... swear it was cabbage. looked like
cabbage, felt like cabbage, this head
i picked up at the grocery store. got
it home, rinsed it off, sliced it up ---
sliced like cabbage.
was so looking forward to kapushta.
when i put it in the pan with a bit of
margerine to fry it up, it didn't smell
like cabbage. didn't smell bad, but
didn't smell ... right. my twin sister
even noticed it.
was so looking forward to kapushta.
put some onion in the pan. cabbage
and onion to go with the keilbasa and
egg noodles. that's when it hit me ---
was was supposed to be cabbage
was not cabbage at all:
hah! -- what a funny story -- this sounds like something that should have happened to me -- did I ever tell you about the time my father, who was ninety-one at the time -- cooked up a big pot of potpourri, and ate it! -- he said it was very tasty! -- he said he thought it was a package of dried soup preparation! -- whew, we laughed a long time and still do every time we recall the incident -- so lettuce, isn't so bad -- peace dear lady -- JMW
I'm dying, Karla! What a hoot! So one night, my family was having a movie night. Half an hour through the movie, I dutifully get up and run out to do all the irrigating (about 45 min), but I get back in time for the end of it-- Wuthering Hights-- I blob what looks like mashed potatoes on my plate, spoon on what looks like gravy, take a bite, and keel over dead. Cause of death: minced parsnips saturated with banana pudding!
If it's not the taste, then the surprise of the unexpected could get ya! Well, at least it looked pretty! --Charlie
Karla, you are speaking to the converted here and I'd hate to tell you what abuses I've shown to food over the years and the hideous combinations I've subjected myself and others to, at least yours sounds edible, almost appetising, but I'll settle for the egg noodles if you don't mind.
John
I can certainly emphazize with this, when my mother in law who lived with us got older she still wanted to help out by cooking supper for my wife and I as we both worked...the menu for supper that night was to be corned beef and cabbage but failing eyesight produced as you might guess corned beef and lettuce. lol
hugs
Fee
In my old enormous garden + poverty days I used to do do this with the mountains of excess lettuce I had. But for your kapushta the texture would be wrong, and the taste is so mild. (I'd put soy sauce on it, dump it over brown rice and we'd eat it. Pretend Chinese!)
... so you cook with imagination and flair?! I bet it tasted wonderful! :)) Having edited a load of cookbooks in my time, I will cook with about anything and everything and pay little heed to recipe ingredients, so this cheers me enormously. Mind you, it could explain why my visitors stick to tap water and a biscuit when they come to my house, but at least that makes entertaining relatively cheap! Go you... can't wait to try your chilli carrotcake! :)) xx
Yukk.... but I do love cabbage... not many do. Fried lettuce...no thank you! Cute story tho.... told very calm, cool and cabbaggie.... funnnnny.
lindalaw
Cabbage? Cabbage? Ain't nuttin in the world smells worst than that of cabbage cookin'. Give me the corned beef and hold the (skunk) cabbage. Well done Karla.
hehehehe! had that happen to me when I was a young cook, experimenting with foods. made a lovely boiled lettuce, tomato and bacon soup! I needed a good laugh, thanks Karla
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If it's not the taste, then the surprise of the unexpected could get ya! Well, at least it looked pretty! --Charlie
Georg
LOL
John
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Fee
we never know where the muse will strike next
good use of alternative ingredients
john+
Love the way you go from crisis to crisis, Karla.
Think I'll fix myself a BLCEE sandwich. -gene
Are you taking lessons from me? This was adorable. Guess you had Chinese instead of German. Very cute write.
Mary
lindalaw
(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :D
Karla you are a maniac and we love ya to pieces. If this really happened, I'll bet you and Karen laughed yourselves to death!!!
We must have went to the same chefs' school ... hehehe :-)
Ted
Newfie Hugs are on the way, Rose
Regis