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• Kale pizza with blue cheese and walnuts

Kale is often something of a one-note vegetable, delivering a heft of brassica that is awesome in its own right, but can be a lot to stomach on a regular basis. My solution to friendlier kale is to pair it with strong ingredients that don't necessarily overpower it, but join forces to steer it in an interesting new direction. In this case, kale is sauteed up with some olive oil and garlic, and then laid down on top of an uncooked pizza crust (I find that a whole wheat dough is particularly good at standing up to the strong flavor of kale). It's then topped with walnuts to give a nutty depth, funky blue cheese to spark it up, and a handful of thinly-sliced onions that will soften invitingly. All of these strong and pungent flavors hold their own, and combine with kale to make a beautifully balanced pie.

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