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Giant Crusty and Creamy White Beans with Curly Kale

It’s curly kale season in Schleswig-Holstein

Bag of curly kale

I got this „small bag“ at my favourite supermarket, because I had no time to visit the weekly market where I could have bought the needed amount. I’ll make some kale chips with the remaining leaves.

Since Kim posted the recipe for Crusty and Creamy White Beans with Greens I wanted to try it with kale instead of chard. I prepared

Giant Crusty and Creamy White Beans with Curly Kale

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as a main course and was hoping one of our sons would join us. It came true and even though it was curly kale, he enjoyed it. I am a huge fan of giant beans, I used dried, soaked them over night and cooked them one day ahead.

Giant Crusty and Creamy White Beans with Curly Kale

Yield:serves 3 as a main, 6 as a side dish

Giant Crusty and Creamy White Beans with Curly Kale (2)

This recipe for Giant Crusty and Creamy White Beans with Curly Kale works best with freshly cooked beans, which you can cook one day or two days in advance. Drain and store them in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

  • 125 grams large dried beans, freshly cooked
  • 3 tablespoons clarified butter
  • sea salt
  • 1,5 onions, coarsely chopped; Ulrike: deeply caramelised
  • 4 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 300 grams curly cale, stems trimmed, large ribs removed, washed, dried and cut into fine strips
  • black pepper, freshly ground
  • olive oil, for drizzling
  • Parmesan cheese, freshly grated for topping

Instructions

  1. Drain the beans, then heat the butter over medium-high heat in the widest pan you’ve got. Add the beans in a single layer. Stir to coat the beans, then let them sit long enough to brown on one side, about 3 or 4 minutes, before turning to brown the other side, also about 3 or 4 minutes. The beans should be golden and a bit crunchy on the outside.
  2. Salt to taste, then add the onion an garlic and cook for 1 or 2 minutes, until the onions softens.
  3. Add the kale and salt to the pan and cook for less than a minute, just long enough for the kale to lose a bit of its structure.
  4. Remove from the heat and season to taste with a generous dose of salt and pepper. Drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan.

Ulrike: I omitted the onions and garlic and stirred in deeply caramelised onions instead when adding the kale.
total time: 30 minutes
preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking/baking time: 10 – 12 minutes

 
 
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While I am writing this blog post, both sons and their father are decorating the Christmas tree

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Nigella Lawson’s Dream Bars

Seems that I own too many cookbooks. I totally forgot, that I own a Nigella Lawson baking book. Looking for a bar recipe I came across Nigella Nigella Lawson’s Dream Bars, could be found in her book How to Be a Domestic Goddess* . I immediately remembered, that I got the book from a fellow blogger years ago and started searching the book. It took quite a while to find it, but now my „cookbook library“ is cleaned and sorted again. I baked

Nigella Lawson’s Dream Bars

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for I♥CC. Our dishes this week are Sweet Treats like candy, cookie or dessert bar. The name dream bar says it all: The taste ist heavenly divine.

Dream Bars

Yield:Makes 10-12

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Dream Bars have a buttery, crumbly shortbread base topped with a sticky mixture of nuts and coconut bound by a tender, toffeelike chewy gunge

Ingredients:

BASE

  • 200 grams butter, very soft
  • 4 tablespoons light brown sugar, 60 grams
  • 4 tablespoons sugar, 60 grams
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 220 grams all-purpose flour; wheat flour type 405
  • pinch of salt

TOPPING

  • 3 eggs, size M
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 115 grams brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons self-rising cake flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 50 grams shredded coconut
  • 90 grams brazil nuts, roughly chopped
  • 90 grams cashews, raw, unsalted

OTHER

  • 1 23-cm square pan, greased and lined with parchment or wax paper

SOURCE

978-0786886814 *

modified from inspired by:
How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking
and the Art of Comfort Cooking
*
ISBN: 978-0786886814

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 175 °C/ 350°F
  2. Cream the butter and sugars together and, when light and soft, add the vanilla, flour, and salt, mixing well to combine. Tip this into the prepared pan and press down and in with your fingers. Put in the oven and bake for 10 minutes, then remove and let cool a little before spreading the topping on it.
  3. To make this, beat the eggs together with the vanilla and then, still beating, add the sugar. Stir the flour, salt, and baking powder together, and fold into the sugar-egg mixture. Now fold in the coconut and nuts and spread this on top of the part-baked shortbread base.
  4. Put the pan back in the oven for 30 minutes, then remove and let cool, still in the pan, on a wire rack. Cut into squares or bars as you like.

total time: 1 h
preparation time: 15 minutes
cooking/baking time: 10 + 30 minutes

 
 
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