Ran into Paul Jones, my former professor at UNC and director of ibiblio at the Weav over the weekend. I was professing my love for collards and he suggested I try his recipe for Caldo Verde, a hearty spring soup. This version has kale but also works with collards. If you’ve got a ton of kale and collards and are running out of ideas, it seems worth a try.
http://ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/?p=2393
Here’s an update with a version of Caldo Verde that’s not a creamy blended version with collards and a few other new tricks