on Mondays at school we have chicken with rice and cabbage. The kitchen serves all 800+ kids and about 100 adults _every day_ and somehow the chicken is moist and the rice is not mushy and the cabbage is delicious. I've tried doing it at home but I can't crack the secret... I think it's the emulsion that forms when the cooking water mixes with the (probably horrifying amounts of) oil/ margarine. I don't know. But it's silky and has just enough bite and is so so umami. Probably aromat also.
Oh wow this sounds so good. Maybe they're cooking the cabbage in a bit of chicken stock with the oil/margarine/butter? School kitchens get a bad wrap, yes most of the food is often not the best but then you get one dish that's so memorable. I remember the best bobotie ever was from the kitchen aunties at hostel.
As always, such an enjoyable read Robyn. Cabbage is indeed so underrated and your comment about it being what you expect of lettuce made me laugh - ditto!
Onto Brussels sprouts next, like little mini cabbages with a most undeserved bad rap!
loved this post!! the meditation on the cabbage was so interesting, and i appreciated the last 3 paragraphs so much especially 🍉 thanks for writing it!!
on Mondays at school we have chicken with rice and cabbage. The kitchen serves all 800+ kids and about 100 adults _every day_ and somehow the chicken is moist and the rice is not mushy and the cabbage is delicious. I've tried doing it at home but I can't crack the secret... I think it's the emulsion that forms when the cooking water mixes with the (probably horrifying amounts of) oil/ margarine. I don't know. But it's silky and has just enough bite and is so so umami. Probably aromat also.
Oh wow this sounds so good. Maybe they're cooking the cabbage in a bit of chicken stock with the oil/margarine/butter? School kitchens get a bad wrap, yes most of the food is often not the best but then you get one dish that's so memorable. I remember the best bobotie ever was from the kitchen aunties at hostel.
As always, such an enjoyable read Robyn. Cabbage is indeed so underrated and your comment about it being what you expect of lettuce made me laugh - ditto!
Onto Brussels sprouts next, like little mini cabbages with a most undeserved bad rap!
loved this post!! the meditation on the cabbage was so interesting, and i appreciated the last 3 paragraphs so much especially 🍉 thanks for writing it!!