With the Popularity of Kale Comes...

 Kale Fritters

1 head kale

2 onions, minced

Minced bacon

2 eggs

1 cup bread crumbs

¼ teaspoon mace

Salt and pepper, to taste

Bacon fat

Boil kale until tender, then chop fine, add onions fried with bacon, eggs, bread crumbs, mace, salt and pepper. Mix and make fritters and fry in bacon fat.

From "Memories in the Kitchen: Bites and Nibbles From 'Bryony'"

All proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will and Grundy Counties. www.bbbswillgrundy.org

Order the cookbook at www.bryonyseries.com/Dalton_s_Dry_Goods.html

First appeared in the "Bohemian-American Cookbook" by Marie Rosicky, published by the Automatic Printing Company (www.autoprintomaha.com).

And in today's edition of The Herald-News:

Joliet cardiologist houses family fleeing from Syria

More than once, Joliet cardiologist Dr. Mazen M. Kawji wondered why he had bought such a large house in Burr Ridge for himself, his wife and their four children, now 11 to 22. Never had Kawji envisioned sharing that house with six more people, all Syrian refugees, all relatives...

www.theherald-news.com/2014/06/12/joliet-cardiologist-houses-family-fleeing-syria/axcqdlc/