This is the dinner that almost wasn’t. I started out with an entirely different meal in mind, one that involved mushrooms and squash and greens. But I baked the squash too long and it became dried out and tasteless, and when I sauteed the mushrooms with the garlic and sun-dried tomatoes the whole mixture very quickly became burnt, bitter, and inedible. Exasperating! I almost resigned myself to eating plain spaghetti with butter when I realize I could probably still salvage the kale and at least get some vegetable matter into my dinner.
And you know what? This turned out surprisingly awesome. The sun-dried tomatoes added a sharp sweetness to the slightly bitter kale, and I finished the whole thing off with a small amount of white balsamic vinegar, which added just the right edge. I love it when a salvaged dinner becomes something delicious in its own right.
Mr. X made a face when I told him I had kale and spaghetti for dinner, and I suppose it doesn’t sound all that spectacular. But I urge you to give it a try. Kale is full of all kinds of good things, you can tell because it is the most brilliant green color even after its been cooked for a bit.
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I may still give my original recipe idea another try. Then again, I might just keep eating this: simple, flavorful, and awfully healthy. How can you go wrong?