From My Kitchen to Yours .....
Guess what’s hitting my kitchen tonight? Southern Fried Cabbage – and trust me, it’s a game-changer! Picture this: cabbage sautéed to perfection with onions, garlic, and a sprinkle of seasoning, giving it that Southern flair. What’s the secret? Slow-cooking magic! Let those flavors dance together, …
Broccolini or baby broccoli is a green vegetable similar to broccoli but with smaller florets and longer, thin stalks. It is a hybrid of broccoli and gai lan, both cultivar groups of Brassica oleracea. Broccolini does not take long to fix. I stirfry then steam for a couple of minutes.
A Lucky Tradition Spreads. No one knows for sure exactly when this happened, but the various ingredients blended to create a new New Year’s Day tradition in Southern kitchens. Perhaps enslaved African American cooks in plantation kitchens came up with the idea of substituting the dark “eyes” of the black-eyed peas for the first footer visitor after hearing about the tradition. European slaveholders, including those of English and Irish heritage, may have had the same idea after noticing how the enslaved held field peas in high esteem. Another possibility is that Sephardic Jews who came to the South, especially those with a connection to Syria, inspired others to copy their custom of eating black-eyed peas for good luck on Rosh Hashanah, their New Year’s Day. In any case, a new and enduring tradition was born.
Curry Cauliflower a different way. Very tasty a recipe from Ottolenghi’s recipe book simple.
Below is the recipe the way my mother used to make Zuurkool with stoofpeertjes. We, the children refused to eat Zuurkool without something sweet. So my mother added the stoofpeertjes. I do see on the internet, that we were not the only ones adding something sweet to the Zuurkool, like apple or pineapple.