A couple of weeks ago I ran into an amazing deal on cabbage
and picked up cabbage heads at a quarter a piece. Yes, that’s a quarter a head
not a quarter a pound. You know me and an amazing deal like that. I picked up
10 heads of cabbage and started looking for what to do with it.
Since I have a long list of Polish ancestors, it wasn’t too
difficult to find plenty of yummy cabbage dishes like halupki and halushki. I’d
also been itching to try my hand at making sauerkraut, but I was content to
wait until the garden produced the 25 pounds I needed.
You can imagine that I made quick work of shredding,
salting, and getting that cabbage ready for fermenting into sauerkraut.
However, I didn’t look very closely at the big picture here. Sauerkraut takes
about 4 weeks to ferment and be ready for canning. I didn’t realize until this
week that canning day was also Thanksgiving dinner prep day. Yeah. That was not
the best laid plan at all.
So, amid pies and potatoes, I canned 7 quarts of sauerkraut,
which, by the way, came out great for my first time! My Babchi would have been
so proud.
You don’t get the recipe today, but you do get to have a
good laugh at my poor planning. On the plus side, we’ll have plenty of yummy
sauerkraut for our New Year’s Day kielbasi and sauerkraut.
Grace and peace be
yours in abundance,
I think it was perfect timing.My MIL makes a casserole by layering sauerkraut with leftover mashed potatos, dotting the top with butter and baking. My family enjoyed it the day after Thanksgivivg, but sadly it was not homemade Kraut. Next Year. I will keep an eye out for you recipe post.
ReplyDeleteI'm not laughing at you, really! I would probably do the same thing! I'm hoping you will someday post your saurkraut recipe as that is on my list of things to try (with a note to self to look at a calendar before I start it).
ReplyDeleteGlad it all worked out though and wishing I could get a taste of it when you open a bottle up!
Andrea in SLC
PS Tried your peach salsa recipe a few months ago, it turned out YUMMY! Thanks for posting all the great info!
I hope you do share your recipe! ;-) I've been wanting to try my hand at homemade sauerkraut too! What an awesome deal on those cabbages!
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