>Is it okay to use Napa cabbage

I've never done it and there is only one way to find out!

But, as Herb correctly points out, California cabbage is wimpy, and Napa
cabbage the wimpiest of all.

Just bought some UK King Cabbage. This stuff is so tough, it bites back.
Will start boiling it this morning. Should be done for tomorrow or maybe
Saturday. Sharon will be reminded of my foray into preparing Groaty Pudding
some years ago. It had to cook for about 5 days. But it lasted for months!

-Bob

On 10/11/07, Dianne Ellsworth wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Is it okay to use Napa cabbage for your recipe? I've got some leftover
> and had been contemplating making cole slaw out of it. Your recipe was
> timely. It ain't Mill Valley cabbage, but close enough?
>
> Thx,
>
> Dee
>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: Bob Morgen
> Sent: Oct 10, 2007 3:07 PM
> To: Libby Trudell
> Cc: boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net, Vox <980286c3a15f1c66@moblog.vox.com>,
> Boogs Sack
> Subject: Re: BSMA Kills Devil Hills
>
> If Herb's theory were right, then we would have even finer cole slaw here
> in England. Some of our cabbages are the size of pumpkins. And about as
> tough on the outside.
>
> I will keep my opinion of English cole slaw brief.
>
> Garbage.
>
> Here is my recipe for perfect cole slaw, based on the one I used to make
> at the Wild Mountain Café in Mill Valley during my misspent youth:
>
> Mince an onion to near pureé status. Mix it into a cup of mayo and add a
> tsp of caraway seeds. Grate a carrot into it. Add just enough chopped
> cabbage (color irrelevant) to thin out the mayonnaise to a non-guilt level.
> Let it sit a couple of hours in the fridge. Eat.
>
> The English put cole slaw onto ham sandwiches. Nuff said.
>
> -Bob
>
> On 10/10/07, Libby Trudell wrote:
> >
> > That's one impressive lighthouse. Hope you are bearing up under the
> > heat –
> > we are actually having a light autumnal rain here at the moment.
> >
> > —–Original Message—–
> > From: boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net [mailto: boogkb@tmo.blackberry.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 4:01 PM
> > To: Vox; Boogs Sack
> > Subject: BSMA Kills Devil Hills
> >
> > 9 Oct.
> > Another scorching day with a spectacular ride up pea island and bodie
> > island. Thousands of birds. Welcome center had good scopes.
> >
> > Lunch break in the beach town Nags Head.
> >
> > New record temp. Lucky us.
> >
> >
> > Cole Slaw. There must be a thousand variations on three basic sauces.
> > But
> > why is it that the Slaw is always best in the East?
> >
> > Another fine pound of perfect steamed local shrimp. Sigh.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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