Bacon and Cabbage

[nifan]

cabbage is rotten

[An Fear Rua]

One of the many things I miss about home is good spuds. They are poor over here. Oh for a big plate of records covered in butter.

Have to agree with the initial post re pint of ice cold full cream milk.

[Longshanks]

Jasis lads I think I now know what I'm having for dinner tonight (the chicken Kiev can go in the freezer)

[Hardy]

Mustard? Certainly. Where I come from, anyway. A little dollop on the side of the plate and dip the edge of your forkful of bacon into it for just a touch of piquancy. Now drowning it in brown sauce - why would you do that and how would you taste anything but brown sauce?

I hope I'm not getting too nouvelle cuisine here, but as an alternative to boiling the bacon/ham, coat it with honey and bake it in the oven. Mmmmmm.

[Bogball XV]

Little wonder this nation is now officially the most obese (or is that obesist) in the world.

Yeah?  They're always telling us that we're the fattest too, I wouldn't believe a word of it.

As for bacon and cabbage, rotten.

[An Fear Rua]

Mustard? Certainly. Where I come from, anyway. A little dollop on the side of the plate and dip the edge of your forkful of bacon into it for just a touch of piquancy. Now drowning it in brown sauce - why would you do that and how would you taste anything but brown sauce?

I hope I'm not getting too nouvelle cuisine here, but as an alternative to boiling the bacon/ham, coat it with honey and bake it in the oven. Mmmmmm.

I double cook it, but only boil if its to be served with spuds and cabbage

Step 1  boil the bacon in a large pan with celery,carrot, challotts (whole) a few bay leaves and some black peppercorns
Step 2 remove from water, peel off the skin, score the fat and stud with cloves and bung in the oven
Step 3 About 15 mins before end of cooking apply a mix of honey with a wee touch of mustard and baste regularly
Step 4 ate the f**ker, yum!!

You can actually replace the honey with coke, add the tin of coke about 20 mins before end of cooking and baste regularly


Another thing you can do is creamed cabbage, its rather unhealthy but tastes great

[Tony Baloney]

Mustard? Certainly. Where I come from, anyway. A little dollop on the side of the plate and dip the edge of your forkful of bacon into it for just a touch of piquancy. Now drowning it in brown sauce - why would you do that and how would you taste anything but brown sauce?

Leave the mustard to the English and French. HP is the daddy.

Bacon or ham joint double-boiled and roasted in the oven with honey and brown sugar! Mmmmm. Never been a fan of the old ham with mustard/clove combination and have yet to get a decent slice of ham at a carvery - always too salty. Mustn't double boil it.

[red hander]

Fond of the oul cabbage but mashed carrots and parsnips are hard to bate

[The Iceman]

ahhhh tormenting me here!

Cabbage dressed on the pan with a bit of onion, bacon and spuds and butter

have to agree its hard to get good spuds over here - I'm contemplating growing my own in a bucket or two outside - think it will be a disaster but its worth a shot

i could murder a big plate of chips and a mince pie with red sauce about now too!

[Mayo4Sam]

nothing like turnips for the winter when the cabbage is out season, mashed in with the spuds with pepper

[Niall Quinn]

Broccoli is for dining out occasions when bacon becomes ham and prices become astronomical.

Did you know Broccoli is an engineered vegetable which was introduced to North America by the family of 'Cubby' Broccoli, producer of the James Bond movies?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_R._Broccoli

So Tony Wilson said in '24 Hour Party People'.