Kale Chips

With the huge bunch of kale from the veggie haul this week, I decided to make some kale chips. I've definitely made better resulting snacks before. This experiment did not turn out all that well, and only yielded about 30 decent chips.

I started by washing the leaves well and then letting them soak in a big bowl of cold water that I changed 3 or 4 times. Then I dried out each leaf and tore it into roughly 1" pieces, discarding the big, bulky stems.

I tossed the torn leaves with some olive oil to cover completely and put them on a cookie sheet lined with aluminum foil. I would have used parchment paper, but the limited kitchen I'm using for the summer is lacking in that department. The recipes I found online (here's a good write-up) said to have the oven at 350 and bake the chips for 10 minutes. Either the oven was actually hotter than 350 (again a problem with the kitchen) or my pieces were too small, but either way it took 3 tries before I got something resembling a chip and not a piece of charred vegetable.

The best part about the last batch of fairly edible chips was the crunchiness and salty taste from the generous amount of sea salt I poured on. I'll be trying this again sometime, hopefully with better results, and maybe with some different spices or herbs on top.