Kale Hipster Salad Recipe
13 August 2012 § 13 Comments
I can’t believe that it has been so long since I last posted….did anyone miss me?
Northern Spy Food Co’s Incredible Kale Salad, adapted with seasonal ingredients
So, before we get to the Kale Salad, a bit about my summer. Apart from sailing around the world three times, I’ve been busy diving for oysters in Japan, grinding coffee beans in Costa Rica, seeking the finest tea leaves from Sri Lanka and slaughtering my own organic pigs fed on a diet of barley and acorns. Oh, and I nearly forgot: I was in London at the 2012 games, representing Great Britain in the Modern Pentathlon AND the USA at beach volleyball. You may also have seen me as a nurse in the opening ceremony and one of the London Cabbies chauffeuring the Spice Girls in the closing ceremony. (Baby Spice if you must know).
Of course, the truth is far more mundane but no less involving, which is a polite way of saying I’ve been busy trying to keep The Ladies™ busy during this ludicrously long summer vacation. Thirteen bloody weeks with no school. Yes. Really. Thirteen: a baker’s dozen of weeks with two five-year olds. And that is the reason why I can but dream of pursuing a life of gourmand leisure and why I’ve written very little.
So back to food, on a recent grown-up trip to the High Line, NYC (I managed to escape without The Ladies™) I felt hip as I discovered the incredibly easy, Northern Spy‘s Kale Salad. It is so good I had to write about it in my Barista Kids What’s for Dinner? post, you can read about it here.
Aside from writing for Barista Kids, I’ve been doing a lot of grilling lately as my oven has just stopped working. So if any lovely appliance manufacturers want to offer me a discount I promise to write gushing words about your wonderful appliances. If you’re wondering how I made this epic salad without my oven – easy. I toasted the almonds and roasted the carrots on my grill. Next challenge will be baking cakes on the grill, could this be a new Olympic sport?
I certainly missed you and look forward to more exciting meals for the
autumn – on with the good work.
Annie
Can’t wait to try this!
I definitely missed you and also love the hipster title. love alice
Welcome back – I missed your posts. Love this salad!! And I think cake -grilling should definitely be a sport…perhaps in a cast iron skillet?
Hi Lil, Your reasons for being “off the air” really made me giggle! I look forward to seeing you in Rio! Love Pete/Dada.
Thanks Pete! Bring Rio 2016 on!
Hi Lil, Lol and I were in a Spanish restaurant this evening, and had some goat’s cheese with a marmalade/orange zest and chilli topping that was out of this world. Couldn’t get the recipe from the chef but it was gorgeous and something you might want to explore? Love Pete. xxxx On 14 Aug 2012, at 03:08, This little piggy went to the farmers market wrote:
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Orange zest and chili sounds so good!
How are you?
Feel fine, but it’s fractured so have lovely crutches and big bandages!
[...] So after my spectacular (and mostly fabricated) list of reasons why This Little Piggy has been quiet this summer – you know performing with the Spice Girls at the Olympics. [...]
Hi! I made the salad!! Waiting for the next post
Talk to you soon.
Just got a new stove – so will be posting lots of new things soon. How was the salad? Hope all is well.