Well here I am bacheloring it again. My lovely wife is off in Washington busily preparing for grandchild number three’s arrival sometime in the next month and I am stuck left here in Idaho to fend for myself. The great thing about being on my own — my menu improves. I can eat burgers for breakfast lunch and dinner and I get no complaints. I was looking forward to some time alone.
As I was leaving Washington on my way back to Idaho with visions of cheese burgers dancing in my head, my lovely wife dropped a bomb on my menu plans. “Promise me you will eat one healthy meal a day,” she said. Now I have to figure out how to make burgers healthier. I think this fried cabbage is close.
After I got back to Idaho I was skimming through one of my favorite web sites, Talk Hunting, and I came across a recipe for fried cabbage by a member with the user name n_herbert. As I read this simple recipe, I thought to myself that this could solve my healthy meal problem. I mean cabbage is a vegetable and vegetables are healthy so this would be a healthy meal. I read the rest of the recipe and it was an easy dish to make too. Add the cabbage to the oatmeal for breakfast and I have the eating healthy thing taken care of for the first week.
The original recipe is for more than one person so I did have to cut down on the ingredients. Instead of 2 heads of cabbage I used about half of a small head. I also cut down on the bacon as well. Instead of using a whole pound of ends and pieces I fried up 4 slices of thick cut bacon and set aside. I diced up half an onion and cooked them just until they turned clear.
Then I added the cabbage and crumbled up the bacon, added salt and pepper to taste and mixed it all together. I covered the cast iron skillet and let the whole thing simmer until the cabbage was nice and tender.
The bacon and onion flavor made the cabbage taste great. I enjoyed my dinner and was very pleased with myself. I called my wife in the evening and told her I had eaten a healthy meal. I told her I ate fried cabbage and she asked how I made it. She said, “The cabbage may be healthy, but the bacon fat is what I want you to cut down on.” I replied, “You wanted me to eat healthier so I am; I had to smother it in bacon grease to make it taste good.”
Luckily She is 500 miles away so I am not sleeping in the dog house now and I am sure she will talk to me again one of these days.
If I ever get up the courage, maybe I’ll try one of these other CliqueClack healthy cabbage recipes:
Clacked by Jeff Love
on May 05, 2010 @ 10:00 EST5EDT
This is a very good and quick dish. Thanks.
Sounds like it came out well. I smother mine with onions, bacon grease, garlic, and one can of chicken broth. Put the lid on it and cook it down. Now that’s a redneck healthy meal.