First off, I LOVE this salad! It is now my favorite way to eat greens. I’ve made it three times in two weeks.
Feed your kids greens early on … as a salad, and it just might stick … so I’ve heard! At least this is what some photographer friends in Santa Cruz told me who recommended the recipe. They were eating Carob, given to them by their parents, a generation before I was. Thinking nothing of it, they said, kids like this salad too. I started laughing, thinking to myself, not a chance I would have been excited about eating greens as a kid unless it was seamlessly slipped-into my Ohio, kid diet as a cold salad that has a bit tougher lettuce and that had no description that it was kale. I mean, we flipped out when my mom made stuffed peppers for dinner as kids. A story about a cousin who grew up in California came to mind when thinking about kids eating kale. This cousin had eaten such healthy, organic food as a kid that when his parents were forced to stop by KFC and get him some fast food one time, he threw up! Don’t worry, when I moved out to CA, I corrupted him by introducing him to loaded baked potatoes.
- TASSAJARA KALE SALAD vs. ESALEN KALE SALAD
In terms of these two variations on the cold kale salad, I would recommend combining aspects of both. I over salted the Tassajara Kale Salad the first time but liked the fruit aspect, ginger, honey, and lemon dressing in this recipe but would add the sprouts, red onion, and nuts from the Esalen Kale Salad recipe in the future.
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