Cabbage

My cabbage heads are ripening and I am wondering what else I can do with it other than put it in curry. I came up with this today.
Warm up your biggest cast-iron. Hopefully it is well seasoned then you can dry toast the following if not use a bit of oil: (put these in whole) cumin seeds, coriander, mustard seeds, and fennel. once they start to pop add the thinly sliced cabbage. add some red pepper flakes and sesame seeds and seaweed flakes if you have them. This cooks very fast over med, medium high so after the cabbage starts to get soft deglaze with some lemon juice and rice vinegar and turn off the heat to let the flavors set in. Serve with Quiona or Quiona/Millet mixture. I also had kidney beans. yum. yum.

Tom Kha Tofu or Tom Kha het

I have been making Tom Kha (Otherwise know as coconut lemongrass soup, I guess it is a thai day) for a while now. I decided to actually look up the ingredients and found this recipe which is almost exactly like mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_kha_gai

I used agave syrup in place of sugar and no fish sauce. I also made half of the broth out of mostly mushroom stems. After I was done I added some vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, carrots), seaweed, black fungus, tofu or you can add anything else that sounds good.

AmeriKan Peanut Sauce

Although Jack has been doing a lot of experiments lately. I have been told to post something so I am posting my favorite cheater recipe.

Cook some rice noodles. While they are cooking in a sauce pan heat up some coconut milk (or other milk if you have no coconut milk), add some peanut butter and red curry paste. Dump the suace over the noodle and yum! You can also saute some tofu on the side with the curry or add garbanzo beans. For a richer flavor add lemon juice and or rice (or umboshi) vinegar. Cilantro and jalapenos are also yummy. And the Jalapenos are starting to get ripe around here!!!

Maybe some day I will get a real thai peanut sauce from my best friends mom but then if I told you I would probably have to kill you.