Kale and bacon soup is delicious, kale and bacon pasta bake is good, kale as a side vegetable is hugely improved by a scattering of snippets of bacon. We had a glut of kale in the garden one year and our consumption of bacon increased accordingly.
My wife, looking into the garden, has just seen a large rat. Ugh! (We've had them before, but not recently).
Dunno how they go with kale, but ketchup is definitely needed.
We used to keep rats as pets (captivity-bred, fancy rats, not ones dragged up out of a sewer ) and they used to love eating raw kale, particularly as youngsters. In fact, they ate it with such gusto that I tried it myself once. Only once . I've never tried cooking it, but quite a few things are improved by frying in butter.
We had a bumper crop of kale in 2022. In 2023, various garden pests realised that someone was actually taking care of the garden again, and our kale was attacked by two different types of caterpillar (one very large), then small snails, and finally pigeons. So we haven’t eaten anywhere near as much of it.
... kale as a side vegetable is hugely improved by a scattering of snippets of bacon ...
Most things are improved by a scattering of bacon.
I vaguely remember having kale as a side veg in a pub somewhere in the depths of Suffolk, having never had it before, and thinking it was surprisingly edible. I can't remember what it was flavoured with though, but I don't think it was bacon.
BF, thanks for the explanation - I'm not sure it would be something I'd want to try, as to me all that is required for BEANS is TOAST - no other additives (not even bacon!), and I don't actually like beans with breakfast - they get all mixed up with the egg whites, which is imho Not Very Nice.
I'm just not sure how you'd heat it up without the layers merging into each other, though I suppose you could stick the opened tin into the oven then eat the contents with a spoon out of the can to avoid scrambled dinner on the plate. It is aimed at gamers who don't want to break off from playing, I believe.
We have coffee after church some Sundays, and it is a good time for getting tom know each other. I do partake ("half a cup, please") but then have some decent coffee when I'm home (where we never drink instant coffee except in the direst emergency!)
We find plain black tea (which is how we drink it at home) to be the safest when at an after-church, theatre interval etc event.
TICTH Scaffolding. Our building is surrounded by the stuff while they replace the cladding. Not only does it cut out a lot of natural light, it plays havoc with my phone signal. Oh, and the total lack of privacy while they’re working unless we shut the curtains which cuts down even more light. It’s going to be up for about 30 weeks apparently.
Where I used to live, the bathroom had a skylight. When next door (a taller house) had scaffolding put up to fix their chimneys, the workmen had a very good view of my loo - and I didn't have any way to fix curtains on the skylight!
I’ve been meaning to fit a roller blind to the window in the kitchen ever since we moved here nearly 8 years ago. Now that we’ve got people working right outside the window, I’ve got around to buying one and hope to fit it over the weekend
Good luck with that. Fitting blinds in my house is a nightmare, as the windows have concrete lintels. Even professional fitters have sworn as they struggled.
I had the opposite problem in the last house I *owned* - the walls never seemed to be strong enough to take the weight of even a small roller blind or curtain-rod...it was a little terraced house c1900, but I suspect it was the weight of the houses on either side that kept it upright...
I need to get new blinds for the kitchen and sitting-room; when my nephew did the decorating, I asked him to ditch them, as they weren't very good (the one in the sitting-room got stuck on "closed" and I had to tie it up with string ...). I want proper ones that you just need to pull on one cord to put them up, and the other one to put them down.
Where I used to live, the bathroom had a skylight. When next door (a taller house) had scaffolding put up to fix their chimneys, the workmen had a very good view of my loo - and I didn't have any way to fix curtains on the skylight!
Did you take an umbrella in with you?
We had the same problem for a day or two when they were putting on the new roof. Don't know who thought it was a great idea to put five large windows in the bathroom plus a skylight.
Windows in the SHOWER.... (which of course had glass doors all around, and the neighbor's eye-level driveway five feet away out the shower windows)
I’ve been meaning to fit a roller blind to the window in the kitchen ever since we moved here nearly 8 years ago. Now that we’ve got people working right outside the window, I’ve got around to buying one and hope to fit it over the weekend
But which weekend? Nearly the end of Saturday here, and no start yet on any of the work planned for the weekend
Took the dog out for a walk. A little drizzle of rain. Five minutes in the sky opened up, rain poured down and the wind was unbelievable. I tried to get the dog to hurry home, she was fine wondered what my concern was, and stopped to sniff. Wet rain did not seem to bother her while a bath is a very scary thing.
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There is a lovely Portuguese soup, which can be made with kale, called "Caldo Verde". Highly recommended!
Dunno how they go with kale, but ketchup is definitely needed.
And bacon. Don't forget the bacon.
( with reluctant apologies to Thomas Stearnes Eliot)
We used to keep rats as pets (captivity-bred, fancy rats, not ones dragged up out of a sewer
@Piglet - a Tin Of All-Day Breakfast consisteth mostly of BAKED BEANS, with a couple of small SOSSIDGES, some MUSHROOMS, and bits of BACON...
I usually add a dash of Worcester Sauce, and accompany the feast with some BREAD (perhaps toasted) and BUTTER.
I vaguely remember having kale as a side veg in a pub somewhere in the depths of Suffolk, having never had it before, and thinking it was surprisingly edible. I can't remember what it was flavoured with though, but I don't think it was bacon.
BF, thanks for the explanation - I'm not sure it would be something I'd want to try, as to me all that is required for BEANS is TOAST - no other additives (not even bacon!), and I don't actually like beans with breakfast - they get all mixed up with the egg whites, which is imho Not Very Nice.
Straining the definition of "Christmas Dinner", and indeed "Dinner" almost to breaking point.
Scrambled egg and bacon
Two mince pies
Turkey and potatoes
Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Brussels sprouts (or broccoli) and stuffing
Roast carrots and parsnips
Christmas pudding.
How quite, quite revolting
No, that is just wrong in so many ways.
Where can I buy a tin?
Afraid you might have to wait until nearer the time. It is a seasonal delicacy, after all.
I think a "disconnect your irony meter" warning was required there.
Aren't most delicacies revolting things hallowed by time?
Hugely calorific, too.
We find plain black tea (which is how we drink it at home) to be the safest when at an after-church, theatre interval etc event.
Did you take an umbrella in with you?
We had the same problem for a day or two when they were putting on the new roof. Don't know who thought it was a great idea to put five large windows in the bathroom plus a skylight.
Windows in the SHOWER.... (which of course had glass doors all around, and the neighbor's eye-level driveway five feet away out the shower windows)
But which weekend? Nearly the end of Saturday here, and no start yet on any of the work planned for the weekend
Same here.
Squelchland Mudland Arkland is getting rather damp...and I need to go out shopping soon...