Yesterday Mindy brought you greens and today I'm bringing you red - as in cabbage.
This is only part one of some experimenting, so let me give you the background.
On Mother's Day, my daughter took me to Dinosaur BBQ for lunch by ourselves. I had the most delicious pulled pork sandwich, but what really captured my interest was their coleslaw. It was to die for!
So, last week, to celebrate the end of school, I picked up a brisket sandwich with extra sides of cole slaw. I made one really big tactical error. I dumped the coleslaw onto the brisket before I noticed the jalapeno pickles.
OUCH!!!!!!!!
Fortunately, I 'd saved the second side to go with my fried haddock on Friday night. Seriously, that was one of the best meals ever!!!!!
But I can't keep going to Dinosaur and only buy coleslaw.
I was in the market the other day and saw a beautiful head of red cabbage. Iremembered there had been some red in the coleslaw, so I decided to experiment.
I only had red cabbage so it was a very simple experiment.
I decided to mix some honey mustard in water and simmer the cabbage briefly, then chill.
I did and it was good.
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| Honey mustard thinned with some water. |
Nothing at all like the Dinosaur coleslaw, but tasty nonetheless.
I remembered that there were seeds of some sort in it and I researched recipes. They looked like flax seeds, but the recipes say to use celery seed.
Honestly, I was going to try some variations like adding caraway seeds and grated carrots. But when I got home with the carrots and peeled the first one...YUCK.... It smelled like swamp water.
So, I give you honey mustard cabbage slaw and the promise of more variations to come.
Mindy shared her recipe here and Julie shared a favorite restaurant version here.
What's your favorite coleslaw recipe?
And in the meantime, here are some pretty photos I took in my neighborhood when the sun came out Saturday morning right after some FIERCE storms.
I wish I could have captured how magical these looked. The rain was caught in the feathery leaves and shimmered like hundreds of miniature rainbows.
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| Except for the rain droplets, who'd ever guess these had just been half drowned in a deluge. |
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| My church garden. The gardening committee does such an amazing job! |
Love the flowers and gardens and your flowers are a week or two ahead of ours... that little bit of latitude sure makes a difference!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd the rains, oy, the rains... it's time for Mother Nature to turn off the spigots for a while. On a farm you can add water... but you can't take it away, so I'm hoping for a slow down in rain and some more sun and warmth to grow these pretty veggies!
I love cole slaw variations, so I'll watch for your experiments. Some folks like the chopped tiny cabbage, some like the shredded... me? I just love cole slaw! With mayo/sweet dressing or oil dressing, with pineapple, with celery seed... (I love the tang of celery seed in slaw!)
What a fun post, Cate!
Glad you're finally out of school for the summer! I also love trying different kinds of slaw. I'll have to try the honey mustard version. But I've never had partially cooked cabbage in slaw! I'll have to give that a try. I guess it's easier to chew. :)
ReplyDeleteWe've been having torrential downpours as well. Every. Single. Day. My flowers in my garden are growing like weeds but the weeds in my garden are growing like....weeds on steroids! I can't keep up.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite coleslaw of all time is from a restaurant up here -- St. Hubert. It's creamy and delish and I can't make coleslaw to match it so I've stopped trying. :-)
Happy summering, Cate!!!!
I guess you're in the same boat, Kav. Needing to go to a restaurant for the coleslaw.
DeleteI think I found a recipe for yours.
https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=719160
What beautiful flowers, Mary Cate. And the slaw. You know I like it creamy, but hubby has been bugging me to make a vinegar based slaw to put atop sandwiches. I have yet to relent, however that may be happening very soon.
ReplyDeleteWe love coleslaw at our house, and hubby NEVER wants me to fool with my recipe. Have I not shared it here at the Cafe before? I'll have to do that later this summer!
ReplyDeleteAnd rain - send some our way! We're 5" down for the year, and winter and spring are supposed to be the time we get water! We're semi-arid, so every drop of water counts!