I had an absolutely wonderful time visiting sunny Vancouver this weekend!  I mean, when the view is this nice, how could it be a bad trip?  I had only two short days to see a group of friends from university and my BC hometown, so we made a plan to have a barbeque at a friend’s in Kitsilano.  We needed a salad on the menu and I wanted to test out a new recipe I had, so I volunteered to make a kale salad.  Making the salad was a serious joint effort between a number of us – from chopping the veggies to whisking the dressing to holding the bowl so we could snap a picture (or 30) for this post.

Before dinner, there were rumblings from a few people that kale is ‘not their thing’, but I can proudly say that the Kitsilano Kale Salad was not only demolished, but enjoyed!

In one of my Nutrition Tip Tuesday posts, I recommended massaging the kale with lemon to get rid of the bitterness.  As I didn’t actually put any lemon in the dressing, I used apple cider vinegar instead as the acidity of the vinegar has the same effect on the kale.

This is a great salad to bring to a dinner party, or would be delicious to make on a Sunday for your weekday lunches if you added some protein, like salmon to it.  Enjoy!