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[dragonlady7]

Colcannon
Approx 1 1/4 lbs potatoes
3 cups thinly sliced cabbage
1 cup leeks, chopped-- or onions
1/2 c scalded milk
4 Tbsp butter
salt and pepper
Cut potatoes into one inch pieces. Cook until tender. Meanwhile, saute cabbage and leeks in 2 Tbsp butter. Add water if needed. About 10-12 minutes. Drain potatoes. Place potatoes with cabbage, mash, stir in milk, and remaining butter, and salt and pepper to taste.

I chopped and browned a pair of Polish sausages before I put the leeks and cabbage in to saute, and so reduced the butter a bit and used sausage fat instead. I've also had this with diced ham in it. I used the water the potatoes were boiled in, and added a chicken buillion cube, to moisten the cabbage and leeks, since they were so bulky and didn't really cook down in just the butter/sausage drippings. I used too much potato water, though, so it wound up pretty gloppy; still, it's stiffened as it's sat, and it wasn't bad.

Tasty, sticks to your ribs, is actually pretty good for you. Cabbage is, like, insanely nutrient-dense for how cheap and easy-to-store it is, but I just don't have enough recipes that present it appealingly, so I'm glad to have this one, a recent acquisition from my mother. (I don't know where she got it; she read it off to me.)

This recipe only takes about half a cabbage, though, so you've got to have something in mind to do with the other half of a cabbage. I mean, that's a good thirty cents' worth of groceries right there!! Wouldn't want to waste it. I'm going to attempt some sort of soup. Sometime in the next month before the rest of the cabbage goes bad.

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[gasslight.livejournal.com]

cole slaw.
and also in salads.