#45. Kale Chips

I used to force myself to eat steamed kale in college and for a little while after, but then one day I'd had ENOUGH! It makes your house smell like a hamster cage, and it tastes like a WET hamster cage. Then, from everybody it seems, I started hearing about kale chips. I think you can buy them in the store, but I was told they're very easy to make, so I looked up a recipe. That ended up being a bit of a mistake, because I added all sorts of things and they ended up tasting disgusting. The point of my saying this is: with kale chips, the simpler, the better.

These are the ones I put loads of olive oil, black pepper, red pepper flakes, garlic powder, oregano, paprika, salt, thyme, and turmeric on. DON'T DO IT!:

That same day, I steamed some of the kale for comparison. It was better than the excessively spiced chips, but still, gross:

The next day, I tore the remaining kale leaves into bite-sized pieces (compost the big stems, or if you hate yourself and love nutrition, eat them), soaked them in a bowl, rinsed them well, shook the water out well, added a couple tablespoons of olive oil to the BOWL instead of trying to coat the pieces individually (what jerk wrote that recipe?), added only paprika, turmeric and salt (in small amounts--maybe half a teaspoon at most?) and placed the "chips" on a cookie sheet, like so:

And baked them at 350, for about 15 minutes.

This time they came out thin, light, crispy, crunchy, and decently flavored:

B+, because they're good, but they still taste kind of "healthy"