"cabbage salad" news and stories

Most of us who belong to a community-supported-agriculture group (CSA), have had the vaguely disappointing experience of opening our share for the week and seeing a big mound of cabbage (or zucchini, or whatever happens to be harvested that week). And what can we do with 6 cabbages? But it's the whimsy of the harvest and you have to get creative.

Blogger everybodylikes sandwiches made her cabbage share into a dinner-worthy salad with red peppers, broccoli, radishes, onion, walnuts, and raisins, and served it with a buttermilk dressing (get her recipe here).

I happen to be a cabbage lover, and so is chef Marcus Samuelsson, who offers up an earthy shiitake mushroom salad that also features Savoy cabbage. And this warm cabbage-and-apple salad with shredded pork is a one-dish meal that tastes of early fall.

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I saw this recipe in an old issue of Cooking Light (from 2003) that I had lying around and it immediately caught my eye. Why I didn't make it the first time I saw it, I'll never know, but I'm glad I did it now.

Waldorf salad isn't something that you see too often, but the combination of apples, raisins, celery and walnuts is not only addictive, but crunchy and satisfying. Coleslaw, too, is crunchy and refreshing, which is why it is such a popular side to accompany rich and meaty meals. Of course, both salads are slathered in mayo, so they're not exactly healthy foods despite having low-cal ingredients. This is one of the reasons why I liked the Cooking Light recipe, since it eliminates a lot of the fat but still tastes great. Combining the elements of the two salads into Waldorf Coleslaw worked beautifully.