With Tassleberry Farm's Vinegars,
Cabbage a Key to Your Good Health
Cabbage a Key to Your Good Health
Perhaps Mother Nature's greatest gift, cabbage is a taste one must acquire. It's also a vegetable with properties one's health requires.
"Wild" cabbage has been found in cooking pots and on plates across the globe and throughout recorded history. With over 100 of varieties, from the Italian Savoy to Asian Bok Choi, it was a dietary staple of the ancient Egyptians, Celts, Chinese and Hindus, among others.
Cabbage was finally domesticated and first harvested from Eastern European and Russian gardens right around the first millennium.
Cabbage has been celebrated medicinally since the heyday of the Greeks and Romans and today is considered one of the healthiest foods one can consume, according to doctors and natural food experts.
To borrow from the well-worn maxim, this vegetable is both "an ounce of prevention" and "a pound of cure." Chock full of antioxidants, vitamins (A, C and K) and necessary minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium), cabbage has been proven to possess properties both antibacterial and antiviral.
Cabbage has been celebrated medicinally since the heyday of the Greeks and Romans and today is considered one of the healthiest foods one can consume, according to doctors and natural food experts.
To borrow from the well-worn maxim, this vegetable is both "an ounce of prevention" and "a pound of cure." Chock full of antioxidants, vitamins (A, C and K) and necessary minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium), cabbage has been proven to possess properties both antibacterial and antiviral.
A certified ally in the fight versus obesity, cabbage contains acids which inhibit sugar and carbohydrates from converting into fat and is a key agent for digestive health and regularity. Substitute one meal a day with a chopped cabbage salad with vinegar, experts say, and easily shed excess pounds.
It's good for your eyes, good for your bones and your belly - inside and out, as well as your heart and your lungs. It's good for you. Period. Raw cabbage can cure headaches. It even fights allergies.
Consumed uncooked, it's filled with glutamine, a basic amino acid your body produces but can always use more of. Glutamine is a powerful wellspring of energy and an agent for healing, fighting stress and inflammations, especially around joints. Cabbage is a vegetarian option for glutamine, as it is largely found in meats, poultry and cheeses.
Cabbage is a "healthy" carbohydrate, a source of protein and necessary natural sodium. It contains a negligible amount of fats and has zero cholesterol.
It's good for your eyes, good for your bones and your belly - inside and out, as well as your heart and your lungs. It's good for you. Period. Raw cabbage can cure headaches. It even fights allergies.
Consumed uncooked, it's filled with glutamine, a basic amino acid your body produces but can always use more of. Glutamine is a powerful wellspring of energy and an agent for healing, fighting stress and inflammations, especially around joints. Cabbage is a vegetarian option for glutamine, as it is largely found in meats, poultry and cheeses.
Cabbage is a "healthy" carbohydrate, a source of protein and necessary natural sodium. It contains a negligible amount of fats and has zero cholesterol.
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With Mardi Gras and St. Patrick's Day and then Cinco de Mayo just around the corner, pay attention here you revelers: before embarking on a night of drinking, the Egyptians and Romans ate chopped cabbage with vinegar to prevent hangovers and today it remains one of its best remedies. The Romans, lovers of the grape, ate cabbage raw with vinegar before and after each meal. Herbal healers today still espouse that practice.
Vinegar is also very good for you, albeit in moderate amounts. Vinegar interacts with cabbage at various digestive junctions, smoothing absorption of its nutrients like calcium, magnesium and Vitamin C. Vinegar itself will kill harmful stomach bacterias and can control blood sugar and insulin levels if consumed after a carbohydrate-rich meal. Hence the long-held Mediterranean custom of finishing a meal with leafy salads, increasing your sense of fullness, thus inhibiting late-night snack binges. Yes, vinegar is an another agent of good health, just don't overdo it (no chugging!).
It's ideal that cabbage and vinegar found each other so long ago, forging this healthy partnership. Because, without vinegar, cabbage, one of nature's noblest foods but bland at its very best, might be a taste many would never acquire. That's where Tassleberry Farm comes in...
Thursday, Feb. 17 is World Cabbage Day. Tassleberry Farm invites you to enjoy and celebrate this leafy legacy with its fine assortment of vinegars.
(Recipes below serve 4-6 people; pro-rate ingredients depending on number served.)
Tassleberry Farm's Strawberry
Balsamic Vinegar Cabbage Salad
Balsamic Vinegar Cabbage Salad
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• 5 cups shredded cabbage
• 3 tablespoons Tassleberry Farm Strawberry Balsamic Vinegar
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 3 cups sliced fresh strawberries
Directions
Combine Tassleberry Farm Strawberry Balsamic Vinegar, honey and oil in bowl, whisking to meld
Add cabbage and strawberries. Toss
Refrigerate, then toss again before serving
Optional: garnish top with chopped pecans
Tassleberry Farm's Blueberry
Vinegar Steamed Cabbage
Vinegar Steamed Cabbage
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Ingredients
• 1 medium head of cabbage, shredded
• 1/3 cup Tasslebery Farm's Blueberry Vinegar
• 1 lg. onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 2 tbsp. salt
Directions
Place onion and oil in large saucepan and cook on low heat until mushy
Add cabbage to pan and simmer for 10-12 minutes, adding salt to taste and stirring occasionally
Add sugar and 1/3 cup of Tasslebery Farm Blueberry Vinegar and water.
Cover pan and simmer for 1 hour, adding water as liquid is absorbed by cabbage
• 1 medium head of cabbage, shredded
• 1/3 cup Tasslebery Farm's Blueberry Vinegar
• 1 lg. onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 2 tbsp. salt
Directions
Place onion and oil in large saucepan and cook on low heat until mushy
Add cabbage to pan and simmer for 10-12 minutes, adding salt to taste and stirring occasionally
Add sugar and 1/3 cup of Tasslebery Farm Blueberry Vinegar and water.
Cover pan and simmer for 1 hour, adding water as liquid is absorbed by cabbage
Tasslebery Farm's
Strawberry Cabbage in a Skillet
Strawberry Cabbage in a Skillet
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Ingredients
• 1 medium head cabbage, shredded
• 3 tablespoons Tasslebery Farm's Strawberry Vinegar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1 tablespoon sugar
Directions
Melt butter in large skillet, medium heat
Add cabbage, salt and onion. Cover pan
Simmer for 15 minutes, stirring
Stir in Tasslebery Farm Strawberry Vinegar and sugar
Simmer 5 more minutes or to desired texture
• 3 tablespoons Tasslebery Farm's Strawberry Vinegar
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1 tablespoon sugar
Directions
Melt butter in large skillet, medium heat
Add cabbage, salt and onion. Cover pan
Simmer for 15 minutes, stirring
Stir in Tasslebery Farm Strawberry Vinegar and sugar
Simmer 5 more minutes or to desired texture
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