Baked Kale Chips the Liz way.

A picture of Kale chips I found on the web.

I hate Kale... it's the new pomegranate though... so I have to eat it.
(Even though I personally feel that it smells and taste like a bad fart).

My friend Story came over the other day and I was showing off my vegetable garden and said "And this is my Kale, which sucks" She mentioned that she makes Kale Chips with olive oil and salt and bakes them. People love it she said.... and I bet they did because they weren't eating my version of it.

So I gave it a try. Story didn't give me any direction as to how or what to do.

I picked some of my fresh Kale poop out of the garden. I ripped it up into potato chip size and then washed it, stuck it in a bowl drenched it in olive oil and then smothered it in salt.

Mistakes 1,2, 3 and 4 were.....

1. When you cut it up, don't include the spines. Yuck.
2.  I didn't dry my Kale after washing it,  and don't drench in olive oil. It doesn't dry out properly
3. Don't smather with salt. Its overkill. you want a very tiny pinch of salt.
4. It tasted like salty popcorn with a side of fart.

Much better then the original version, but I'm going to have to keep working on the recipe. (It also gave me some dog breath afterwards.... like I had licked the urine off my tinkle (just in case you didn't know why dogs breath smells bad). 

I think for the next batch I will spray with Olive Oil, sprinkle with salt,, AND garlic powder and maybe some Crushed Red Pepper for my spice loving hubster.

..... AND then I might even do a tap of Parmesan cheese. And for all the fatty's out there you could dip it in fat free ranch dressing.... (To undo all the health benefits of eating fart chips).

Or maybe I would try to sprinkle it with cinnamon and some honey... to make dessert chips. With a side of Tofu Ice cream...

or for all you fatty's out there you could just dip it in pure chocolate sauce and then use it to scoop some ice cream, even though it is totally not strong enough to hold ice cream.... but I'm sure you will figure it out. I think that's why they invented spoons. Your welcome for the idea.

Sorry, I'm jonesing me some sweet stuff after eating the chips... hold on while I go get a breath mint, my breath is kicking!
Woof.
And this is why I wasn't a good sales person.

I dare you to try it.
(reverse psychology)
Or maybe I'm a genius at selling people on something.


Anyway here is the real recipe:

Directions

1. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a non insulated cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. With a knife or kitchen shears carefully remove the leaves from the thick stems and tear into bite size pieces. Wash and thoroughly dry kale with a salad spinner. Drizzle kale with olive oil and sprinkle with seasoning salt.
3. Bake until the edges brown but are not burnt, 10 to 15 minutes.

Thanks Story for the great idea....

This is a picture of my Kale, best not to include the spines. 

Update: I put the salty chips into a bowl and offered some to my two year old. I was expecting him to spit them out. He snatched the entire bowl out of my hands went and sat down in front of the TV and is happily eating them all. He's going to be soooo thirsty. He loves them though. So maybe it's just me.