Saturday, March 1, 2014

Week 4: Cabbage

My dear friend Emily provided the ingredient for this week: cabbage. While looking up recipe ideas with cabbage I quickly confirmed my suspicion that cabbage is literally found everywhere. It's cheap. It keeps. And it fills (heyyyy fiber!).

When I lived in South Korea, I ate cabbage daily - in a spicy pickled form known as kimchi. There, it is literally served on the table for every meal as an accompaniment. Cabbage is found in tradiation dishes all over the world: steamed cabbage, pickled cabbage, cabbage soup, cabbage rolls, cabbage salads - the list doesn't end. 

Cabbage is a cool weather crop that is relatively easy to grow making it a very popular crop world-wide. Emily has travelled and lived abroad quite often, as well, and had a wealth of information about different ways to use cabbage.

In the end, I actually left the menu decision making to her when it came to the the appetizer and then main dish. There were so many options, and I really wanted to try something brand new. 

This week's menu:

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