Look what I found at our front door…
A box full of freshly harvested goodies!
The Produce Box delivers a box of freshly harvested local produce to your door once a week during the North Carolina growing season. The contents vary depending on what’s in season. This week’s box includes lettuce, strawberries, radishes, sweet potatoes, a ton of kale (a TON), and a head of cabbage. It looks like we’re having salad and strawberry shortcake for dinner!
I’m excited because this will force me to try some things I wouldn’t normally eat. Like cabbage. What do you do with a head of cabbage if you don’t like coleslaw?
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With fresh cabbage, why not try okonomiyaki? I make it often – it’s so good!
Oh, here’s a good recipe. My own is from the okonomi sauce bottle, but I think it’s similar!
http://www.watermelonstudios.co.uk/theramenblues/okonomiyaki-recipe/
chop up the cabbage and saute it in butter with a bunch of corn, some shallots, and a ton of thyme until the cabbage is just wilted, but still crunchy. add salt and pepper and a squeeze or two of lemon and serve! It’s delicious with salmon.
Corned beef and cabbage–YUM!
Here’s what I did with the cabbage in our farm share last year. It was so good I actually crave it from time to time.
http://www.fussellwhiteside.com/wedding/blog/2009/07/do-the-cabbage-patch/
My husband was stationed in Germany for two years while he was in the army (a lifetime ago), and really loved his time there. He came back to the states with a love of German food: sausages mostly! lol So, we’re always having cabbage and sausage. Here’s a good recipe, but make sure you have really great sausage:
1 head cabbage, chopped
2 potatoes, sliced
2-3 carrots, sliced
1 sausage per person (homemade German style is best; look for Mennonite or Amish)
2 T. real butter
Salt & Pepper to taste
Line a large frying pan (or dutch oven) with ingredients in order: cabbage, potatoes, carrots, sausage, dot with butter, add S&P. Pour water over; about 1 cup. Cook over low-medium heat until sausage is done, about 1 hour.
Let us know which recipe you tried, and how it turned out!
Braised cabbage is delicious. I like to cook cabbage, an onion and a few carrots in butter and chicken stock until the onions caramelize and the cabbage begins to turn a lovely golden color.
Just cut up some of the cabbage, put it in the salad, and use the rest of the chopped up cabbage as filling for fish tacos (halibut works best with this). Cabbage compliments the flavor of the fish better than lettuce ever could.
Yes! Thanks for all the cabbage recipe ideas! I don’t know how I will decide which one to try. Whatever I decide I’ll let you know how it turns out!
I wish our state had that! That’s amazing. That’d get a lot of people eating better for sure.
The Produce Box! I am so jealous. I have to buy my produce from the only store around… Walmart. Blerg.
This is so awesome! I’m out of words.