Monday's Salad Supper...

Tonight's supper was kale salad with wild rice, roasted vegetables, and salmon. (And avocado, because I love avocado with any kind of salad).  

I've been craving kale lately, which seems healthy, but doesn't play nice with one of my meds.  I'm trying to incorporate it into lots of dishes, so as to have a constant(ish) level to counterbalance.  It is SO good with a hot salad dressing poured over it, and adding roasted vegetables and a grain.  I'll put the dressing recipe at the end of this post.

The roasted vegetables included butternut squash, carrots, beets, red onion, and mushrooms (both white and baby bellas).  The firmer vegetables I cut a little smaller than the mushrooms.  I put them all in a single layer on a foil lined baking sheet and drizzled on olive oil, salt and pepper, and about a tablespoon of soy sauce (to harmonize with the soy in the kale dressing) and tossed them by hand on the baking sheet.  I popped them in a 425° F oven and let roast for about 20 minutes, then stirred and returned to oven for another ten to 15 minutes.  When I took the vegetables out of the oven, I put the salmon in at same temperature setting.

The salmon was dry.  Maybe I overcooked it, or maybe it was because it had been in the freezer for quite awhile.  Carey doesn't like salmon, but he's been reminding me to use this since it was here.  Once the salmon was done, I assembled the plates starting with a bed of kale, topping that with some wild rice, topping the rice with baked salmon, then placing roasted vegetables and sliced avocado around the plate perimeter.  So, so delicious.  And enough left over to make two bowls for lunches, without the salmon, but just as filling and just as yummy cold.

Kale Salad Dressing (from Green Vegetarian Cuisine)

In a small saucepan, combine:

1/4 cup oil (I used olive oil)

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced or crushed

2 Tablespoons of soy sauce

1 Tablespoon of red pepper flakes

Simmer for 3 minutes over medium heat, stirring frequently.  Remove from heat and immediately pour over kale in a large bowl.  Toss and let it sit while you get other ingredients finished up.