All must bow down before Master Cabbagehead! Actually, he looks like something they'd use as a Bad Guy on an original 'Star Trek' episode, LOL!
Posted on 09/15/2009 9:17:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Ok, after going through this thread, cabbage is on the list for next years garden! That Reuben looked SO GOOD! And the saurkraut/keilbasa stuff. YUM!
Thanks for the ping! I grew the most BEAUTIFUL red cabbage this season in my flower bed. The cooler summer was just perfect for cabbage and this one was done by late June.
I’m going to braise it in butter...and eat the whole thing myself. :)
All must bow down before Master Cabbagehead! Actually, he looks like something they'd use as a Bad Guy on an original 'Star Trek' episode, LOL!
Do you have a recipe that you will share? Sounds delicious!
Very nice garden on your home page, Mama. RD — check it out if you haven’t already. Gnat’s Ass Construction did a really good job. ;-)
Why thank you! I was just out there, picking more tomatoes (finally ripening up...thankful for the great weather we’re having) and more zukes. For my very first garden, I think things have gone really well. Gonna be a lot of changes next year! Not so much squash, lots more green beens, and I’m only planting a few radishes and letting them grow into the big bushes that produce the seed pods. They are better than the radish itself, go great in salads, and you can even pickle them! Ever had a radish pod? Do a google search for radish seeds, and you should get a picture of the pod. We let one keep growing, just to see what would happen, and found a great new taste sensation! I haven’t found one person yet who’s even heard of them, let alone TASTED them. Most definitely doing cabbage next year, and maybe only a bit of lettuce. Planted WAY TOO much lettuce and can’t keep up with it!
This guy looks great by comparison, but the same hat.
BUT! Despite the wretchedly poor brats—the only German food being sold, other than kuchens & “hot potato salad”— they had a fantastic home made kraut to go with them that was to die for.
I say “hot potato salad” in quotes because it was really just hot chunks of boiled potatoes with the plainest of plain German potato salad dressings over them; no other ingredients: no bacon; no onion!
Definitely wasn't worth driving the 50 miles to get to it.
Oh, and the kraut was only available as a side dish; none to bring home. :-(
Halushki! Mom shreads the cabbage and fries it in a huge pan, boils the potatoes seperately, sautee’s onions. Then cubes the boiled potatoes, and mixes them with the cooked cabbage and onions and adds lots of butter and some onion powder. It disappears very quickly.
Yes ma’am I have seen her home page and garden! It is just wonderful what she and her husband did!
Decades ago, they wanted to build a paper mill in Antioch, Californiap>
People were terribly skeptical about the whole deal because of the stench paper mills were famous for.
The mayor went to visit a town with a similar mill, then reported back, “the odor is rather pleasant, reminiscent of cooking corned beef & cabbage!”
After the mill was built, people got to find out what several tons of “cabbage cooking” 24/7 really smelled like.
Uh, oh! There goes all the heart failure patients and the ones on Coumadin!
(Although the worst part of fall is that last pear on the tree, that invariably ends up in at least one broken bone. Every year.
I suppose is some areas, it’s that last apple. Next, will come all the dizzy spells from picking up pecans.)
I guess that is why Antioch ended up with people like Phillip Garrido living there.
mmmmm bacon.
I swag it but it comes down to,
Fry 3-4 slices of bacon, remove but save the grease.
Add shredded red cabbage and fry ‘til well wilted. Stir often. Cabbage will cook way down.
Add 1/4 C apple cider vinegar, 1/4-1/3 C brown sugar.
Add 1 sliced apple, 1 lb kielbasa cut into about 4 pieces.
Add about 1 Tbsp. caraway seeds. Or not.
Continue cooking covered until cabbage is tender. About 15 min.
Crumble bacon into the cabbage.
I don’t use the thick white veins near the core of the cabbage.
Hey, don’t knock sauerkraut!
It is very good for many things.
For example:
If you have a bad cough drink one quart of sauerkraut juice. Within one or two hours you won’t DARE cough!
Another proof that you mind is always seeing the evil in everything.
If that’s what you think about when you see pictures of sandwiches, that says a lot more about where your mind is than the photographers.
Need to hire a few more produce boys.
What do I think of? Enlighten me.
A Reuben sandwich is evil? Who knew?
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