Kale recipes!

Hello!

What a weather we have here in Finland today! 😩😊
Back at home, wearing warm comfortable clothes and drinking hot tea. Having my favorite face mask on, moisturizing, deep cleansing, toning and balancing Marine mask of Forever Living Products working on my skin.
Time to relax after gym! It's been a hideous sleet storm out there for the most of the day and I've been home studying, doing household chores and ran some errands before going to gym. I only walked from door to car and back and from car to gym and back + ofc had to clean the car of that heavy wet icy sleet layer before driving. I simply hated every second of being out there. :D :'D
For those lucky ones of you, who don't know what sleet is, it's wet and icy mixture of snow and rain. Happens when the temperature is around zero, but almost below it. Combined with the wet n icy rain mercilessly coming straight at your face even when wearing a hood there was a freezing stormy wind and the streets were wet n full of sleet all over. Luckily I'm back indoors! :D

Yesterday was almost all about fun! I studied a little, spent time with a good friend of mine, visited my mother and enjoyed the good weather among the beautiful nature of Mustola (a suburban area of my town, where my mother lives.)

A few days ago I bought some kale.
We all know it's nutritionally almost super food. Nevertheless at least to my foodie taste buds the bare kale tastes simply awful. Good news is that you can create tasty combinations including kale and all it's vitamins n nutrients! I'm about to share a Chicken - goat cheese salad recipe I created and enjoyed yesterday with my friend as dinner.

Chicken-goat cheese salad

 You'll need:

• kale
• cabbage
• scallion
• romaine/cosmopolitan salad
• red/yellow paprika
• sun-dried tomatoes
• celery
• kidney beans
• zucchini
• avocado
• chicken
• goat cheese

The amounts I'm putting into this example are approximately for I did't weight or measure anything, but this recipe will make a small salad bowl. You can ofc make as big portion as you need or want to have! Preparing this takes only about 15-minutes.

Chop into a big colander two middle sized kale leaves (remember to remove the stem of the kale!), three leaves of crunchy salad and a small piece of cabbage, about 70 grams. Dice half of a paprika, chop one stem of celery (the celery into thin slices!), little scallion and dice about 1/3 of a small zucchini into to the colander as well. Rinse the the chopped veggies in the colander and let 'em trickle. Pour everything into a salad bowl.

Dice about 10 pieces of sun-dried tomatoes and toss 'em into the salad. Toss in also about a handful of cooked kidney beans. Mix the salad well!

Fry & spice up some chicken (as much as needed). Take some salad on the plate, carve a little avocado onto the top of the portion and serve the salad with fried chicken and a little goat cheese!
I also added a few fresh basil leaves. (: We enjoyed this quite a lot with my friend 😋

This morning I created a healthy and nutrition packed smoothie blend including kale.
This one is creamy for including avocado, but simultaneously very fresh!

Blueberry-kale smoothie

• two bananas
• two apples
• a piece of fresh ginger (about 2cm's x 1cm)
• 2-leaves of kale (stem emoved)
• 2 dl's frozen blueberries 
• 1 avocado
• 1,5 dl's frozen mango cubes
• a few ice cubes
• plant based protein powder

(1dl is about half a cup! :)

Put everything into a blender and blend! This will make little under one liter of ready smoothie. You can adapt the recipe suitable to your need (:

~That would be all this time~

Hopefully everyone is having a fantastic weekend!

♡-Tiina-♡