1) Everything But The Kitchen Sink Asian Lettuce Cups with Almond Coconut Drizzle*
2) Pumpkin-Sesame-Sunflower-Blueberry-Apple-Hemp-Honey Date Bars
3) Cheesy Kale Chips
4) Standing Devils
Homemade kale chips are often burnt, or the opposite, undercooked and lacking that passionate crumble. But you have the power to overcome this fate.
SECRETS TO A CRISPY KALE CHIP
1) Don't just toss your raw "chips" in a bowl with oil. Quick dip (don't overload) your fingers in olive oil and rub into each chip, coating everywhere while thinking about something you love. Massage the oil onto the chips ? it feels great, and doesn't take that long to complete the task.
2) Keep the oven low, lengthen the cook time (think dehydrate, not bake), and check every now and again because some chips get done before others. You want green, not brown. And it's not a size thing; big or small chips can cook faster. It's a weight thing. The chip should feel like a feather and go cruunnnnnch as it whimsically disappears in your mouth.
So chip-chip-cheerio. While we are at Barron Park School, Snack Attack! will honor their three 2015 Future Chef "healthy snack," winners, and we'll post some fun photos from the events as they come in.
REMEMBER ? kids like to cook, and they can teach us to relax into, and enjoy it again too.
Kale Cheezy Chips
1 bunch curly kale
2 tablespoons olive oil
½ cup nutritional yeast
salt
Preheat oven to 225°F.
Lay a leaf of kale flat and cut out the rib, compost or chop finely. Cut into bite size pieces. Wash and dry well. I spin them, them put out on a baking sheet to air dry for at least a ½ hour.
Put olive oil in a bowl. Quick dip your fingers in and rub onto and into each piece, making sure they get coated everywhere. Put in a mixing bowl and toss well with nutritional yeast and salt to taste. Spread out on a baking sheet in a single layer.
Bake for 1 ? 1.25 hours till they are light and crisp. I flip them every 25 minutes. Some crisp faster than others, so remove those when they are ready. The goal is chips that are still green, not brown.
Getting ready for class
Snack Attack! students showing off their creations.
School programs are nothing without great volunteers. Thanks ladies!
* Yup- still munching almonds. But change is coming. Did I hear this right - it takes one gallon of water to grow one almond? And then today we learned that 40% of the commercial bee population (almonds' best friend) disappeared last year. California grows 100% of commercial almonds in North America. Looks like we'll be headin' back to Georgia soon.
