Not that we need comfort food in Florida this time of year, but it is practically St. Patrick’s Day and with that comes corn beef and cabbage. Corn beef and cabbage? Yum. Count me in!
In my opinion, the best part about this dish happens to be the cabbage. Not only does it come from garden this time of year–always and added plus–it takes on a whole new personality when sautéed with sweet onions. Granted my sweet onions aren’t ready yet (still “bartering” with gardeners from other parts of the world at the moment for my onion supply), but thank goodness for the grocery store, right? I mean, I don’t raise beef, either but it doesn’t prevent me from enjoying the taste every now and again.
Back to my cabbage. This is one of my husband’s favorites. Born and raised in Ohio, his family has been making this comfort food for years. But being from Miami, I never heard of it until I met him. We ate mangos and plantains, fried chicken and grits. (That’s what happens when you transplant a Georgia family to South Florida–cra-zy!) All good food and comforting to a degree, but this dish has fast become a favorite of mine, too. How can you not like a dish with three simple ingredients?
It’s perfect. The only challenge comes in the fact that you have to “work” this dish and by that I mean actually stand stove-side and stir, flip, rotate–you know, cook! That’s where I tend to have issue. What requires a golden butter brown saute ends up caramelized quickly in my kitchen. I could blame it on the high heat of my electric stove (real cooks use gas) or the fact that I multi-task while cooking. Who can ignore the buzzer on a dryer full of warm wrinkle-free clothes? Not me!
But truly it’s all good. My cabbage dish turns out sweet and delightful and more importantly–edible. Never good to mess up hubby’s favorite dish (if you know what I mean) so I do try to pay attention and caramelizing is a good thing. If it works for French onion soup, it can work for cabbage and onions. And just look at these results.
Are you salivating, yet? Thought you would be! Now head on over to my recipe section for complete details on how to conjure up this gourmet delight in your kitchen tonight!
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