FORTY
POUNDS OF CABBAGE
January, 2010
WINDFALL
When our friends
at Eastern
Carolina Organics sent notification that they had some second grade cabbage
for sale, we bought a case for fifteen dollars. And then we got to
work. The first thing we made was cabbage burgers. Next we made sauerkraut.
Which was used later in Reuben sandwiches. There are so many ways to eat
cabbage – all of them delicious. We made cole slaw and Repollo Orientale
which is stir fried cabbage, onions and garlic over noodles.
OKONOMIYAKI
PARTY
By far the best
thing we did with our cabbage bounty was make Japanese pizza with it. Okonomiyaki
means literally “as you like it grilled” and it began as a way to eat
well when food was scarce.
The first thing
Haruka and Jason said when they saw we were buried in cabbage was “Let’s
have an okonomiyaki party!” So they invited us over to experience
this delicious treat. Haruka mixed up a batter and we put shredded
cabbage, onion, chopped carrots and I don’t remember what else into the
batter. They heated up their griddle and ladled the batter out onto
it.
FLIPPING
THE PIZZA
Bob did a nice job
of flipping the pizza/pancake. Half the fun of this food is watching it
cook and observing each other’s flipping techniques. In Japan you can go
to a restaurant and sit at a table with a griddle and make your own okonomiyaki.
TO TOP IT
OFF
When the
Okonomiyaki was nearly finished cooking, we added the okonomiyaki sauce and
mayonnaise, the genuine Japanese Kwepie kind.
MOUTH
WATERING DELICIOUS
It was amazing how
wonderful this tasted! Okonomiyaki is definitely worth making again.
We found a blog with lots of recipes so we can make our own batter and sauce.
Okonomiyaki
Recipe Blog – an ode to okonomiyaki, the Japanese savory pancake
Including a vegan
version of the batter mix:
2 vegetable bouillon
cubes dissolved in 2 cups hot water
1 cup sweet potato
flour
1/4 cup tapioca
flour
1 cup flour (whole
wheat and buckwheat work well)
And Quick Okonomi
Sauce
1 cup of
Worcestershire sauce
1 cup of Ketchup
1/3 cup of honey
1/3 cup of Oyster
sauce*
*vegetarian oyster
sauce using shitake rather than oyster is available
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