cabbage

[adrian_turtle]

A local friend keeps recommending cooking videos. I like the ones where the spatulas and so forth are slightly anthropomorphized, but not fully so. And where things look like they should be fairly simple and easy because there aren't a lot of tools or space involved (even if they don't happen to be quite the tools or space I have.)

This is a recipe for a cabbage pancake impersonating pizza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVSLEnBuqK8
As I don't eat cheese, I'm never going to make it. But I do like cabbage, and I have never been able to produce shredded cabbage anything like that easily. With a vegetable peeler? Really? Is it the vegetable peeler that's magic, or did they speed up the video or is it just one of those things that only looks easy if you've done it ten million times?

They also rinse the shredded cabbage in several changes of water, and dry it before sauteeing. Do any of you know if this is to remove bugs? Dirt? Salmonella? I thought it was sufficient to wash the outer leaves, but I may be living dangerously in these parlous times. Does it improve the texture?

Comments

[adrian_turtle]

My constraints are different from yours, but they are about to change. (The new apartment has a dishwasher, and will have 4 other hands. Some of which work.) Of course, the menu planning constraints are going to change as well. Many of my meals involve mushrooms or cooked greens or (at least a little) cayenne. And many of theirs involve dairy or pork or shellfish. We really value shared meals, though.

[evalerie]

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