I ordered a sort of a meal kit from my produce box place. The recipe is for a sort of stir fry with tofu and bok choy and other stuff. Well, I got most of it in my basket yesterday, but they screwed up and didn't send me the bok choy or the rainbow chard. I don't want to just wait and order those again for delivery next week. The 'shrooms might be a bit dry by next week. I'm not sure how well the mung bean sprouts will fare. The tofu strings have a best by date that is far enough away that I'm not really worried about that. The ramen noodles are frozen, so they will be fine, but taking up precious space in my freezer. So much for the rant part of this post. I do have some kale that DH has taken out of the downstairs freezer. I have used kale in soup to good effect. I have substituted other, less tough greens for kale, but I don't remember ever substituting kale for another green.
Since kale is kind of tough, what would you do to substitute it in a stir fry style dish? Would you blanch it? Would you just fry it a lot longer? Would you massage it? (I read about doing that somewhere.) Would you do something else? Would you just wait until you had the right ingredients?
I figure I'll substitute some pea shoots or sorrel or lettuce for the small amount of rainbow chard listed in this recipe.
Since kale is kind of tough, what would you do to substitute it in a stir fry style dish? Would you blanch it? Would you just fry it a lot longer? Would you massage it? (I read about doing that somewhere.) Would you do something else? Would you just wait until you had the right ingredients?
I figure I'll substitute some pea shoots or sorrel or lettuce for the small amount of rainbow chard listed in this recipe.