Comments on: Spicy Meatless Meaty Kale Soup

By: roni

roni — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:37:26 +0000

So glad you liked it and thanks for the comment. I forgot about this one! :)

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:34:51 +0000

I rarely leave comments on recipes I’ve tried, but I can’t help but feel the need to rave about this recipe. I found this recipe through a google search for “kale soup” and I made it this morning. I made a couple of very minor edits (added ground pork instead of Boca, added some baby spinach I had in the fridge in addition to the kale, and cut back on the pepper flakes since I was making it with my 2 year old in mind). It was absolutely fabulous!! Great flavour, with just enough heat. Even my 2yr old liked it, which of course, gives it double thumbs up in my book! I will definitely be making this again and again.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:52:45 +0000

I like kale but Im not sure about this quite yet. I must try it though :) I found an amazing recipe in Bon Appetit magazine for December containing a kale energy shake…its very very VERY good!

By: Nora

Nora — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:33:49 +0000

Great recipe. I improvised with what I had and since I didn’t have a full 4 cups kale I added a large can black beans and 2 handfuls brown rice pasta macaroni elbows! Super yummy!!! Thanks!!!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:55:25 +0000

Holy Cow! I made this last night and just got done eating it for lunch today… SOOO delish!!! Super filling!!
This is a new fav.
Thanks for the great recipe!!
Woo Hoo!

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:43:46 +0000

This was so good. I added mushrooms. I love Kale.

By: roni

roni — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:50:11 +0000

You could but spinach doesn’t hold up as as good as kale. Kale is a bit “meatier” I would make a smaller amount as I don’t think the leftovers would be as good. If you ever used spinach in soup I think you’ll understand.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:44:52 +0000

Could you use spinach instead of kale?

By: roni

roni — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:24:07 +0000

Nancy – Just print! It should come out only with the recipe and my blurb at the top!

As for the nutritional info…. I use a combination of websites, nutritiondata.com, fitday.com, and sometimes sparkpeople.com. I measure everything on my handy dandy electronic scale and tally up the totals. It’s really not that hard, just time consuming.

By: roni

roni — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:22:34 +0000

Leanne – I’m not sure if I’ll be signing up again. At least not with the same farm. It was a bit out of the way for us and there are closer options in my community. I’ll either travel the farmers market circuit or find a closer one. We’ll see this spring!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:50:05 +0000

This sounds delicious. I was looking at a big bag of kale in the supermarket on Sunday, but I wasn’t sure what I could do with all that kale. Now, I can’t wait to try this soup!
I have two quick questions:
1. Is there a place I click to get a printable version of the recipe?
2. I really appreciate that you include the calories and nutritional values in your recipes. Is there a web site you use to calculate it all? Every time I make something I have to figure out the counts of each ingredient and then recalculate for the whole recipe. There has got to be a better way!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:41:10 +0000

I had read about kale chips in my All You magazine. I’ll give them a shot, but chips out of a leafy veg? Meh. I’m not holding my breath.I DO like when my spinach gets crunchy in the egg muffins, so there may be some hope…Kale in eggs?(is that allowed?)
Your SOUP, however, looks marvelous!! Kale looks like it would make a great Italian Wedding soup. I would use real meat or Quorn crumbles. Soy crumbs give me a headache! Quorn, I like and can deal with. It’s soy free and has a meatier flavor.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:59:12 +0000

That looks great! We just signed up for a CSA so I’m going to keep that in mind for this summer! It’d be a great soup to freeze also, if we didn’t feel like eating soup right away.

Are you doing the CSA again?

By: mel

mel — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:34:06 +0000

This looks interesting. I have a vita mixer and make green smoothies with kale all the time.. add to a head of romaine, parsley, a few celery stalks, juice of a lemon, and a bag of frozen bluberries, plus a add a few packets of truvia… It doesn’t sound good, but it tastes surprisingly good, and you can feel your body detoxing almost immediately!

By: dining table

dining table — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:10:16 +0000

This looks healthy and delicious! I would love to try this at home. Soup is the thing this season with all the snow!

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:43:07 +0000

Wish I liked kale – but the kale chips were ugh to me. I had high hopes for them. I want to like kale because it’s a super good for you food – but perhaps I will need to use it in smaller amounts… :O)

By: Michelle @ Turning Over a New Leaf

Michelle @ Turning Over a New Leaf — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:37:50 +0000

I love mixing kale into my soup! It’s especially good in some gumbo. ;)

By: Liz @ life in liz's shoes

Liz @ life in liz's shoes — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:43:49 +0000

I like Kale! This sounds good too. I found a recipe in my Cooking Light cookbook for a sigh & ragout recipe. It is basically a fillet of fish that you cook and place on top of this wonderful ragout of kale and other veggies and it has a bit of pancetta or something like that in and it is just the best flavors! It has given me ideas as to how I can use Kale more in other recipes too – if you have a chance I encourage you to find the recipe. I didn’t see it on their website but obviously it is in the cookbook (maybe at the library).

I love when you try new things and share them – it really inspires me :)

By: SusieBeeonMaui (Eat Little, Eat Big)

SusieBeeonMaui (Eat Little, Eat Big) — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:40:23 +0000

Happy New Year Roni!
The soup sounds good-I’m not a fan of kale either. Tried kale chips-nah :-)