which are not needed for late-autumn feeding can be reserved for use in winter. Crops lightly grazed in early summer will recover to provide winter feed. Kale and chou moellier crops are more resistant than other brassica crops to clubroot and dry rot and are not so subject to insect attack. Heavy crops of chou moellier are best cut and fed out as required, though less labour is needed if the cut crop is left to be eaten where it falls and the standing portion protected by an electric fence. If it is intended to feed the crop in breaks, fencing is made easier if swedes are drilled in the lines where the fences will later be placed. Source Link |
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