Vyxxan's Virtual Venture

I’ve never even heard of Spike Mendelsohn until yesterday. He seemed to be an interesting guy, but he’s a bit heavy handed on the cinnamon. They said something about him being on some cooking show. I don’t know, but I liked the rub ingredients for the pork roast and this slaw, even my version, goes REALLY well with the pork.

And me, well, I never make things exactly like the recipe, anyhow. I use recipes as guides, that’s all. I know what I like and also what ingredients I can find.

So, here is my version of the Red Cabbage Slaw by Spike…

Whisk together in a small bowl until sugar is dissolved:
1 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons ordinary yellow mustard
2 dashes ground cinnamon

Get out your food processor and put in the slicer blade. Or use the grater side, if you want… but I think the slicer side is fine for cabbage. It’s certainly faster than doing it by hand! Process veggies:
1 head of red cabbage, cored, wedged and sliced with food processor
1 whole onion, wedged and then sliced with food processor (peel first, etc, lol!)
2 green apples, cored and either sliced or grated with the food processor. I did both. Like the smaller bits that the grater gave me, but the slicer side was faster.

Stir all the veggies together… toss with hands if need be… until well combined in a very large bowl.

Pour the vinegar mix over the whole thing and toss again. I let it sit for a while, 30 minutes or so before I added:

1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
Salt and pepper to taste

And then we ate some immediately. It was good. After it sat in the fridge for a few hours it wasn’t quite as eye squinting tart from the vinegar as it was early on. More flavor! And a lot more juice.

If you look at the original recipe you will see I left out lots of stuff… raisins and then pickled veggies that can’t be found in local stores here. Fresh mint that would cost more than all the other ingredients at this time of year. And I cut WAY back on the cinnamon. Two teaspoons would have been overpowering in my opinion.

I’m not even curious how it tastes with pickled carrots and daikon and yuck, I don’t want raisins in my slaw! For sure more cinnamon would be too much… a couple dashes and you can still taste it over the other ingredients.

Anyhow, that’s my version. The red cabbage, green apples, and onion make a nice different sort of slaw.

Hugs,
Vyx

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