So, I saw this. I'm more a fan of cooked kale than raw kale, but when it comes to raw kale, the dinosaur kale is definitely the way to go. And I love me some dried cherries and toasted walnuts. May as well give it a try.
It ended up being quite delicious! The kale and the quinoa sort of just are there as a base for the toasted almonds and the cherries, and without the almonds and cherries, it would have been a pretty sad dish. That said, I never quite got around to making the dressing, so that would probably improve things drastically on the kale front.
1/2C dry quinoa
1 head of dinosaur kale
~1/4C dried cherries
~1/2C slivered almonds
~1C grated salty hard cheese, like pecorino or parmesan or ricotta salata or whatever hard goat cheese it was that I happened to have on hand
The lemony dressing sounded good, but I didn't get around to making it, and kept bringing the undressed salad for lunch and kept eating it and enjoying it, so I suppose it's optional, though probably delicious.
Also, I didn't realize that washing quinoa before cooking it was a Thing. It is. Wash your quinoa before you cook it.
This got a good Ed-rating, but that may have been because he was really hungry and working at an orienteering event and hadn't eaten real food in a few days.
