Fifty Shades of Kale: 50 Fresh & Satisfying Recipes That are Bound to Please
By Drew Ramsey and Jennifer Iserloh
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Kale gets sexy in Fifty Shades of Kale by Drew Ramsey, M.D., and Jennifer Iserloh, with 50 recipes that are mouth-wateringly delicious and do a body good.
Release yourself from the bondage of guilt and start cooking meals with the ingredients you love: meat, cheese, and yes—even butter. Nutrient-rich kale provides essential vitamins and minerals to keep you healthy, happy, and lean—so you can indulge in your most delicious desires. Whether you’re a cooking novice or a real kale submissive, you will undoubtedly succumb to Kale’s charms.
From Mushroom and Kale Risotto to Kale Kiwi Gazpacho, Fifty Shade of Kale offers simple ways to have your kale and eat it, too, as well as nutritional information, cooking tips, and a tutorial on kale in all her glorious shades.
Indulge your culinary passions with Fifty Shades of Kale: 50 Fresh and Satisfying Recipes That Are Bound to Please.
Drew Ramsey
Drew Ramsey, MD @DrewRamseyMD is a psychiatrist, author, and farmer. His work focuses on clinical excellence, nutritional interventions and creative media. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and in active telemedicine clinical practice based in New York City. His work has been featured by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lancet Psychiatry, The Today Show, BBC, and NPR and he has given three TEDx talks. He is the co-author of the Antidepressant Food Scale and his e-courses on Nutritional Psychiatry education for the public and clinicians. His books Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety (Harperwave 2021), Eat Complete, 50 Shades of Kale, and The Happiness Diet explore the connections between mental health and nutrition. He is on the Advisory Board at Men’s Health, the Editorial Board at Medscape Psychiatry, and is a member of the Well+Good Wellness Council. He splits his time between New York City and Crawford County, Indiana where he lives with his wife and children on their organic farm and forest.
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Reviews for Fifty Shades of Kale
6 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The name is silly, but I had high hopes that I'd find some tasty kale recipes here. Sadly, I just didn't find any of these recipes enticing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good. Carried the theme all the way through the book. That was a bit annoying, but well done.
Excellent recipes but... some just seemed like, "Here is my fajita recipe, so I am going to throw in some kale."
But they also had chocolate chip kale cookies and some nice smoothies.
The recipes are thorough with ingredient descriptions, steps to make and nutritional info. Very nice indeed.
Book preview
Fifty Shades of Kale - Drew Ramsey
Dedication
To our muse and mistress, Kale.
May she seduce and satisfy you.
Contents
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION
1. SUBMIT TO HER CHARMS
2. MORNING QUICKIES
3. SMALL BITES
4. VEGETARIAN BLISS
5. GET SATISFIED
6. NAUGHTY AND NICE
METRIC CONVERSION CHART
RESOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Introduction
Nothing is sexier than a sharp, happy mind atop a lean, healthy body. Few foods are able to deliver this promise like kale. She is the ideal plant in many ways: hardy and easy to grow, nutrient dense, and delicious.
Kale is the queen of the cruciferous vegetables, a family of superfoods packed with nutritional benefits. She delivers a huge dose of vitamin K* (with more than 600 percent of your daily allowance per serving), and plays a starring role in supporting brain and bone health.
She offers more vitamin C than an orange, more pro-vitamin A than any other leafy green, and a tiny one-cup serving has close to three times as much calcium as a school lunch–size carton of milk. The fats are in perfect ratio—in fact the main source of fat in kale is omega-3 fat, which is essential for optimum health. With just one cup, kale brings a whopping 121 mg of the core omega-3, alpha-linoleic acid (ALA), to the table.
But it is her lesser-known qualities that enchant and hold us prisoner. In addition to offering a bounty of vitamins and minerals, kale possesses a veritable medicine chest of healthy molecules known as phytonutrients. These plant-based molecules travel from the end of your fork to the very center of your cells, where they turn on genes that boost your body’s natural ability to detox. The sulforaphane in kale helps to protect against diseases like cancer and diabetes. Her flavonoids—responsible for her many deep colors—offer a boost to cardiac health and your immune system.
Ultimately, this book aims to release you from the bondage of guilt—to encourage you to prepare and eat decadent-tasting foods that are also good for you. Kale not only offers a wide array of health benefits, it also helps you to stay lean. At only 33 calories per cup, kale offers a lot of nutrient value for very few calories. And because the nutrients in kale become more bioavailable (able to be absorbed and utilized by your body) when paired with other specific nutrients, you’ll find that you can indulge in foods you might typically consider sinful. The recipes in this book will show you how to cook with ingredients like butter, eggs, red meat, and pasta in a healthy manner. So whether you’re a cooking novice and want to start with a one-day love affair or a real kale submissive, you will undoubtedly succumb to her charms. And with fifty kale-centric recipes, like Hot Bacon Kale, Spicy Mussels with Kale, and Kale and Black Cherry Sorbet . . . resistance is futile.
The best sensual relationships require discipline to thrive. When it comes to cooking with kale, it’s important to treat her with respect, and to pair her with the best-quality ingredients you are able to find, such as grass-fed beef and eggs from pasture-raised hens. Just like anything truly sexy, these fifty recipes are both exciting and tasteful. If you are ready to be turned on to the healthier, sexier you, here are a few guidelines to help you maximize the benefits (and flavor) of kale.
Try to use organic kale whenever possible. Kale was recently added to the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen
list of vegetables most likely to contain pesticides, so it’s worth the extra expense to buy organic.
Treat your kale with care. Despite her hearty exterior, kale is tender and fragile. Don’t leave her out on the countertop or prewash her too far in advance—nobody likes a limp vegetable.
Store your kale in the crisper, loosely gathered in a plastic bag. Add a paper towel or wrap her in a dry paper towel to trap excess moisture and keep her fresher and fuller longer.
Don’t overcook your kale. Not only will the taste and texture suffer from overexposure to heat, but she will lose some of her nutrient value if cooked for too long. As a rule of thumb, ten minutes is the maximum amount of time you want to expose kale to direct heat. For pan cooking, use a small metal lid to gently press down the kale as you turn it.
Fifty Shades of Kale
OK, so it’s not quite fifty . . . but kale does come close to offering fifty shades of variety. Cornell University lists forty-eight known kale varietals providing you with a vast world of kale to explore. From deep purples and vibrant greens to translucent whites and radiant pinks, all are members of the cruciferous vegetable family, which includes other so-called superfoods like broccoli, bok choy, and Brussels sprouts.
All crucifers evolved from cabbage and thus all bear the same scientific name, Brassica oleracea. Kale belongs to the Acephala group of crucifers, literally meaning no head,
as, unlike cabbage and broccoli, kale leaves aren’t formed around a central head.
Each variety of kale offers unique flavor notes, color, and texture. Here is a brief overview of the varieties that are used in the recipes in this book. These are some of the most common varietals and should be easy to find at the grocery store or at your local farmers’ markets.
Curly Green
This is the classic varietal that most people think of when they hear the word kale. It’s also probably the most common one found in your grocery store. With curly leaves and a firm body, curly kale will work well in all the recipes that follow. Its leaves have a mild flavor and they crisp up nicely when roasted in the oven, making them ideal for recipes like Roasted Kale Chips and Dark Tropical Kiss.
Lacinato
Lacinato kale (aka dinosaur kale) has deep green, narrow leaves with wrinkled raised bumps that look vaguely reptilian. It’s widely available in most grocery stores, and, like curly kale, can be used in almost any recipe that calls for kale. It’s the most pungent-tasting of the varieties and