We are eating red cabbage tonight and I’m already looking forward to it! This is such a classic that reminds everyone of their grandma. At least if your grandma was Dutch or German. I’m not sure how popular this food is elsewhere, but it’s delicious, healthy and cheap. My organic red cabbage weighs about a kilo and cost €2. So that’s one cabbage that will serve a whole family - we’ll just heat it up tomorrow.
Recipe for red cabbage with apple
Slice the cabbage (this is easy and only takes a few minutes, not more difficult than slicing lettuce)
Put in a large pot, bring to the boil, add a few bay leaves, a few cloves, a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, a splash of apple cider vinegar. A little bit of brown sugar is optional.
Let this stew for about an hour, stir occasionally.
Dice a few apples (2 or 3) stir the apple into the cabbage.
Serve when the apple is warm and soft (maybe 5 minutes).
It’s freezes and reheats well, and while it has to stew for a while, it only needs to be stirred every now and then so you can just let it stew while doing other things (my favourite type of cooking).
Traditionally, this would be served with mashed potatoes, a meat stew, meatballs in gravy or game. Which would typically be rabbit, hare or wild boar here.
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Next is a chili using delicious turkey stock I made the other day. Just waiting for the pressure cooker to decompress, all the legumes I could find went in there for 25 mins. It’ll clearly be heavy on the veg.
We had macaroni with mushroom sauce and it was so good! Serves 4. Doesn’t require exact measurements
Prepare 400 gr. macaroni according to the package
Cut up 600 gr. mushrooms. I used 400 gr chestnut mushrooms and a 200 gr pack of mixed mushrooms with Italian herbs, that included portobello mushrooms and nemoko. I used the herbs that came with the mushrooms, which was rosemary and sage. Otherwise you can use whatever you happen to have.
Fry them for 4 minutes in oil
Stir in 40 grams of capers and 2 teaspoons of paprika powder. Fry for another minute, then stir in 200 grams of cream fraiche and 100 gr of cream, turn the heat down and leave to stew for 4 more minutes
Stir in the macaroni, a little splash of the liquid the capers came in, heat for another minute.
Done! Serve with salt & pepper & parmesan.
My favourite Skeppshult cast iron skillet cracked while I was making an omelette yesterday not a little crack but a huge crack across the bottom. It was my favourite I didn’t do anything wrong, cared for it properly, didn’t overheat it, I don’t know what went wrong. But the good thing is Skeppshult apparantly has a 25-year warranty, so I e-mailed the store to find out how that works. Mine is 6 years old, it cost around €50 back then, but the same one costs more than €100 now. So it’s worth a try. I’m so tired of stuff breaking all the time, apparantly even quality products.
I accidentally made bread yesterday… It was a test to see if the baking machine is broken (it is) and I didn’t want the ingredients for the dough to go to waste. It’s tiny since I added ingredients for the smaller size loaf.
I finally retired these spice jars I’ve had for longer than my partner, ha! They barely fit in the space we have for them, gotta be jammed in & yanked out hard. It’s a pain.
The dollar store had sets of 4 mini mason jars for a couple bucks (same product at the hardware store cost $12!). Got some self-laminating stickers (cool!) & hit the bulk barn for allll the spices. Much better fit and they actually hold more!
Oof! shaking because I’m in so much pain, and with that should not have tried to make a couple batches of aloo paratha…I think I got more potatos on the counter than in the parathas.
Nice browning on those parathas, they look very tasty.
We did a costco run after work & even though that’s exhausting all the food stuffs get me wanting to cook. A big pot of pasta sauce & another of bean, beet, beef soup later, I’m ready to collapse into bed
1+1/2 c. milk
1 c. heavy cream
8 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 pinches of nutmeg (needs more, )
1/2 c. butter (didn’t need this much. 2 Tbls or 3 at best, or none at all, ).
1/2 c. sugar
6 slices, shredded, of a french brioche.
caramel glaze: 1/4 c. sugar and 2 tbls water.
baked at 325° in a water bath for 1h 15m.
I wanted it extra thick, so I tried to put in more…still not thick enough for my liking, .
I’m still debating on putting it outside (it’s about 31° right now, heh).
Edit:
Uh oh! it’s chilled…and if I top it with some ground nutmeg…it’s…sooooooo…gooooooooooooooood…My tummy aches…I really need to stop making this stuff…
not a little crack but a huge crack across the bottom. It was my favourite 
I didn’t do anything wrong, cared for it properly, didn’t overheat it, I don’t know what went wrong. But the good thing is Skeppshult apparantly has a 25-year warranty, so I e-mailed the store to find out how that works. Mine is 6 years old, it cost around €50 back then, but the same one costs more than €100 now. So it’s worth a try. I’m so tired of stuff breaking all the time, apparantly even quality products.
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