Great Recipes with Chef Buck
If you’re on the fence with kale, then try this healthy, leafy green in an easy kale soup recipe. Kale is a vegetable that folks either love or hate because of its texture, but kale’s robust texture makes it extremely versatile for many recipes, and using kale in a vegetable soup is a simple way to tame the texture.
Here’s an easy kale recipe with a South of the border flair. We make a lot of dishes with fresh kale. Kale is a versatile, nutrient packed leafy green that we alternate often with spinach. Spinach and kale are interchangeable in most recipes. We call this recipe Mexican Kale since it has corn, beans, and … Read more
You can cook a healthy creamed kale recipe that is not only incredibly tasty, but super simple and quick to make.
Why eat raw kale salad? Kale is a so-called SUPERfood chock full of big-time nutrition and very fashionable in salad circles, so if you wanna be one of the cool kids, ya gotta eat it. If the Popeye franchise is ever re-booted, I’m sure our vegetable-friendly sailor will be shunning spinach and downing kale by … Read more
Doesn’t Kale Beet Salad sound like a dream come true? Beets are fun, kale is cool…very exciting stuff. Kale is a slightly rough and tough cabbagee-thingy that’s a little less than friendly in it’s natural state, but massaging salt into the raw leaves can turn Kale into a delicious salad green. Here’s a very tasty … Read more
Try this easy stir-fry kale recipe. Kale is a cool cabbage that kicks broccoli’s ass (or at least in this recipe it does). Kale Recipe Ingredients: 1 bunch KALE 1 inch piece fresh GINGER 1 medium ONION (cut into slices) ½ cup CARROT (thin cut or string cut) 1 hot PEPPER (finely chopped, optional) 1 … Read more
A German pancake recipe is easy to learn and can be used with a variety of savory or sweet toppings. This recipe version easily serves 2 people – each person enjoying half a 10”, ½” thick pancake plus toppings. If you’ve never had a German pancake, it’s a delicious cross between an easy-to-make soufflé, and a bowl-shaped crepe. You may know it by another name: Hootin’ Annie, Dutch baby pancake (Dutch was derived from the German ‘Deutsch’), or as a variation of the English Yorkshire pudding.
A ramekin egg bake recipe is not just fancy, it’s delicious, and comes with its own creamy sauce if you bake it just right. We add diced veggies and a quick broccoli side to make this breakfast egg dish ridiculously healthy.
Here’s an easy collard greens recipe if you’ve ever wondered what to do with a bag of frozen greens. Since we’re visiting the grocery store less frequently, we’ve been buying more frozen vegetables, and chopped collards make a perfect side dish. I’m making this a vegetarian recipe, but if you’ve got a little leftover meat in the fridge, it can pair well with greens; a leftover piece of bacon or sausage or ham thrown into the mix is a classic collards move.
Here’s a butter-free low fat apple crisp recipe for anyone looking to reduce fat but still make bad decisions. I eliminate the butter in this dish and substitute healthy safflower oil instead. I even take it easy on the refined sugar by using sweeter apples. You can peel the apples if you prefer, but I like to leave the apple skins on for added texture and nutrition.
Here’s a golden beet recipe using both the beet greens and the root. Red beets have a stronger beet taste, but both beet varieties are pretty beety. Golden beets are slightly sweeter and milder, but nutritionally the two are practically identical. I prefer to buy beets with the greens attached, in fact, beet greens hold more nutritional value than the roots, so be sure to use the entire plant.
Try a tofu recipe that makes a nice break from a typical breakfast egg scramble. This dish is a great introduction to tofu. I use firm tofu in this dish and lots of fresh greens. In this tofu scramble I’m using the leaves and stems of fresh kale, but we often use fresh spinach too, … Read more
Try this easy beet greens recipe. I almost always buy beets with the beet greens still attached–you’re getting two great ingredients in one! Beet greens are quick to cook up, full of nutrients, taste great, and look great, too. Serve this recipe over rice or quinoa as an entree, or serve it all on it’s lonesome as a side dish.
This is the easiest, best spinach salad recipe in the world. We first had one of these spinach, pear, blue cheese, walnut, raspberry dressing salads years ago at a little tapas place in Key West, and we’ve been making them ever since–especially if we have a pear on the edge–the riper, softer, and juicier the pear, the better the salad is gonna taste.
This kale hash recipe is a hearty and healthy way to get a tasty kale dish on the table for dinner. It’s based on a Dutch dish called Stamppot Boerenkool. Kale Hash Ingredients 1½ bunches KALE 3 lbs POTATOES 1 lb SMOKED SAUSAGE (sliced) 1 bunch GREEN ONIONS (chopped) 2-3 cloves GARLIC (finely chopped) 2 … Read more
A delicious and easy roasted edamame snack that tastes great hot out of the oven–try it as a tasty alternative to potato chips when you have the munchies.
This is my absolute favorite Brussels Sprouts recipe. it’s super tasty, simple to make, and a healthy choice, too, so definitely give it a try. Brussels Sprouts Recipe Ingredients 1½ lbs BRUSSELS SPROUTS3-4 Tbsp OLIVE OIL½ ONION (chopped)4-5 cloves GARLIC (finely chopped)1 LEMON zest and juice …current prices online for Kitchen Zesters½ cup WATERSALT and … Read more