Blanched and Pan-Cooked Kale with Garlic and Olive Oil

Kale arrived in my CSA this week. I also have a large patch of kale in my garden. I generally just feed it to my chickens (all that calcium is good for their eggs).

I've never tried this approach to cooking kale, so took the opportunity to prepare this recipe. I used all lacinato kale (not curly kale). I only blanched for 3 minutes, then into the ice bath. It was impressive how much water could be squeezed out.

The kale tasted ok - not everyone would eat it, but it was fairly tolerable. But it wasn't good enough for me to freeze awa blanched kale for the winter...