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How To Shred A Cabbage
No for real
I have made it to the ripe old age of *mumble* without ever knowing how to shred a cabbage. I grew up in a Polish home, and we used our cabbage leaves whole and it was all about protecting the leaves for the golabki. I can roll a cooked cabbage leaf like no other!
However, tonights NYE menu is Chinese inspired. Bit misses out on fast food, or food of other cultures. So I figured new year, new holiday traditions, so we are going to attempt this. Tonight I am working on chicken fried rice, and eggrolls.
I got the steps to make the egg rolls down, how to role and seal and fry, how to make the wrappers thin enough, all that. Fried rice, in theory no problem, I own a wok, I possess a recipe and I am a pro at dicing veggies. We’re subbing broccoli for peas because she is allergic.
However, as I am working in the kitchen shredding the carrots I came to be staring at this head of cabbage going…what in HECK do I do with you? How do I get nice even thin stringy pieces? The cabbage is going to be my undoing of this whole thing, I can feel it.
Then I realize it is 2019, I possess the power of google and wikihow. So off I go to my laptop (I prefer the larger screen when learning!) only to find the cat on the floor mid chomp on a carrot piece I seem to have dropped. When she realized it was VEGETABLE and not SNACK she ran away with a quickness leaving the orange offender behind.
I am now armed with the best the internet can offer, and am heading off to tackle my cabbage. I may…or may not report back about the egg roll success or failure, it depends how funny it ends up being.
