CABBAGE SOUP

[Chubbo]

My 2¢ worth.

Rich, it's good to see you posting again.

Your soup sounds good. I love all things "cabbage" even though they sass back at me at times.

Ornery vegetable, it is.

I thought I'd mention an unusual, delicious type of cabbage, that I've had the pleasure of eating a few times, 'Palm Cabbage'. Very few folks can tell the difference, between it and cabbage from a regular head of cabbage. It comes from a species of palm trees in Florida, called Cabbage Palm. If I remember correctly, it was illegal to sacrifice a palm tree to obtain Palm Cabbage. I had a close friend, a lifetime resident, while we were living in Florida, that occasionally harvested Palm Cabbage, from a grove of Cabbage Palm trees, that he had planted on his property, many years previously, just for this purpose.

Chubbo

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

I'm buying a cabbage when I grocery shop this week. Ya'll are killing me, I'm starving to death.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[CQB27]

BUT - Sorry, can't abide Kimchi

Go to Korea. They have it morning, noon & night. Every meal.

Trust me, Kimchi & corn cob tea does NOT cut it when your hung-over. Barf-o-rama!

And you can smell Ajusshi coming long before you see him, lol.

 

[charlie sherrill]

Last week I cooked a head of cabbage. Put it in a large pot and cooked it down in chicken broth and a little bacon grease. Chopped up a couple of links of deer sausage, an onion, seasoning, and anything else laying around that looked good. I had slow cooked a corn beef brisket before I started the cabbage and chopped the brisket up and threw it in there. I made corn bread in an old Griswold skillet. Poured a little melted butter over the cornbread and washed it all down with muscadine wine.

 

[boykinlp]

I love cabbage, I love soup, so what is the best recipe? My BIL's sister makes the best cabbage casserole I have had! Yum, yum.
Larry

 

[OLDSTER]

These cabbage dishes all sound delicious; but if I ate them, the flatulence would be record-breaking.!

 

[Mule Packer]

Reading all of the previous posts has got me salivating all over the keyboard.

I fondly remember one of the best cabbage dishes I've ever tried. One of my sons and I were taking our pack string into a remote sheepherder's cabin located up in Northern California's coastal range. There was another old packer with his string who was along with us.

This other packer had volunteered to do the cooking for the whole trip, which was fine with me because this guy could turn out some pretty toothsome meals.

He began this particular dish by frying almost a whole pound of bacon he had chopped up in a big cast iron skillet. When the bacon was almost done, he removed it from the skillet, placed it on a paper towel to drain, then removed some of the bacon drippings. In the remainder of the drippings he cooked up some chopped onion until it was translucent, then removed that and placed it with the bacon. With bacon drippings still in the skillet, he placed a whole head of cabbage that he had chopped up and cooked it until it was limp.

When the cabbage was just about finished, he added the bacon, onion, some garlic powder and lots of black pepper, then let it go until everything was heated up.

Oh my...that was sure good. Between the three of us, we cleaned up the whole thing at one sitting.

 

[Chubbo]

My 2¢ worth.

I remember sitting on Mom's lap, circa 1933, while she read the newspaper comic strips to me. One of them was Jiggs & Maggy. Jiggs could never get enough of his favorite food, Corned Beef & Cabbage.

Chubbo

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[boykinlp]

What am I looking at, Rusty?
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

What am I looking at, Rusty?
Larry

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[Chubbo]

Memories

While on an Airstream, Wally Byme caravan to Alaska, circa 1989, we visited, a produce farm that grew Cabbage. those giant cabbages averaged 50# each. One of them would have made a tremendous batch of cabbage soup.

Chubbo

 

[rbrbrb6]

I love all things cabbage but my favorite soup to make and eat is a crab chowder recipe I found years ago. A chicken broth base with a little cream so much lighter than the traditional cream based clam chowder. It has leeks, bacon, hominy, red potatoes with a jalapeño and cilantro puree topping. MMMMM good!

 

[TheHobbyist]

Thanks for the memories OP! Boy, lots of good sounding dishes here, gave me some ideas for next week.

I'm not sure if it is a soup in the classic sense, but one of my favorite meals when I was just starting out in life as an adult was cabbage, ground pork, and ground beef. (50% ground pork and 50% ground beef)

Think big tall pot on the stove and do it in layers; base layer, half and half, season to your taste, then add cabbage leaves, then another layer until you got to the top. Keep on low medium for (??? forgot it's been so long since I last made it, but want to say about an hour and a half- two hours???).

It would definitely make the walls *ahem* peel paint. The ground pork was for the pork fat which would coat everything magically, just delicious. Next morning, it was a race to the reading room.

 

[Stevens]

My favorite is a Portuguese bean and cabbage soup(and other stuff), especially a Hawaiian style. IMHO it's even better with kale in place of the cabbage, but either way. We have at least one member on here from Hawaii. Perhaps he knows and can share a good Portuguese cabbage soup.

Search for "Caldo Verde" you will find a bunch.

Steve W

 

[Chubbo]

Favorites

My favorite use of cabbage, has always been making Sauerkraut of it.

One of my earliest memories, is begging my Mom for raw sauerkraut when she was heating a meal of her, home made, home canned, sauerkraut.

I remember helping friends of ours shred 50# batches of cabbage, packing it into large ceramic crocks, heavily salting that cabbage, placing round wood covers, with a large stones for weights, on them, and then set them aside to ferment and become sauerkraut.

Cabbage has always been a favored food of my family and I.

Chubbo