I have a bag of kale and I'm not afraid to use it!

Apologies about this post being late, though there's no excuse really saying I've had two weeks off work.  I've been pretty lazy over the break, having tried out virtually no new recipes and hardly visiting the gym either.  I'm not beating myself up about it though as that's what holidays are for.  On the weekend I was due to post this, I was in York with my uni mates guzzling plenty of prosecco and munching on cream tea and gastro pub food.  Bliss.

Despite my lack of cooking over the holiday, I did buy a bag of kale from Aldi.  It's certainly a food everyone is raving over; I was keen to try out a kale crisp recipe!  I preheated the oven to 170 degrees, drizzled some olive oil, salt salt, ground garlic and ground black pepper into the bag, shook up the lot of it and placed on a baking tray. I baked the kale in the oven for about 15 minutes and was actually disappointed with the result.  The kale didn't really have a nice flavour and tasted quite bitter, though the cripsy texture was nice and reminded me of seaweed you get from the Chinese takeaway.  Some of the brower, crispier leaves tasted worse than the greener ones.  I didn't munch all of my superfood crips and instead went out and got a caramel McFlurry #fail

Not to be put off, the next night and using the last remains of my kale, I went for the simple option and just boiled the stuff with a little sea salt for about 8 minutes.  The result? A much tastier side dish in the form of a superfood and a change from the veggies I usually eat.  Winner!  I'll definitely try the kale crisps again though- maybe now I'm back to normality at work my cooking will get a bit more into the swing of things!