i love cabbage stir fried with olive oil and crushed red pepper.

 

Mmmmmm,cabbage fried up with a big onion. Or steamed with shredded carrots. We eat alot of cabbage. Or some clone KFC coleslaw. Don't know why people don't eat more cabbage as it is always a frugal choice.

 

dont forget kale it fixes or strengthens your mitochondria.

 

and then there is that sooo much better than "store bought" home made kraut!

 

cabbage on the grill... sprinkled with Garlic salt and butter, wrapped in bacon....oh yum... I love cabbage...

 

I cant ever get cabbage to sprout here. Bak choy grows well but for some reason cabbage wont even sprout.

 

Steamed buttered cabbage and fried cornbread. I could eat it for every meal.

 

I cant ever get cabbage to sprout here. Bak choy grows well but for some reason cabbage wont even sprout.

#1 Where is here?

#2 Cabbage does well as a transplant. So you can sprout it in peat pots. That's what we do for an early crop. Then we direct so the rest.

 

here are a few pictures..

Cabbage plant.

Just pull it out.

Here is the leaves pulled off.

Here are two hung for storage.

The heads pictured are as big as a soccer ball and weigh about 10 lbs. Right there is 20 lbs of food storage.

 

We find that cabbage can last for many months in our cold room. we store it pretty much the same way you do.

I can't stand cooked cabbage, but since it is so good for a person, I started making coleslaws. Now we eat this probably 3 times a week, at least.

 

I eat a lot of cabbage. Just a big wedge raw.

 

I've got jars of sauerkraut going on top of the refrigerator, cabbage in the fridge waiting to be turned into coleslaw and some out in the garden still. I started them in Jiffy pellets like Stan did. Cabbage and onions fried together in butter and added to boiled noodles is very good, too, called halushka (your spelling may differ).

 

if you are forced to buy it at the store, can you still keep it till spring?
What I'm getting at is, would you recommend we stock up on this right now before the price of it goes up in the winter?

 

seeing cabbages hanging in the basement must make you smile. Nothing like piggies and taters on a cold day

 

seeing cabbages hanging in the basement must make you smile. Nothing like piggies and taters on a cold day

Yep, It is true. I am a Pole. Sausage is Kielbasa, Cabbage is used for halupki(stuffed cabbage), haluski (fried cabbage), and kapusniak (cabbage soup.)

It warms the soul.

 

if you are forced to buy it at the store, can you still keep it till spring?
What I'm getting at is, would you recommend we stock up on this right now before the price of it goes up in the winter?

It won't keep near as well without the stalk. Cabbage is however generally cheap in winter. It's in summer that it's "expensive". But even then it's still kinda cheap.

 

In view of our freeze tonight, I covered up my cabbages with blankets and gave them a good pep talk!

 

In view of our freeze tonight, I covered up my cabbages with blankets and gave them a good pep talk!

They will be fine. Cabbage are good o the mid 20's. But they will benefit from a good talking too. LOL

 

Love it,Sauerkraut here . Cabbage and salt is a frugal bunch of meals .

 

Yep, It is true. I am a Pole. Sausage is Kielbasa, Cabbage is used for halupki(stuffed cabbage), haluski (fried cabbage), and kapusniak (cabbage soup.)

It warms the soul.

Now that is correct . Pole here too !

 

love this salad
head of cabbage coarse chop, 2 packs dry ramen noodles broken up, and chopped chicken or turkey
dressing
cup of oil
1/2 cup redwine vinegar
tablespoon of sugar
flavor packets from ramen

also like to stuff the leaves w/ a spicy meat & rice mix & bake covered in tomato sauce

 

Now that is correct . Pole here too !

Welcome to the club!! cabbage is kapusta in Polska (sauerkraurt is also kapusta

for those worried about frost, my daddy, (1st generation Pole) was extremely fussy about his cabbage used to make his kraut (that he was well known for)...he insisted on using cabbage that had been kissed by frost.

a helpful hint from my babcia's kitchen, when making halupki (aka pigs in the blanket, cabbage rolls, piggies, galwumkis), most folks boil the head of cabbage to make the leaves pliable. She froze the whole head the day before. Saves a big step.

 

I have a friend who makes sauerkraut and (drop) dumplings with kielbasa chopped up in it. It is so good. Is that a polish dish too?

 

I like savoy cabbage the best, so good. Nothing I like better than cabbage rolls. Had them this week.

 

I have a friend who makes sauerkraut and (drop) dumplings with kielbasa chopped up in it. It is so good. Is that a polish dish too?

For a quick lesson in the word Kielbasa..

Kielbasa means Sausage the word Kielbasa has no more meaning than to say sausage. So to a pole you had kraut, with dumplings and sausage. Sounds German

Then why is the word kielbasa used to note a ring type stuffed smoked garlic sausage?
Basically it was marketing. The Polish gov under the communists needed an export for cash (to pay for imports of oil, and other sundries) Sausage was it and Czosnkowa was the recipe that was decided. The government mandated the recipe and had strict quality controls. Because of this. Kielbasa became world known and was of the highest quality. That is why the word Kielbasa is known and revered even today.

"American Kielbasa" from the likes of Oscar Myer, Hillshire farms, Hatfield isn't Kielbasa Czosnkowa. It is a steam cooked emulsified meat paste packed in collagen with artificial smoke flavor.

So which did you have?