[Sca-cooks] green leafy things:interesting url

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Ang, when *aren't* you easily distracted? :-)

I think it might be kale, but not the dark blue-green that I'm used to
seeing as kale. It has a cruciferous look to it, at least. Especially at
the stem end.

It's not collards, it's too frilly for that. It's not curly endive,
either. If the online seed catalogs had better pictures, I'd probably be
able to identifty it better.

I may just assume it's kale and see what happens when I cook it.

Margaret


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Angie Malone wrote:

> Yup, I'm easily distracted today.  I went looking for sources of info via
> google and found the following URL:
>
> http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/kale.html
>
> It talks about Kale and collards, and how greeks and romans have been
> growing both.  Perhaps what you have is collards?
>
>          Angeline
>
> At 08:48 AM 7/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >So when I was at the grocery store this weekend, I bought a green leafy
> >thing because it looked interesting. It's not lettuce. It looks vaguely
> >like the rich upscale classy version of kale--lighter green, very curly
> >ruffled leaves, leatherier than lettuce but not quite as heavy as kale. It
> >wasn't labelled. It tastes slightly bitter and green.
> >
> >Anyone have a clue as to what it is?
> >
> >Margaret