Grandma Lauras Cabbage Dinner Food

MY GRANDMA'S BRAISED CABBAGE

Steps:

• In a medium pot or Dutch oven, cook the onions in the butter over medium heat until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the cabbage and cook, stirring, for a few minutes. Add the apple, brown sugar, wine, vinegar, and water, and bring up to a simmer, stirring. Cover and braise for 30 minutes, stirring once and checking on the texture. Cook a little less for a firmer cabbage; a little more for softer cabbage.
• Add a small splash of cider vinegar just before serving.

GRANDMA'S CABBAGE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large stockpot, heat olive oil over medium heat.
• Stir in onion and garlic, cook until onion is transparent, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in water, bouillon, salt and pepper.
• Bring to a boil, then stir in cabbage.
• Simmer until cabbage wilts, about 15 minutes.
• Stir in tomatoes.
• Return to a boil, then simmer 15 to 20 minutes, stirring often.

GRANDMA'S CABBAGE LAYERED MEATLOAF

Steps:

• Sauce:
• Saute onion and celery in butter in 1-quart heavy saucepan until tender, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes.
• Meatloaf:
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Chop cabbage coarsely. Cook in salted boiling water, uncovered, 5 minutes; drain. Combine bread crumbs, dry milk, water, salt, and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Mix in meat.
• Pat half of the meat mixture into bottom of an 8 in. square baking pan. Combine cabbage and half of the cheese. Spread over meat. Top with remaining meat mixture. Spoon sauce over all.
• Bake 55-60 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle the rest of the cheese. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

GRANDMOTHER'S LAMB RECIPE

Steps:

• Place the cumin seeds into a dry skillet over medium heat, and toast them, stirring constantly, until they give off a roasted fragrance and turn a darker brown, about 1 minute. Scrape the seeds into a bowl, and allow to cool. When cool, grind them with a mortar and pestle or a clean spice grinder. Set the ground seed aside.
• Remove stems of chiles if necessary, and soak pods in the apple cider vinegar in a bowl until soft, at least 1 hour. Place the softened chiles with vinegar, cumin, and garlic into a blender or food processor, and pulse until ground into a paste, 30 seconds to 1 minute or as needed.
• Heat the vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat, and cook and stir the onions until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Stir in ginger garlic paste and about 1 teaspoon of the Grandmother's Chile Paste mixture or as desired. Reduce heat to medium-low, and fry the onions with the spice pastes for 5 minutes to blend flavors. Stir in tomato paste, ground red pepper, turmeric, cinnamon, and cloves, and bring to a simmer. Cook to blend flavors, about 20 minutes.
• Mix in the lamb shank pieces, and stir in salt to taste; simmer for 20 minutes, and stir in the water. Bring the lamb and sauce to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer, and simmer until lamb is very tender and sauce has thickened, 45 more minutes. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro to serve.

GRANDMA LAURA'S CABBAGE DINNER

Steps:

• Wash potatoes and cabbage.
• Shred cabbage into bite size pieces.
• Peel and slice potatoes.
• Peel onion and dice.
• Cut bacon into bite size pieces.
• Heat frying pan and add the butter or vegetable oil for frying. (I use butter for frying, but everyone has different tastes.) Add the bacon and let fry for just a couple minutes.
• Then add potatoes, onion, and cabbage to the pan.Season with salt and pepper. Stir every 5-10 mins so it does not stick.
• While bacon, potatoes, onion, and cabbage is cooking, in a separate skillet fry the pound of ground beef until no pink is no longer visible. Drain. (I do this separately to lessen the grease).
• Check potatoes and cabbage to see if they are done.I like to have my potatoes and cabbage brown a bit. Depending on how many potatoes and cabbage you use, cooking time varies, but usually about half an hour. Once everything is cooked, add the ground beef and serve.