The Answer May Surprise You
If you had to choose one food to eat for the rest of your life, barring all other foods, what would it be?
Mine would be cabbage.
I love winter because you can start eating the type of hearty, Eastern European-influenced foods that I grew up with in Cleveland. Cabbage and noodles. Stuffed cabbage. Sour cabbage pierogi. Cabbage and kishka.
Lately I've been making fried cabbage with onions and apples (Rome - they're not too soft and they impart a lovely rosy hue), seasoned with Penzey's Russian sausage seasoning, and maybe a bit of beer. Luckily I've been able to find Mrs. Miller's kluski here, albeit at absurdly inflated prices.
If you're in Cleveland, please do go to Sokolowski's University Inn for me, and chow on their cabbage rolls until you're able to flatulate in oom-pah-pah rhythm. They really are worth it.
Mine would be cabbage.
I love winter because you can start eating the type of hearty, Eastern European-influenced foods that I grew up with in Cleveland. Cabbage and noodles. Stuffed cabbage. Sour cabbage pierogi. Cabbage and kishka.
Lately I've been making fried cabbage with onions and apples (Rome - they're not too soft and they impart a lovely rosy hue), seasoned with Penzey's Russian sausage seasoning, and maybe a bit of beer. Luckily I've been able to find Mrs. Miller's kluski here, albeit at absurdly inflated prices.
If you're in Cleveland, please do go to Sokolowski's University Inn for me, and chow on their cabbage rolls until you're able to flatulate in oom-pah-pah rhythm. They really are worth it.
posted by Christine Borne at 7:17 PM
4 Comments:
i was just on their website today, funny. i was thinking how i wanted to make potato pancakes, so i printed out all their recipes.
Ha - found your blog from a link on the notmartha site...I'm from Cleveland (Berea, to be exact), and have been living in Nashville, TN for about 8 years, and people make fun of my accent ALL the time, and I don't even think I have one. So, I guess, all I'm really saying is, I can relate.
Also, there is a definite lack of pierogies and cabbage in Nashville. I'm looking forward to having some zellie (have you heard of this?), or pickled cabbage, at my family's traditional bohemian New Year's Day meal in a few weeks. Mmmm.
i've never heard of zellie; what is it? you can order pierogies from the pierogi palace at the west side market; they deliver "outside of cuyahoga county" but they don't accept credit cards, unfortunately.
Zellie is another name for pickled red cabbage: http://www.germanfoods.org/consumer/RedCabbage.cfm
It sounds a lot more disgusting than it actually is...not bad at all.
And I love that you can order pierogies online (kinda)!!!!! Thanks for letting me know!
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