Holiday season dishes tend to be heavy on sweet and fat. Which is why some of my favorite meals this time of year involve kale. It’s not that I don’t enjoy a good Yorkshire pudding, or a bowl of buttery potatoes, or a sweet baked ham. Rather, it’s that pigging out on decadent foods like those make a fiber-rich dish like kale salad taste and feel all the better.
Polls consistently show that the most popular New Year’s resolutions relate to diet, exercise, and weight loss. This makes sense, after weeks of binging. The problem is, by the time New Year’s Day rolls around, the damage has already been done, and losing weight is a lot harder than keeping it off in the first place….