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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 20 – Winter Greens

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Shawn and Simon dig out from December’s snowpocalypse and bring with them a bounty of beautiful, bitter, brassicas. 

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Alexis Sawyer’s Shilling Cookery For The People: https://www.amazon.ca/Shilling-Cookery-People-Embracing-Entirely/dp/1436749719

Caldo Verde: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/portuguese-style-kale-soup/

Fermented Chard Stems: https://raiasrecipes.com/2018/04/lacto-fermented-rainbow-chard.html

Track and Food Podcast: https://www.midrangevancouver.com/track-food

The Great Courses on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/category/915

Portuguese-Style Kale Soup

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Caldo Verde1Caldo Verde is the ubiquitous Portuguese soup made from potatoes, thinly sliced kale and maybe a bit of paprika-spiked Linguiça sausage thrown in for a little Shazam! I’d heard the name mentioned in cookbooks and on other food blogs plenty of times, but I’d never researched or attempted to cook this “green broth” everyone seemed so hot on.  Then winter hit, and I got sick, and all I had left in the garden was a single miserable little kale plant to comfort me. Read More

Kale Top Salad with Lemon Thyme Vinaigrette

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Kale Top SaladIt’s May, and that means the local farmer’s market is back with a vegetable vengeance. This year there really seems to be more farmers in attendance, and I returned home with bags of fresh produce (Chard leaves the size of your head!), and armfuls of starters for my garden (The tomato man was there, whoot!!!) One of the most interesting edibles that I scored was a bag of bright purple kale tops.

Picked during the spring from the tops of over-wintering brassicas, these little bundles of buds are amazingly tender and subtlety flavoured. The perfect foundation for an early-summer tossed salad. This recipe is a classic menagerie of very friendly veg, all balancing the bitterness of everyone’s favourite super-green. Read More