Shredding It: A Cabbage Cookbook: Brassbright Cooks, #2

By Lori Alden Holuta

On a cold winter day, Shredding It will help you create a comfort meal to warm the body and soul. On a hot summer afternoon, you can choose from a variety of recipes for cool, refreshingly crisp slaws and creative salads. Knowing how to make a well-tucked savory cabbage roll is an art form you'll soon master. And of course, everyone should have a favorite coleslaw recipe ready to whip up on a moment's notice. Get ready to learn how our grandparents cooked, and to explore new dishes using our old friend, the humble cabbage.

 

You'll be shredding it in no time!

 

And yes... in case you wondered, there IS a dessert section.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brassbright Press
• Release date: Jun 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224910588

Lori Alden Holuta

Lori Alden Holuta lives between the cornfields in Michigan, where she grows herbs and vegetables when she’s not playing games with a cat named Chives. She’s fond of crafting, reading in the dark, literary worldbuilding, and pulling up dandelions.

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Shredding It

A Cabbage Cookbook

Volume Two in the Brassbright Cooks Series

Lori Alden Holuta

Edited by Ken Holuta

Author’s cover photo courtesy of John-Michael O'Brien at PhotoNinjas.net

Graphic Credits: Vintage graphics used throughout this cookbook are in the public domain. Many of them were curated by The Graphics Fairy (thegraphicsfairy.com), a delightful website you should visit and support.

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I’m dedicating this cookbook to my favorite celebrity chefs and foodies! They have inspired, instructed, and entertained me throughout the years. Some of them I’ve loved since I was a kid baking tiny cakes in my Kenner Easy-Bake Oven.

Julia Child • James May • Duff Goldman • Alton Brown

Anthony Bourdain • Phil Rosenthal • Jacques Pépin

Jon Favreau • Bobby Flay • Guy Fieri • Max Miller

Valerie Bertinelli • Martin Yan • Emeril Lagasse

Mario Batali • Graham Kerr • Samin Nosrat

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Contents

But Lori, Why Cabbage?

Measuring Up

1-2-3 Cook!

Cabbage is a New Cook’s Best Friend

And Now a Word from the Lawyers

To Index or Not to Index

Reviving Retro Recipes

My Mom Called It Something Else!

Opening a Can of Confusion

The Soup Can Situation

Oleo-Oh-No! Outdated Ingredients

Old Ingredient Substitution Suggestions

Upcycling Vintage Recipes

Cabbage-Centric Recipe Revamps

Weird Cabbage Trivia

APPETIZERS

‘Flowering’ Cabbage

Bacon Cabbage Dippers

PICKLED, RELISHES & SALSA

Basic Sauerkraut

Pickled Red Cabbage

Absurdly Easy Kimchi

Cabbage Salsa

Beet Relish for Canning

Garden Melody Corn Relish

SALADS

Magic Ramen Salad

Cabbage & Noodles Salad

Sweet & Sour Cabbage Salad

SLAWS

Ken’s Favorite Coleslaw

Retro Slaw

Kathy's Cole Slaw for Two

Pushcart Coleslaw

Sara Ramsey Bennett’s Cole Slaw

Slippery Slaw

Tossed Salad Slaw

Peg’s Favorite Slaw

SOUPS & STEWS

Sauerkraut Soup

Hamburger Vegetable Soup

Red Cabbage & Sausage Soup

Quick Bean & Cabbage Soup

Poor Man’s Stew

MAIN DISHES

Aunt Julia’s Holupki

Holupki For a Crowd

Toltott-Kaposzta Hungarian Stuffed Cabbage

Cabbage Unrolls

Deconstructed Cabbage Rolls

Beth’s Corned Beef & Cabbage

Simple Corned Beef & Cabbage

Corned Beef & Cabbage Omelet

Meatballs & Cabbage

Crazy Patties

Dorrie’s Pork & Sauerkraut

Creamy Pork & Sauerkraut

Midwest Sauerkraut Hot Dish

Middle European Pork & Sauerkraut Roast

No-Fuss Baked Casserole

Simple Cabbage Casserole

Virginia’s Cabbage Creole

Mom's Quick Fried Cabbage Dinner

Cabbage Pie

Lori’s Fast Fish Tacos

SIDE DISHES

A Bubble & Squeak Tutorial

Irish Colcannon

Scottish Rumbledethumps

Indian-ish Cabbage

Sweet & Sour Cabbage

Cheesy Cabbage

Cabbage Fritters

Cabbage Parmesan

Cabbage & Comforts

Homemade Potato Noodles with Cabbage

Quick Fried Cabbage & Noodles

DESSERTS

Julie’s Sweet Haluski

Cabbage Strudel

Sauerkraut Surprise Cake

Sour Cream Frosting for Surprise Cake

Still Hungry?

About the Author

Books by Lori Alden Holuta

Let them fart fire and brimstone... I will not have a single case of scurvy on my hands, the sea-surgeon’s shame, while there is cabbage to be culled.

Patrick O'Brian's 1978 novel, Desolation Island

In the 1700s it was found that sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) could prevent the deadly scurvy that killed many sailors on long sea voyages.

South Dakota State University Extension Website

But Lori, Why Cabbage?

This cookbook is the result of inventing a fictional holiday called Greensday, which is celebrated by characters in a novel I’m writing called Down the Tubes. When my characters get hungry, I often feed them something from my recipe collection. When I realized that the official vegetable of Greensday was going to be cabbage, I knew it was only a matter of time before I’d give in and create a