Celebrity Chefs Reveal Secret Ingredient: Kale!

Design a character who is a celebrity chef.

Name: what you wear and your famous dish.

Name of your restaurant and cookbook.

What style of cooking are you famous for? BBQ, decadent desserts, Malaysian, sushi, raw food, etc.

Signature Kale Smoothie

Ingredients: Presentation

Signature Kale Soup: Ingredients and Presentation

Other signature kale dish.

Let's Cheer for Kale!

Get into teams of four or three and develop a cheer about kale.  Try to make it interactive and physical. Use rhythm and rhyme, or approximate rhyme.

Here's an example:

Kale is cool,

kale is sweet,

good to drink and good to eat!

Drink it in a blueberry smoothie

put it in your chicken soup.

Vitamin A (repeat A)

Vitamin C (repeat C)

Vitamin K (repeat K)

Helps you work, helps you play.

Say Kale, times 3. (Kale! Kale! Kale) Whoop!

Health Benefits of Kale

Types of kale: Lacinato, (Dinosaur Kale)

Curly Kale, Purple Curly Kale, Red Russian, White Russian, Ornamental

Vitamins: A, C, and K.

Minerals: manganese, calcium, copper

Omega 3

Antioxidents prevent disease and strengthens the immune system

High fiber food: good for digestion

For healthy eyes, lungs, bones, muscles and blood

Kale thrives in cool weather and can be grown in the winter in BC, but you can eat it year round here. The frost makes it sweeter.

Zucchini Mama's Awesome Kale Smoothie

1/2 cup coconut water

1/2 cup plain yogurt

1 banana

1 hand full kale

green cardamom seeds(optional)

Put the ingredients in a blender and whizz to the consistency you like. I like to leave bits of kale to make the smoothie more "chewy."