i LOVE to cook. love it. there is nothing better than putting everything together and coming up with something that looks like art that you get to eat and it tastes delicious. this being said, i do not cook very often. i think this comes from a combination of me having to be in the mood to cook and chris, who also loves to cook, taking over the kitchen all the time even when i say i'll cook dinner. he makes the best dinners (deep fried chicken wings YOWZA) so i don't mind so much.
i finally decided to learn how to cook one summer when i was 19 and home alone a lot because my family was out of town. all i knew how to make were peanut butter and honey sandwiches. after about 3 days of only eating cereal and pb and honey sandwiches i decided i needed to learn how to cook. it seemed like one of those essential life skills like driving and... i'm not sure what else. probably doing taxes but i don't do my own yet... not sure i should be admitting that. anyways, i got a cookbook from the library and started learning recipe by recipe. i liked this cookbook so much i bought it and it is currently sitting with all my other cookbooks in my kitchen.
so here is a recipe i'll share with you. it is super easy and doesn't require many ingredients. i love looking up recipes (this is pretty much the only reason i use pinterest) but then become discouraged when i see the ingredient list. there's 10+ ingredients, i maybe have 4 or 5, and would spend money on another 2 but that's about it. i'd like to think i'm not the only one like this. anyways here is my super easy and low ingredient recipe:
super kale salad (adapted from a recipe from the chew)
1 bunch kale
1 red pepper, sliced
1/4 cup (or so) olive oil
1/4 cup (or so) balsamic vinagrette
red pepper flakes
coarse sea salt (really use the coarse and not normal salt. it is the best $3 you will ever spend, i swear)
add red pepper flakes to olive oil and balsamic vinagrette dressing
tear kale into a bowl along with your sliced red pepper
toss dressing with salad
top off with coarse sea salt
see you in another two months! LOL
:)
