Greenery

Saturday I experimented with kale and my dehydrator.

It wasn't a totally unheard of experiment. I had eaten a bag of kale crackers a few weeks ago and thought I could replicate the texture at home. That sort of happened.

A week ago was the first CSA pick-up of the growing season and I got a HUGE bag of kale. I knew I didn't have time to make anything fancy with it, and had to wait nearly a week to sort through it, pick out the creepy crawlies, strip the leaves from the stalks, wash and prepare it in some way.

I tossed the kale into the food processor with some leftover cashew cream, a goodly amount of nutritional yeast, white pepper, olive oil, tamari sauce, tomato powder, ground flax seeds, spread it out on three sheets of wax paper and popped it into my dehydrator.

What came out...several hours later, was something akin to a flavorful, if earthy, very thin and crispy kale cracker. Next time I'm going to try more cashews for a little extra body, a few herbs, maybe some hot pepper, and lay it on the wax paper a little thicker.

Crackers aren't so hard to make. I think I'll do it again!