So some of you are not from New Orleans.
So you may think that Mardi Gras is the only time people throw things off of parades.
You would be wrong.
On St. Patricks day it is traditional to throw all the ingredients for Irish cabbage stew off of the floats.
Both Courtney and Jessy were visiting me and we all attended the parade, me teaching them the finer points of begging for worthless throws, Courtney representing the Irish with her red hair and Jessy providing sardonic comic relief.
It is also traditional for girls to kiss the guys marching in the parade in exchange for the beads or small silk flowers they carry.....
So we came home with about a thousands cabbages, two little bags of carrots, no potatoes and plenty of beads and silk flowers.
Once we had put a whole cabbage into the soup it became clear that we needed something to do with the rest of the cabbages.So I found a recipe for cabbage veda. I fussed with it by using regular flour instead of the kind called for, adding in a whole bunch of sweet corn and a bunch of egg to make the whole thing stay together and some zatar and Tony Chacheres for taste. The end result was basically a latke with cabbage instead of potato.
It sounds horrible but it was actually really yummy especially with the sweet corn.
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