What's for Dinner: Kale Frittata and Baked Tomatoes

Here's a little frittata number I whipped up the other night for dinner:

Here's the recipe:

-1 bunch kale

-1 medium-sized white or green onion

-4 chicken apple sausages (look for the brand, "Aidells" in the meat section of your local market)

-1 cup feta cheese

-olive oil

-8 eggs

-1/2 cup milk

-garlic salt

-salt

-pepper

-cooking spray

Preheat the oven to 325 F.

In a pan coated with olive oil, saute the kale. Dice up the onions and the sausage and add to the kale once it has started to wilt and reduce down in size. Stop sauteing when the onions look translucent and/or when the sausage is browned on the outside.

Crack the eggs into a large bowl. Add the sausage-kale-onion mixture as well as the feta cheese. Add garlic salt, salt, and pepper. Mix it all up with a whisk.

Pour the mixture into a greased 8x8x2 oven-safe pan (or a pan of similar dimensions). Put it in the oven for about 40-55 minutes, or until the center of the frittata has solidified.

Fun to make, delicious to eat, and makes for great leftovers!

Now for the side-dish... baked tomatoes!

Here's how:

Cut tomatoes into 1/2 inch slices. Place them on a baking sheet (I lined mine in aluminum foil for easy clean-up) and give em a generous drizzle of olive oil. Sprinkle a pinch of minced garlic on each one and season with salt, pepper, and garlic salt. Finish them off with some parmesan cheese and throw them in the oven (400 F) for about 10-12 minutes, or until the cheese starts looking toasted. These are great a la carte, but they're also pretty delicious on a piece of toasted bread. If you'd like, doll them up a little bit with basil, oregano, and/or bread crumbs!

Try it! You'll like it!

What's for dinner: scallops, marshmallows of the sea

It got a little fancy last night: roasted vegetables, Japanese Kale Salad, and Sea Scallops with Cilantro Gremolata and Ginger Lime Beurre Blanc Sauce (click the link for the recipe - it requires only a few ingredients, does not take that much time to make, and is absolutely delicious if I do say so myself):

I'm particularly proud of the the Kale salad - Kale is really hot right now. It's like the hipster collard greens. I was looking for a kale recipe and ended up combining 2 or 3 of my favorites. It ended up tasting like a seaweed salad, except warm. Here's what I came up with (again, super easy to make, only a few ingredients, and delicious):

What you need:

-Olive oil

-1 packet of mushrooms (or roughly, 2 cups)

-1/2 an onion

-1 bunch of kale

-Lemon

-Soy Sauce

-Garlic salt

-Pepper

-Sesame seeds (optional)

What you do:

In a large pan coated in olive oil, saute the mushrooms until they begin to brown. Chop the kale into 1/2 inch strips and add to the pan. Cover for 3-4 minutes, or until the kale begins to shrink. Chop the onion and add, stirring until they turn translucent.

Mix in the juice of half a lemon, add a drizzle of soy sauce, and salt and pepper to taste. You can also add the sesame seeds at this time (I would have added them in last night, but I didn't have any).

Enjoy!