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  Chinese Kale Seeds.
Chinese broccoli, Kailaan, Kai Lan, Kailan, Gai Lan, Guy Lon, Whiter Flowering Broccoli, Gaai Laan, Jie Lan, Kai Lan Tsoi, Gelancai, Chair Lan, Kairan, Gailon.
The big stem can be 40 cm high and 3 cm in diameter.
Cut stalk can be 26 cm long and 2.5 cm wide.
www.agrohaitai.com /leafveg/chinesekale/chinesebroccoli.htm   (80 words)

  
 Chinese Kale, Blue Star
Plants can be harvested, 45 days in spring/summer season and 55-60 days in fall/winter season, after the sowing.
Chinese love to cook this vagetable by stir fry with garlic or oyster sauce, after a very quick/short cooking in boiling water.
You can find this popular dish, Chinese Style Gai-Lan, offered in most Chinese restaurants.
www.evergreenseeds.com /evergreenseeds/bluestar.html   (112 words)

  
  Cook's Thesaurus: Cooking Greens
Chinese broccoli = Chinese kale = gai lan = gai lum = kai lan Notes: Like rapini, Chinese broccoli has small stems and green heads (which actually are flowers) and lots of leaves.
Chinese spinach = hiyu = hon-toi-moi = yin choy = een choy = amaranth = hsien tsai Notes: This is similar to spinach, only it's prettier, tastier, and more nutritious.
kale = borecole = cow cabbage = kail Pronunciation: KAYL Notes: Kale is a kind of cabbage with dark green, wrinkled leaves.
www.foodsubs.com /Greenckg.html   (1385 words)

  
  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Curly kale is used in Halland, Sweden, to make långkål, an obligatory on the julbord in the region, and is commonly served together with the christmas ham.
Kale is a very good source of iron, calcium, vitamin C, Folic Acid, vitamin K and Carotenoids (which provide vitamin A).
Many varieties of kale are referred to as "flowering kales" and are grown mainly for their ornamental leaves, which are brilliant white, red, pink, lavender, blue or violet in the interior or the rosette.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=kale   (829 words)

  
 botany/brassica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There are two kinds of Chinese Cabbages: Heading types, Pe-tsai (B. rapa, Pekinensis group), which either have cylindrical or barrel-shaped heads; non-heading types, or Pak-choi (B. rapa, Chinensis group), have loosely clustered leaves on succulent stems, but form no compact, central head.
Chinese Cabbage is cooked, stir fried or added to salads.
All Chinese Cabbages are hard to transplant, because any stress seems to stunt their growth.
www.botany.com /brassica.html   (3599 words)

  
 Chinese Food Recipes–Glossary of Chinese food Ingredients - C
Chinese cabbage - As many as 33 varieties of Chinese cabbage have been identified in Asia, and the most common varieties in the West are celery cabbage or pe-tsai, pak-choi or "bok choy", and "choy sum".
Chinese Mushroom - Also called Shiitake mushroom, Chinese fl mushroom and forest mushroom (not to be confused with European dried mush­rooms), these are the most widely used mushrooms in Chinese cooking and are grown chiefly in China and Japan.
Chinese pickled cabbage - or mustard green is available in at least four different varieties, each having a special regional connection.
www.chinesefood-recipes.com /glossary_of_ingredients/ingredients_c.php   (2896 words)

  
 Taste: Chinese greenery
Chinese vegetables are a good alternative for people trying to expand their vegetable repertorie beyond broccoli, green beans and zucchini, Mah says.
In Chinese cooking, the leaves and stems are frequently used to garnish salads, or the leaves are sprinkled on top of stir-fries.
Chinese eggplant is often used in a spicy Szechuan dish laced with hot chili paste, garlic, sugar and vinegar, among other ingredients.
www.sptimes.com /2003/02/26/Taste/Chinese_greenery.shtml   (1203 words)

  
 Malaysian Chinese Food on MalaysianFood.net
It was during the era of the last European colonists, the British, that a large influx of Chinese journeyed to the Malayan Peninsula for employment.
These early Chinese migrants were guest workers who came with the intention of one day returning to their homeland and families.
Chinese cuisine is generally milder compared to Malay or Indian fare.
www.malaysianfood.net /Chinesefood.html   (2919 words)

  
 Eating the Asian way: Plant-based recipes avoid fatty pitfalls of Americanized dishes
Bok choi (Chinese cabbage), choi sum (Chinese broccoli) and gai laan (Chinese kale) were nowhere to be found.
Chinese food, in all its unauthentic glory, had been the food fad of the decade.
The Chinese believe that dietary balance is enhanced by moderation, that overindulgence is harmful and that eating in balance is a way of life.
www.post-gazette.com /food/20020307chinese0307fnp2.asp   (1976 words)

  
 Seven kale recipes from around the world
Kale is also an excellent source of raft of other nutrients, including Vitamin C, manganese and calcium.
The best variety of kale for cooking, in my opinion, is an old Tuscan heirloom known by a variety of names including lacinato, or cavolo nero, or blue or fl or dinosaur kale, the latter because of its crinkly texture.
While kale and yams are steaming, place oil in a large sauté pan and heat on medium high.
www.seasonalchef.com /recipe1205f.htm   (906 words)

  
 Chinese Vegetables
The Chinese cole crops are affected by the same pests and diseases that affect other cabbage relatives.
Chinese cabbage forms dense heads that may be very upright and tall (michili types) or round or barrel shaped (napa types).
Chinese spinach thrives in hot weather and if grown in cool seasons, the leaves may be tough and poor quality.
hgic.clemson.edu /factsheets/HGIC1306.htm   (2514 words)

  
 Kale
Kale and cabbage are varieties of the same species and descended from the same wild ancestor, but kale is the more primitive of the two.
Kale can be chopped and used raw in salads, cooked and added to rice or barley dishes, or served on its own as a side dish.
Kale is super rich in vitamins A and C, as well as that of iron, which is easily absorbed because of the high vitamin C content.
www.innvista.com /health/foods/vegetables/kale.htm   (1105 words)

  
 Kale - Condor Seed Production in Yuma, Arizona
Colorful and vitamin rich this beautiful garden kale produces vibrant pink to red fan-shaped leaves with highly frilled edges.
Mature leaves are tenderer than other kale varieties and have a mild sweet flavor.
This uniquely Asian vegetable in the cabbage family is grown for its large edible stem that can be harvested from 45 to 60 days after sowing.
www.condorseed.com /seed_kale.htm   (230 words)

  
 Deep Fried Kale Recipes at Cooking.com
The Chinese have an amazing knowledge about their plant resources, even though no specific word corresponds to "vegetables," reference in Chinese is made by the word tsai, which simply translates as "greens."
The green vegetable used in this recipe is known as Chinese kale, gai larn, or Chinese broccoli.
Every part of the kale is edible, even the tiny white flowers, though only the leaves are used to make this stunning accompaniment to a special meat dish.
www.cooking.com /recipes/static/recipe1218.htm   (434 words)

  
 Market values - The Boston Globe
Kale (leaf cabbage): The tough stems and ribs should be removed before the greens are cooked.
Kale can be substituted for spinach in most dishes (with longer cooking time).
Chinese broccoli (Chinese kale, gai lan fa): The long stems and dull green leaves are usually eaten.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/08/31/market_values?page=3   (1676 words)

  
 WorldCrops Chinese broccoli
Chinese broccoli, grown in Lancaster, Mass., for sale at a farmers' market in Boston, Mass.
Chinese broccoli is also known as Chinese kale, floweing kale (English) kailan (Cantonese), Gai lan, Jie lan (Mandarin), cai rô (Vietnamese), and Kat Na (Khmer).
It is believed that early Portuguese explorers brought cabbage to Asia and through generations of selections it has developed into Chinese broccoli.
www.worldcrops.org /crops/Chinese-broccoli.cfm   (274 words)

  
 Spinach Substitutes - General Chowhounding Topics - Chowhound
Kale is not good raw in salad, unless (1) it's clearly be sweetened by a good frost, and (2) you chiffonade it so its easier to ingest.
I wasn't real specific, was I. My daughter turned me on to Kale, and yes, I cook it.
There's also Yeen-Choy which is a red spinach, boil or stir-fry.
www.chowhound.com /topics/329650   (692 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Kai-lan (; literally "mustard orchid"), also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale, is a slightly bitter leaf vegetable featuring thick, flat, glossy blue-green leaves with thick stems and a small number of tiny, almost vestigial flower heads similar to those of broccoli.
As a group of Brassica oleracea, kai-lan is of the same species of plant as broccoli and kale.
Kai-lan is eaten widely in Chinese cuisine, and especially in Cantonese cuisine.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Chinese_kale   (169 words)

  
 Kale - Glossary - Hormel Foods
With leaves that range in color from dark green to purple, kale is commonly used as a garnish for food presentation or as a cooked vegetable.
The vegetable most often referred to as Kale has dark green leaves and can be eaten fresh or cooked as a side dish, providing a cabbage like taste.
However, Purple Kale is particularly decorative, due to the red and green colors in the leaves.
www.hormel.com /kitchen/glossary.asp?id=33349&catitemid=   (270 words)

  
 Kale
Kale germinates easily in cool or warm soil temperatures with even moisture.
Kale benefits from additional feedings of liquid fertilizer during the growing season.
(50 days) Siberian kales differ from the more common Scotch kales in that the foliage is a bluish-green in color and its leaves are less curled.
www.gourmetseed.com /kale_seed.0.html   (355 words)

  
 Cabbage - Wokme Asian Cooking Guide
Surprisingly, broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens, kohlrabi and brussels sprouts, Chinese kale or Chinese broccoli, broccolini and broccoflower are varieties of the same plant species: Brassica oleracea.
The Pekinensis group is the more common of the two, especially outside Asia; names such as da bai cai, pe-tsai, Chinese white cabbage, nappa cabbage and hakusai (Japanese) usually refer to members of this group.
Chinese Chopsticks taper to a rounded end, Japanese taper to a pointed end and Korean taper to a blunted end.
www.wokme.com /ingredients/cabbage.htm   (421 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
These include cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, collards, and kale (all cultivars of one species, Brassica oleracea), Chinese kale, rutabaga (also known as Swedish turnips or swedes), seakale, turnip, radish and kohl rabi.
Brassica oleracea, a plant of Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean, is the precursor to Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, Broccoli, Kohlrabi, Cauliflower, Kale, and most recently Broccoflower, a hybrid of Broccoli and Cauliflower.
The mustard family is concentrated in the temperate regions and reaches maximal diversity around the Mediterranean area.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Brassicaceae   (462 words)

  
 Hawaii
Plant cabbage, broccoli, eggplant, cucumber, lettuce, Chinese greens, green onions, cherry tomatoes, turnips, daikon and soybeans.
Sow seeds of arugula and kale for hardy, perennial sources of dark green vegetables suitable for salads or cooking.
Collect caterpillars from the undersides of kale, cabbage and other cole crops to reduce leaf damage caused by cabbage moth, which lays its eggs on the leaves, which are then devoured by the hungry keiki.
www.organicgardening.com /feature/0,7518,s-26-27-1208-3-1X2X3X4X5X6X7X8X9X10X11X12-13,00.html   (357 words)

  
 de Volkskrant - Buitenland - Kale rotsen fel begeerd in Oost-Azië
Het rommelt al jaren in de Oost-Chinese Zee en de Japanse Zee, waar de strijd om land, vis en vooral fossiele brandstoffen in volle gang is. De grensgeschillen tussen Japan en de buurlanden Rusland, China en Zuid-Korea hangen als een molensteen om de nek van de Japanse premier Shinzo Abe.
Beide landen beschouwen deze kale en weinig uitnodigende rotsen, waarop slechts een handvol Zuid-Koreaanse militairen leeft naast de laatst overgebleven visser Kim Seongdo (66) en zijn vrouw Si-yul (68), als hun grondgebied.
Vorig jaar stoomde de Chinese marine op naar het gebied om de belangen zo nodig gewapenderhand te verdedigen.
www.volkskrant.nl /buitenland/article380689.ece/Kale_rotsen_fel_begeerd_in_Oost-Azie   (1315 words)

  
 Search: Recipe kale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ogbono Soup one pound meat (beef, lamb, or goat) or chicken......prawns, whole or crushed (optional) a large bunch spinach leaves, or any greens (bitterleaf, collards, kale, turnip greens, etc.) [it may be a good idea to parboil the...
Recipe: Chinese Risotto with Shiitake Mushrooms Betsy at Recipelink.com 1-5-2004 To: Recipe:Recipes Using Greens (spinach, chard, collards, kale,...
Chinese Risotto with Shiitake Mushrooms rec.food.recipes/Eric Hunt/1994 Yield: 4 servings This recipe comes from Yujean Kang`s in Pasadena, CA.
www.recipelink.com /cgi/b.cgi?q=Recipe+kale&ul=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recipelink.com%2Fmsgbrd%2F%25&ps=20&fm=off&gr=off&np=7   (756 words)

  
 All About Broccoli - Knowledge - Hormel Foods
A variety of vegetable that is a cross between broccoli and Chinese kale.
It is ideal to use raw in salads, steam cooked as a side dish, as an ingredient in a vegetable stir-fry, a meat stir-fry, or added to other cooked dishes.
Chinese Broccoli is also known as Gai Lan, Gailan, Gai Laan, Gaii Lan, Gai Larn, Gai Lon, Gai Lum, Kai Lan, Kai Laarn, Kairan, Chinese kale, or white flowering broccoli.
www.hormel.com /templates/template.asp?catitemid=114&id=863   (1444 words)

  
 AD.nl - 24 uur per dag actueel nieuws /
De schepen zijn nu niets meer dan kale casco's, die de komende weken en maanden moeten worden afgebouwd.
De casco's zijn gemaakt op verschillende werven in de omgeving van de Chinese havenstad Shanghai.
Voorlopig zijn het even de laatste casco's uit China: door de hoge staalprijzen is het prijsverschil op kale casco's gedaald to 15-20%.
www.ad.nl /rotterdam/article716960.ece   (470 words)

  
 Chinese Broccoli - Kale | Seeds & Bulbs
Chinese Broccoli - Kale - Seeds and Bulbs
Not only should you NOT substitute broccoli for Gai LAN in Chinese recipes, but you SHOULD substitute Gai LAN for regular broccoli in many recipes because of its wonderful flavor.
Gai LAN is easier to grow than broccoli because it withstands heat better.
www.gardenguides.com /seedcatalog/vegetables/chinesebroccoli.htm   (160 words)

  
 Cole Crop Insects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sprays of Bacillus thuringiensis may be used on Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Collards, Kale, Mustard Greens and Turnip Greens.
Sprays of Sevin flowable may be used on Chinese Cabbage(14), Broccoli(3), Brussels Sprouts(3), Cabbage(3), Cauliflower(3), Kohlrabi(3), Collards(14), Kale(14), Mustard Greens(14), Rutabagas(14), and Turnips(14 for greens, 3 for roots).
Rotenone(1) may be used on Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Collards, Kale, Kohlrabi, Mustard Greens, Turnip, and Rutabaga.
www.oldhouseweb.com /gardening/garden/01701399.shtml   (592 words)

  
 vegetable gardening in spring
Chinese celery is a cut down, slim line form of normal celery, but much stronger tasting, and stringier.Sow it in late spring, and grow it fast in a fertile, moisture retaining soil.
Chinese broccoli is closely allied to the European "sprouting broccoli' that has open heads, (unlike the big cauliflower-like heads of the broccoli we know.) Like the European sprouting broccoli, Chinese broccoli does not form a head, but has a main stem and side stems with tender tips.
Chinese chives form bulbs (edible, similar to shallots, but small) that can be divided up and replanted.It does best, like most plants, in a fertile, moist soil, but is pretty hardy.
www.naturalhub.com /vegetable_gardening_in_spring.htm   (18224 words)

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