Sometimes when we discuss food that we grew up eating, Sparks laughs and asks how I managed to make it through childhood. There’s all sorts of stuff that I didn’t have growing up. I didn’t eat hamburger helper until I was in my 20s. I didn’t have manwich until I started dating Sparks. We just didn’t eat that stuff, but I swear I can’t remember what we did eat. I remember a lot of soup and burgers but I don’t remember much else. <\/p>\n
My mom hates to cook, maybe she always did. Now she seems to eat a goodly amount of canned soup. Other than the battles of the peas and lima beans, I can’t tell you what I ate as a child. However, I was a fat kid as well as a fat adult, so obviously I was eating something.<\/p>\n
Another thing I don’t recall eating before (maybe I just blacked out all of the things I didn’t like) was fried cabbage. I remember having cabbage rolls a few times, and I just ate the filling and left the cabbage. We also ate sauerkraut with hot dogs, so I guess it’s kind of close.<\/p>\n
A friend posted this recipe on facebook this week. It sounded good so I gave it a try. I liked it so much that I ate until I was stuffed to the gills. <\/p>\n
FRIED CABBAGE WITH polish sausage<\/p>\n
This is a quick and easy dish and makes a meal served with cornbread.
\n3 tablespoons bacon grease
\n1 small head of cabbage, chopped
\n1 small onion, chopped
\n1\/2 of red pepper if you wanna
\n1 pound polish sausage, sliced into round pieces (I use smoked sausage)
\n1 (15 ounce) can diced tomatoes
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\n1\/2 teaspoon pepper
\nfew drops of hot sauce (optional)<\/p>\n
Put bacon grease in large skillet. Add cabbage, onion, and red pepper if you use the red pepper and cook on medium high for about 5 minutes stirring to keep from sticking to pan. Add remaining ingredients, cover and simmer for 20 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 25 minutes.
\nMakes about 8 servings.<\/p>\n
The cabbage picked up a lovely bacony flavor, how can you go wrong with that? It was also super easy, the only change I would make is to use the mandolin on the cabbage next time, it was it pretty big chunks. I also left out the red pepper – both because Sparks hates it and Wal-Mart didn’t have any other than in 3 packs when I stopped to pick up the cabbage and sausage. This is definitely budget friendly, I got the cabbage and sausage for less than $5 and I already had everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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