CAVOLO NERO CON FAGIOLI SU PANE TOSTATO or TUSCAN KALE AND BEANS ON TOASTED BREAD

Today I'm posting a recipe in the Cookiecrumb style, I read this post and I agree with a lot of it. I don't use recipes that much anymore because I also prefer to post original recipes here but I have decided to change this policy even though it is contrary to what I really feel because I have a few extremely good Italian cookbooks that haven't been translated into English and it is a shame not to share these with you! So I'm going to try to post a recipe from my Italian cookbooks every week and I'll try to choose dishes that I never done before myself. But today’s not that day, today I'm covering another aspects of Cc's post, the non-recipe style recipe. I really have to force myself to weigh and measure when I cook something that I think could be good enough to post here, I'm getting used to it but I don't like it. But I realize that it is useful for those who doesn't cook in the way I do. When you read older cookbooks you rarely find measures indicated, they just tell you how to make a certain dish; this is ok when you have some knowledge about the type of cuisine you are reading about and if it is relatively modern but I would, for example, have problems to follow a Renaissance recipe because they have a completely different concept of flavours.
This recipe is really very simple and it is perfect comfort food when you need that. It's healthy too.




CAVOLO NERO CON FAGIOLI SU PANE TOSTATO or TUSCAN KALE AND BEANS ON TOASTED BREAD

Tuscan kale
White beans
Clove of garlic
Rustic bread
salt
Olive oil

- Boil the kale in salted water until it's ready. Drain it of the water that you keep on the side.
- Chop the kale, I usually strip the leaf off the stalk, it gets softer this way but it isn't necessary, and put it in a skillet with some olive oil.
- Add the cooked beans and let it braise for about15-20 minutes. Add some of the kale water now and then so that it doesn't dry up.
- Toast the slices of bread under the grill, peel and cut the clove of garlic in half and rub it on the bread.
- Put a slice of bread on a plate and scoop up some of the kale and beans on top of it, pour a little of very good olive oil on top and eat!

Well it did turn into a sort of recipe anyway...