Quick and Easy Vegetarian Puff Pastry Pinwheels- Cheesy Kale- So Yummy!

I love to experiment with different things in the kitchen and today was an idea that originally went bad.  I won't go into that little fiasco, it will be a recipe video for another time when I figure out how to do what I want to accomplish.

Anyway, in the middle of my experimenting with puff pastry, I decided to make pinwheels.  Something pretty with flavors that would work well together, but not your average run of the mill spinach or as weird as leeks or kohlrabi.  I wanted to use something that the majority of people already have in their kitchen.  That's how I thought of kale.  It's as common as carrots in today's world.  If you eat salad, you probably eat kale.

Making puff pastry from scratch would have taken FOREVER so I opted not to do it this time.  In hindsight, I could have just done a batch of croissant dough because, in my opinion, it's pretty much the same thing and it's actually cheaper to make it yourself.  If your only experience is croissants out of a can then I hate to break the news but you are seriously missing out.  On that note, I actually bought a box of pre-made puff pastry dough to save time and because most people do not make their dough from scratch anyway.  I caved.  This time.  :)

I could go on about these cheesy pinwheels forever.  They are SO good and so easy that I really hope you will give them a go and let me know what you think.  Video recipe is included at the bottom.  Hopefully one of these days I'll come off with the money to buy a video camera instead of using my iPhone to do recipe videos... we'll see about that plan.

Vegetarian Puff Pastry Cheesy Kale Pinwheels

INGREDIENTS

1/2 sheet of purchased puff pastry dough

2 green onion tops, chopped

1 medium clove of garlic, finely chopped

1 1/2 cups wilted kale

3/4 cup of your favorite cheese

egg wash

Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees and follow the instructions on the video.  These take less than an hour to make and are SO worth it!