Cabbage Harvest

I went ahead and harvested the rest of the cabbage in the garden even though the heads weren't as big as I would have liked.  I needed the space for tomatoes and okra.  I picked all of the remaining cabbage and pulled off the outer leaves and fed them to the cows.

The rest of the cabbage

In an earlier post, we showed how we made sauerkraut.  Today we'll show a couple of other things we do with cabbage.  With three of the heads we washed them up.

Washed up cabbage heads

Today we're making a deliciously simple dish we make quite often - Cole Slaw.  We put the cut up cabbage in the food processor and shred it up.  We add some pecans and almonds as well for a twist.


Shredded Cabbage

We poor it into a big bowl so that we can stir the remaining ingredients in.

Shredded cabbage and pecans/almonds

My bride then adds some cracked black pepper and kosher salt.

Next, she adds a couple tablespoons of apple cider vinegar.

And then she adds several spoonfuls of homemade mayonnaise.  That reminds me, in a later post I'll show how Tricia makes homemade mayonnaise.  I'm not a mayonnaise guy.  I've never really liked it, but this is different and good.

Stir it all up and put in the fridge for a little while to let the flavors come together for a bit.  Then enjoy!


Cole Slaw

For the rest of the cabbage, Tricia washed it.

She shreds all of it in the food processor...

She had a lot once she was done.  Some of it we'll bag up and keep in the fridge to make more cole slaw since we all enjoy it.

Then the rest of it was blanched, bagged in gallon freezer bags and put into the freezer.  We'll pull them out and cook as we need it for a side dish.  That does it for the 2013 cabbage crop.