I am at the moment eating black tuscany kale given to me by an allotment neighbour because she doesn't like it. Too bitter.
If anyone else feels the same, try boiling it fast for a few minutes, then eating it with the apple sauce that everyone with an apple tree must be making (and freezing) at the moment.
The combination is perfection, especially with bacon bits bought cheaply from butcher ("mis-shapes") and potatoes from allotment too small or sluggy to store. And in this case, a swiftly fried organic egg.
Hope it tastes as good as it sounds. ;D
I thought I would leave mine until the frost gets it. If it is still bitter I will give this a go. I am sure that OH will like it with apple and bacon.
He likes cabbage cooked with apple and thyme.
We have as neighbours in our village a Christian group who live as a community. I can't go along with all their beliefs (evolution???) but they are nice people and invite us to some of their communal meals. There are almost always bowls of apple sauce on their tables so I have learnt that it goes with everything, not just roast pork.
This encourages me to get apples from everywhere I can when my own apple tree is used up, process them rapidly using my wonderful apple/pear peeler/corer/slicer machine, simmer them a bit, and freeze in little ex-humous pots and similar. It freshens up lots of meals, especially those that are a bit dry or salty or bitter.
I use it quite a lot in pasta recipes, actually cooking it with the pasta. It is authentic in Ribollita and can be used well in almost any soup and great if you just want to bubble and squeak it :)
so far I've used it like Artichoke says (minus the bacon and with poached eggs), in soups, in pasta (tom sauce and chopped up kale), and am plannig on trying it as a side dish fried (sweated off) with ginger and garlic and an onion alongside a curry :D
Sounds lovely... :)
another idea is to chop up small fry off with some onion, garlic + anything else you fancy and serve on toast with mascapone cheese - sarah raven has something along these lines in one of her books
I don't put butter in with boiled veg but I always think boiled black kale tastes slightly buttery - weird.
However I prefer it cooked with other stuff like spinach or in stews etc. so I don't encounter the weird buttery taste that often.