When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And when a member of faculty leaves a cabbage on the table for anyone to take, make Warm Red Cabbage Salad with Pecans.
Doesn’t quite have the same ring.
I walked into the faculty room innocently at lunch and there was a whole red cabbage sitting on a table with a sign that said “please take me!” I found out later it had been destined to be a science experiment, but some students were absent so it never even entered the science lab. Perfect! It can enter the kitchen lab instead!
So I searched through the orange book for some delicious red cabbage recipes and found this!
Warm, crunchy, cheesy, this salad has nice contrast: sweet pecans and apples with salty olives; crunchy cabbage and pecans with smooth cheese; pink cabbage and apples with white cheese. Visually arresting and good!
Brightens up a winter evening!
From Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Yield: 4-6 servings
Ingredients:
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 red onion, quartered and thinly sliced
1 small red cabbage, about 1 1/4 pounds, quartered and thinly sliced
Salt and freshly milled pepper
3 ounces crumbled goat cheese or mild feta
1 red apple, quartered and thinly sliced
1/4 cup pitted and chopped Kalamata olives
1 tablespoon each chopped parsley and marjoram
1/2 cup pecans or walnuts, roasted
Directions:
Heat the garlic, vinegar, and oil in a wide skillet, add the onion, and cook for 30 seconds. Add the cabbage, season with 1/2 teaspoon salt, and cook over high heat, tossing constantly with tongs. When the leaves begin to soften and change from red to pink, remove from the heat. Add the remaining ingredients and toss just enough to combine them, then remove from the heat. Season with plenty of pepper and serve warm.