On Mar 3, 3:00*pm, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> On Mar 3, 1:55*pm, "James Silverton" >
> wrote:
>
> > Hello All!
>
> > I have mentioned that I like this Scottish cabbage-potato dish (the
> > Irish call it Colcannon) before but I was interested to see that Prime
> > Minister Gordon Brown contributed it as his favorite Scottish dish to a
> > cook bookhttp://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/rumbledethumps.htm.
>
> > I also note that there is a Dutch version using sauerkraut.
>
> Eastern Austrians eat a cabbage-noodle dish called Krautfleckerl. A
> small head of cabbage is diced, then chopped onion is sauteed in
> butter with a little sugar added, then the cabbage is added, to sweat
> with salt, caraway, and marjoram. When the cabbage is done, it's
> tossed with wide egg noodles. A traditional Friday night or Lenten
> dish.

This is a Cajun cabbage-potato dish that we served as a lunch
special. It's my very favorite of this kind of dish.
You can make it as "hot" as you like. I got the recipe when I lived
in New Orleans and I couldn't count the times
I've made it.



CAJUN CABBAGE APPLES AND ANDOUILLE

SEASONING MIX
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon white pepper
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon basil
mix well and set aside


CABBAGE, APPLES & ANDOUILLE


4 tablespoons butter
2 cups onon -- julienned
10 cups cabbage -- chopped and packed
1 cup chicken stock
2 large bay leaves
3 cups apples -- unpeeled and juliened (use a
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 pound andouille sausage -- slicked thick

good homemade mashed potatoes.


1. Mix together all ingredients for the seasoning mix and set aside.

2. In a large pot, saute onions in butter about 2 minutes.
3. Add cabbage, 1/2 cup stock, bay leaves and seasoning mix. (more or
less dependingt on how hot you like it.)
Cook 15 minutes till cabbage is tender.
4. Stir in apples and cook 5 minutes.
5. Stir in brown sugar and rest of stock. Cook 10 minutes.
6. Add andouille sausage and cook 10 minutes.

To plate: Put a mound of mashed potatoes in the center of your
plate. Make a well in the mashed potatoes and pile in the cabbage
mixture. Stand back and watch your family or guests take the first
bite!!! Oh, the eyebrows go up and the big smile starts!!

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