Pork and Cabbage Dumplings

It’s harvest season and cabbages are appearing. While that veggie is tremendously versatile, there are moments when "cabbage” + “pasta” come to mind. (It’s a Hungarian “thing”.)

No surprise that this combo also appears in far east cuisine in the form of dumplings. We enjoy dumplings, though do not often get to restaurants that excel at making them. Truth is it can be fun to make them at home and it’s surprisingly easy!

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Cool Slaw

This recipe is over 40 years old, from the groundbreaking book "Recipes for a Small Planet" - a plea for the adoption of environmental vegetarianism.

It was aimed at teens - and the dressing is almost like a smoothie!

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Creamy Coleslaw

If you Google "coleslaw" you'll get 17 million recipes. "Creamy coleslaw" refines the search results to only 1.25 million.

So why should I share a coleslaw recipe?

Because one goal of this blog is to record family favourites, and this is the coleslaw I used to make.

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Red Cabbage Salad with Apples and Walnuts

This recipe comes from Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner - the talent behind my most favourite cafe in NYC - Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Galerie.

The idea of mixing crunchy red cabbage with lingonberry preserves caught my attention right away.

This almost turns red cabbage into candy - though the more sophisticated palate of the chef / author stresses that there is a subtle sweet-sour balance that makes the salad distinctive.

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Hungarian Cabbage Rolls (Töltött Káposzta)

You will not be surprised to learn there are tons of variations on cabbage rolls - influenced by family and culture.

Most recipes for Hungarian Cabbage Rolls use a tomato sauce, though oddly, the Hamilton Hungarian Community's annual cabbage roll sale offers up a version that is more "paprikash" - and just at the moment I don't have a recipe for that.

This recipe does a pretty good job of replicating my mother's / grandmother's version of cabbage rolls.

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Hungarian Noodles with Cabbage

Flour, eggs, water and whatever.

That could well have been "a fundamental" for peasant cooking in Hungary. While I do not know the facts behind this custom, authentic and thorough Hungarian cookbooks will share many recipes for pasta mixed with various things.

Here's noodles with cabbage!

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Cabbage Soup

This is a favourite recipe in the KB Kitchen - a classic Hungarian dish that is enjoyed as soon as cabbages appear at markets and all through Winter and Spring.

Make a double batch. As is often the case, this soup is better on day two!

Dis you know that abbage is a great source for vitamins C, B6 and folate?

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