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Tea,
I did not plan to be be defending cabbage, but
there's saurkraut (German), kapusta (Polish), stuffed cabbage (many varieties,
but my favorite is a sweet and fruity meat mixture), the French pork version
Barb had us all drooling over at the Holidays (thank you again for the recipe),
cole slaw, New England Boiled Dinner, for just a few. It's a matter of how
it is prepared.
I used to be the one who had to cook for all of the
relatives at all of the Holidays, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and any other
reason too, because my mother -in-law insisted that I was the only one who could
cook for twenty people. I decided to end this one year by cooking many
vegetables, each more bizarre than the next. I made braised
leeks, fresh buttered beets, whipped turnips, spinach tomato and feta pie
and more, to go with a plain turkey and "forgot" the mashed potatoes for
Thanksgiving. I had hoped no one whould eat much and would give up on me
as a cook. Well, this backfired, they ate it all and now there was no
way to get out of cooking. Except one, non-dear husband had a zipper
problem so I finally divorced the whole group, but never under
estimate the power of a vegetable. Amy
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