Warm kale salad with roasted potatoes, bacon, cranberries and Manchego cheese. Drizzle some super-tasty raspberry dressing on top and you'll be stuffing salads in your face all year long.
I'm writing this post as the rain hammers off my windows. It's a rare sight in California but we need the water for sure and everything in my yard is getting a much needed wash down.
So it felt a little weird to be giving you guys a salad recipe, but it's a warm kale salad! But why should salads have all the summer fun? This warm kale salad is definitely a fall flavor recipe, the potatoes are warm with chunks of over-crispy bacon, apple, Manchego cheese, cranberries and kale!
I almost forgot the candied pecans. This is totally Christmas in a bowl! Every salad needs a dressing and this one is so easy it's ridiculous.
Fresh raspberries with some red wine vinegar and olive oil, blended high-speed style in my Vitamix. It's a little tart but the bacon takes care of that.
The kale doesn't even need to be cooked. Just a gentle massage with some olive oil and it's ready to go. Sweet from the cranberries and candied pecans.
Savory from the Manchego and bacon. All sorts of umami-ness flying around. This is a filling salad because of the potatoes, but throwing some slices of grilled chicken on top would not be a bad thing or even grilled tofu.
Protein, carbs, fruit and dairy. What else would you ever need for the perfect kale salad?
The potatoes are simply seasoned with salt, pepper and rosemary. Toss them in a bowl and roast in the oven until soft and kinda blistery.
This is where you're allowed to taste some (a lot) because they're so good just like this!
This picture pretty much sums up this warm kale salad, except you may have nothing left on our plate. The only reason I did was because I piled it way higher than I should have. Have a great Thanksgiving week everybody!
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