Today's easy kale recipe: For sweet little mini pizzas, just "doctor" a jar of a favorite spaghetti sauce with cooked kale, then top as you like. Super easy and surprisingly tasty. For anyone who wants to sneak healthy leafy greens into the family diet, mini pizzas are a great place to start. The sauce itself has virtually no calories at all and zero Weight Watchers points and is not just vegan, "Vegan Done Real". And a Mini Kale Pizza? Under a hundred calories! For cookbooks that really "teach" and "challenge", my favorites tackle a single subject and explore it deep and broad. So it goes with KALE: The Complete Guide to the World's Most Powerful Superfood by Stephanie Pedersen. (DISCLOSURE KALE's publisher provided a complimentary copy but the thoughts, as always, are my own.)
Stephanie's personal story is compelling. She was pregnant on 9/11 and was exposed to a "massive amount of toxins" which were passed onto her son, who was born with heavy metal poisoning which caused a mix of skin, digestive, sensory, sleep and mood disorders. When she began rebuilding his immune system, kale purée was a mainstay. She also used kale to overcome her own many health issues. I don't very often "read" cookbooks – call me guilty of skipping straight to the recipes – but I found her introduction to kale much absorbing. Is kale a miracle food? You kind of get that idea. This book isn't written by someone who loves kale but by by someone who thinks kale may have saved her life.
But I totally l-o-v-e the idea of mixing kale into a jar of spaghetti sauce! Taste-wise, the strong flavors of the tomato sauce almost "hide" the kale. The pretty red color of spaghetti sauce doesn't survive, however, with the kale it turns to a dark (but not unappealing) red color.
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