Kalette

Brassica sulfur and cured pork fat; the standard sprout treatment, applied.

Nutty solids meet the nuttiness kale already has; roast, do not boil.

Sweet starch against bitter leaf, the Christmas plate in miniature.

Two sulfur compounds pushing in the same direction, not against.

Acid after roasting; brassica bitterness needs a sharp finish.

Glutamate and salt on a leaf that is otherwise all edge.

Sweet-sour syrup lacquers the charred leaves and cuts the sulfur.

Melted into the roasting oil, it seasons every crevice of the frill.

Roast pyrazines in both; the nut fat sticks to a very dry leaf.