I leave most of the dinner cooking at our house to my wife, Lenie, because she’s a great cook and enjoys cooking, but now and then I make Kale Soup, specifically the Kale Soup recipe perfected by John Silveira. It is better than any soup I’ve ever eaten, and that includes the pea soup at the Pea Soup Andersen restaurants in California. The recipe is pretty long (it’s in the BHM cookbook), but the kale is the most important ingredient. That’s why we grow lots of kale, because fresh kale from the garden makes the soup even more spectacular than it already is. The recipe calls for a linguica sausage, but I decided to use a smoked chicken and apple sausage this time because I’ve tried to eat foods that have less saturated fat since I had my heart surgery nearly two years ago. I was afraid I’d miss the linguica, but the new sausage tasted fine. This is the type of soup that is good fresh off the stove, but it tastes even better if it sits a day in your refrigerator. That gives the flavors time to meld together. I generally make a double batch, as I did this time, so we eat kale soup for a week. The soup is also healthy. Kale always ranks number one in the charts of nutritionists rating vegetables. The soup also contains lots of garlic and onions, which are also very healthy for you. This Saturday, Silveira will make a big pot of kale soup using linguica and bring it to the pot luck celebrating Pat’s life at Fall Creek Ranch near Ashland, Oregon. I’ll send him a copy of this blog post and ask him to include the recipe he uses Saturday in his next blog post. It’ll be the same one contained in the BHM cookbook. If you don’t own a copy of the cookbook, by the way, you’re missing the boat on a lot of great recipes. The Kale Soup I made is only one of hundreds of recipes in it. If you click on the image of the cookbook, you’ll find Kale Soup listed under the recipes contributed by the BHM staff. This one was contributed by John. By the way, have you noticed that both John Silveira and Jackie Clay are now blogging from the BHM website.