Fried Potatoes Cabbage Ham Onions Food

COLCANNON RECIPE (CABBAGE AND POTATOES)

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook potatoes 12-15 minutes or until fork tender.
• If using white onion, dice into ½-inch pieces. If using leeks, cut off the dark greens and discard. Thinly slice the whites and light green parts, rinse well. Set aside. Cut cabbage into 1-inch pieces.
• Meanwhile, if using, cook bacon in a large skillet until crisp. Set aside to cool, reserve drippings.
• Add 1 tablespoon of butter to the bacon drippings. If you are not using bacon, add 3 tablespoons of butter to a large skillet.
• Cook onion or leeks and cabbage over medium heat in the drippings or butter until onion is translucent and cabbage is tender.
• Once cooked, drain the potatoes and place them back into the warm pot. Mash potatoes with a potato masher adding cream and ¼ cup butter as needed. Season with salt and pepper.
• Gently fold together mashed potatoes, cabbage & onions. Top with additional melted butter if desired and crumbled bacon if using.

FRIED POTATOES AND CABBAGE

Steps:

• Cover potatoes with cold salted water by 1 inch and bring to a boil, then boil, uncovered, until tender when pierced with a sharp knife, about 18 minutes. Drain in a colander.
• Heat butter in a 10-inch heavy nonstick skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then sauté cabbage with salt and pepper, stirring frequently, until tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add potatoes, mashing and stirring them into cabbage while leaving some lumps and pressing to form a cake. Cook, without stirring, until underside is crusty and golden, about 10 minutes. Serve immediately.

SKILLET HAM, CABBAGE AND POTATOES

Steps:

• In a large skillet over medium heat, saute onions in the margarine. When tender add cabbage and stir. Pour water over, cover and simmer gently on medium low for ten minutes.
• Add potatoes and mix. Cover again and allow to simmer for ten more minutes. Additional water may be needed. Sprinkle seasoning salt and paprika over cabbage and potatoes. Allow to simmer covered for an additional 5 to 10 minutes until cabbage is soft and potatoes are nearly cooked. Mix ham in and finish cooking until ham is hot and potatoes are done.

FRIED POTATOES, CABBAGE, HAM & ONIONS

Steps:

• Preheat oil in large skillet.
• Add potatoes, cook for 15 minutes.
• Then add cabbage, ham, and onion. Cook till cabbage is tender. Enjoy!

CLASSIC CABBAGE WITH HAM AND POTATOES

Steps:

• Cut cabbage head in half and pop out core.
• Clean potatoes, no need to peel, but do use a dish sponge scratchy side to scrub them really well--cut off any bad black spots. Cut in half.
• Place cabbage on bottom, then top with potatoes.
• Toss in one left over ham, bone and all (or just the few pounds of ham you've purchased for this recipe -- I can say that you almost cannot have too much ham! But, it's all got to fit in your pot! LOL!). You do not have to cut it up. I see so many recipes where they are cutting the meat off the bone in neat little cubes and adding them to the pot. That is craziness! Firstly, the bone has a LOT of flavor and secondly, why work when the steam causes it to fall off the bone? I like to just toss in the entire ham, with whatever is leftover from our meal. When the dish is ready it will literally just fall off the bone at the time of serving. That is the beauty of this dish -- easy peasy!
• It's ok to just squeeze in all the ingredients the best you can. You will be cooking at extremely low heat for a very long time, it will all be fine.
• Salt and pepper to taste -- or do like I prefer to do and add nothing until it is plated. The ham is salty so it is very easy to over salt this dish. Be careful.
• A crock pot is perhaps the best way to make this meal the first time around, however I have made it on the stove top with the heat set to the lowest setting for the past 30 years. I like to use the stove because I have a pot far larger than the crock. It's up to you. If using a crock pot, use the medium setting all day long (depending -- if you have a crappy crock, you may need to set it on high -- you know what you have). On stove, cook at lowest possible setting all day. This is the perfect meal to set up before going to work -- when you get home dinner is ready!
• I just want to make a point of saying that NO water is required. You may have a hard time believing this. My mother certainly does and has ruined many pots as she will dump a tall glass (or 2) of water in when I'm not looking. Unfortunately you then wind up with a pot of water with ham, cabbage and potatoes swimming around begging to be rescued--and you lose a ton of flavor. DO NOT ADD WATER. Please trust me. There will be plenty of juice from the cabbage. So much so that you will most likely throw it out (though I like to use it as broth to pour over the dogs' dry food).
• So, quick recap -- just clean everything and squeeze it all into you pot or crock. For stove top, cook at lowest setting all day long, crock -- go for medium.

FRIED CABBAGE WITH HAM

Steps:

• 1. In a large skillet with a fitted lid, start by frying the bacon until done, then set it aside.
• 2. Next, over medium heat, add the oil to the bacon fat, then add onion and about half of the cabbage. Continue stirring and adding cabbage until you get it all in the pan. Once it's in the pan add the water, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until the cabbage has softened (about 20 min).
• 3. Remove the lid and add the bacon, ham, salt and pepper, and cook until all of the water has evaporated. Add more seasoning if needed.

HAM, ONION AND POTATO CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Pan fry ham and chopped onion in olive oil until onions are lightly browned.
• While onions and ham are cooking, peel potatoes and slice paper thin.
• Butter a medium casserole dish and place sauteed ham and onion inside.
• Salt and pepper the ham and onions.
• preheat oven at 325 degrees.
• Melt butter in a sauce pan, remove from heat and blend in flour. Return to heat and add milk or rice dream rice milk. Stir over direct heat until sauce boils and thickens.
• Arrange potatoes over ham and pour milk and flour mixture over them over them.
• Sprinkle potatoes with chives and basil flakes.
• Bake at 325 degrees until potatoes are tender, about 1 hour. Cover for first 1/2 hour then remove cover.