kale

We made these baked kale chips at a recent FR Test Kitchen and could not get enough of them. Suddenly, no one cared for the steak (well, maybe a little), and all eyes were on the kale. No need to lecture you on the health benefits of kale since you probably already know. Trust us, this will be a new favorite snack — and not just because it's healthy.

I had leftover kale salad I didn't feel like eating in its fresh kale form, especially not after the amazing kale chips we knocked out at last week's Test Kitchen. Since there was already flavor on them in the form of a light orange juice–olive oil–rosemary dressing, I saw no reason why not to toss them on a baking sheet and stick them in a 350F oven for 15 minutes. Here's what happened.

You too can witness the melty stretch of mozzarella as you lift up a scoop of sausage and kale pasta bake. When we're not centrifuging and sous-viding stuff (*we have never done this), we're throwing together comfort food dishes like this homestyle rigatoni casserole full of the stuff we were just going to make separately anyway.