Recipe: Fried Cabbage and Sausage

[digitS']

I'm going real radical ... and, answering your question here about when to toss the sliced radishes into the stir-fry, So Lucky (another thread).

I'm gonna forget the butter and go with @rainey 's Italian sausage, the spicy version . (Johnsonville isn't okay, @flowerbug ?)

For cabbage, I'm substituting Portuguese kale (or, any kind of kale). Instead of diced tomatoes, I'm going with diced potatoes (or, white beans).

And finally, I will dump a quart or two of beef broth in there! Yep, I've made Portuguese kale soup .

Oh, and those slices of radish for a stir-fry: I don't fry anything except the garlic, onions and meat for very long. The radishes will go in with their separated tops and the chopped bok choy, choy sum, broccoli raab and/or whatever .

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

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(Johnsonville isn't okay, @flowerbug ?)

it's ok, but it isn't what i'm looking for. some Italian recipe and someone knows it up in the western UP of MI, but i haven't found it yet on-line or in my own experiments trying to make it. it has a lot of garlic in it and some other things which may be extracts or liquors. perhaps it may even be a specific brand of liquor i've not found yet. when i travel up that ways i keep hoping to find someone who knows.

most store brand sausages are way too wimpy for me. one local brand of Polish sausage i do like is from Bay City, MI Krysiak's House, is good. i don't like it cooked nearly as much as right from the package.

the other recipe i tried to get decent was gyros, but with lamb being so expensive i don't do that very often any more.

 

[digitS']

I should travel the country to get an understanding of Portuguese kale soup . At first, I used a smoked sausage. It was okay. I'm also okay with experimenting with different kales and different starches added.

Where I lived for a time on the California coast, there were Portuguese American fishermen. I don't remember any sausages! I did learn to eat Martha Washington clams . Probably un-American but that led me to little neck and razor clams and oysters .

Meanwhile, the Italian dairy farmers were making cheese! And bread! ... oh, I guess those were the bakers.

Steve, in a wonderful world

 

[Nyboy]

sausage and about anything is so good. love cabbage too.

since you come from Italian family are you familiar with the sweet italian sausage that has annise/annisette/anise seeds in it? i've been trying to find a version like i had up north and nobodies recipe comes close for some reason and i can't figure out what i'm not getting right (since all store bought sausage i've tried doesn't come close either).

unfortunately the place where i used to get this on pizzas burned down many years ago and since it was rebuilt the food is all different.

Every sweet Italian sausage here has anise seeds.

 

[flowerbug]

Every sweet Italian sausage here has anise seeds.

yes, thanks, that does seem common ingredient, but the sausage i am thinking goes beyond that somehow and i've never been able to figure it out - at least not yet...

been trying to figure this out for years. next time i get back up north i'm going to stop in several places and keep asking around some more up there it just may be a family recipe that never got out of that restaurant or that area. if it weren't an 8hr drive to get there i'd have made more progress.

 

[majorcatfish]

Andouille sausage is very good in it... and for you east coast yankees ring baloney ...good stuff

 

[majorcatfish]

Getting a big storm tomorrow . I might try and make this, I love anything with cabbage

note : remove shoes from oven before using stove..........

 

[HmooseK]

Another vote for Andouille.

Rabbit, Andouille, and Okra Gumbo.

 

[RUNuts]

While I had andouille and enjoyed it, I looked it up because of the experience. Ring baloney is a good term. Again, not my favorite parts to eat. A good smoked sausage is wonderful for flavor.

A little bit of pig grease goes a long way to improve flavor. A good rue made with sausage grease, already highly seasoned, is a delight. Cooked all day long. I'll try the rabbit, but duck and sausage gumbo is delectable, delightful and delicious.

bon appetit!

 

[flowerbug]

...hungry...