cabbage recipes?

[ratcreature]

Winter is upon us in the northern hemisphere, which limits the selection of affordable vegetables. Cabbage in several varieties (mostly white, red, savoy and kale) however is still plentiful and reasonably cheap here, so it features somewhat prominently in my current menu choices.

So for variety's sake I thought I'd ask my f-list for your favorite cabbage recipes. Provided the ingredients for them besides cabbage are easily available and also in my price range. I mean, cabbage with truffles and the like may be tasty, but it kind of defeats the whole point of it being an affordable vegetable.

I'm vegetarian, so any dish that absolutely relies on meat is out. Dairy is okay, though the recent soaring prices for milk and its products worked better than my ethical qualms about animal exploitation to turn my diet more vegan, so vegan would be a plus.

Comments

[gnatkip.livejournal.com]

These aren't precisely like my recipes, because mine are in my head, but they're close.

Potato kale soup (http://www.recipezaar.com/149098). Kale is one of my favorite things. I don't use turnips or chorizo.

Borscht (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/value/v_vegborscht.html). So gorgeous, if you like beets. I use carrots rather than potatoes.

[ratcreature]

Thanks for the links. I like beets as long as they are fresh either cooked or raw and not pickled. As a kid the only kind of beet that was served was pickled beets which are disgusting (IMO), so I thought I just hated beets until I once ate some very tasty shredded red stuff as an adult in a winter salad in a restaurant and found out that it was raw beets afterwards. *g*

I just looked at the Borscht recipe, and I don't have a slow cooker. Does this work when you cook it in a normal pot on the stove too?

[gnatkip.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry, I didn't read them closely. I just use a normal pot. I do have a slow cooker, but I never use it; I get the sense it's intended for big hunks of meat maybe, I don't know.