A microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan

[venta]

Once long ago on LJ, I made braised red cabbage and remarked that it was so lovely "I don't know why people don't eat it all the time". That was at the beginning of 2007, and I don't think I've made it since :(

Anyway, at the weekend I picked up a red cabbage at the greengrocers with the intention of braising. Sunday didn't go quite to plan so the cabbage with Sunday dinner just got boiled[*], but later in the week there was time for braising.

I no longer live in the house with the cookbook I used last time, so instead used this recipe. Well, I say used. More read, and then approximated. And gosh, isn't the cider I bought from the lovely microbrewery in Lancashire explosive when you open it?

Anyway, braised red cabbage is still awesome (I had it with sausages this time). But my new discovery is how exciting it is if you put sour cream on it. One bowl hot red cabbage, one dollop sour cream... an excellent accompaniment to a plate of ham sandwiches.

[*] .. which with the kale and the carrots did mean that the rather random and unplanned dinner served to leathellin was borderline psychedelic in its multicolouredness.

Comments

[lnr]

I love the idea of psychedelic dinner. Did you perhaps stir the red cabbage with your right hand?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I would have done, only as any fule kno, boiling red cabbage would give you a blue right hand :)

One kudo to you.

[lnr]

Depends if you add vinegar ;)

Love that song.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I love it, too. Nick Cave was properly awesome at Glastonbury this summer - and did that song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9HAwavdlkc) as an encore. If you have the time (and I know parents of small children always have loads of time ;) it's well worth tracking down the set.

[lnr]

Oh that's good - thanks for the link! I saw him in Cambridge quite a few years back - he's amazing live, but seeing a glasto set would have been awesome.

[rapperaddict.livejournal.com]

For truly worryingly coloured food, you can make chicken stew with purple carrots. The carrots dye all the other vegetables various shadesof dark blue and the chicken electric blue (and your tongue and gingers a kind of Royal blue. Makes for an exciting reenactment dinner...
Braised red cabbage sounds really nice though.

[rapperaddict.livejournal.com]

Apologies, that should be 'fingers' not 'gingers'. No idea what colour that would go...