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.
