spin-off ...favorite cabbage recipe

Cook down with some onions, bacon grease, salt, pepper and little Tony's.

Do a search. There are several threads from the past with great recipes. I just like it smothered down or cabbage/rice/sausage cooked down in a rice cooker. It's easy and very good. I've posted it in the past.

For the traditional New Years application smothered or cooked with corned beef and taters and carrots and black eyed peas to the side. For another application that has not crossed my taste buds in years a batch of cabbage rolls would go down very nicely.

I usually brown some smoked ham, then saute onions and add the cabbage with a little ham or chicken stock. Not much. I cut the cabbage in wedges. I like it to still have a wee bit of crisp to it.

This year, though, I think I'm going to do a slaw instead of smothered. I'm going to do a roasted bone in pork roast instead of the root beer glazed ham for a change, too. I sometimes make black eyed pea and andouille soup, but I believe I'm going to do regular black eyed peas with a little andouille and some roasted jalapenos in ham stock and add a ham shank while they cook. Cornbread, as well.

If you want something a bit different and have your smoker or charcoal going, cut in half and cut core out. Wrap in foil and salt and pepper and half stick of butter, maybe a bit of crumbled bacon. Wrap tight and toss on pit, cook until tender. Last twenty or thirty minutes open foil and let it get a bit of smoke flavor.

just made a big pot of stuffed cabbage, but I'm tired of it, so I'll go with fried