I got home from work one day this past week to find a letter in
the mail from mom. Well, no "letter" exactly - sometimes she'll
scribble a brief note on a scrap piece of paper, but this one
was more like what I get from mom - just a clipped out article
folded up and stuffed in the envelop. And this one was a real
interesting one - a recipe for kale chips! I'd mentioned to my
folks recently that I still have a surplus of kale and Swiss
chard growing in the garden - I don't know if mom remembered
that when she saw the article, or if she just thought I'd find
it interesting. Either way, super handy timing!  So the author
of the article had compared a bunch of different recipes she'd
heard about for making kale chips, and boiled them down to her
own version.  You start with fresh, clean, dry kale...easy
enough - I ran out to the garden and collected a bowl full of
leaves.  Did I wash 'em?  Nahhhh...we've had a lot of rain this
week, and I know my kale's never been exposed to any chemicals. 
I cut out the midribs,