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After a month of agonizing red tape, I finally have internet in my dar (house)! I'm all set to start exchanging!

I've got two items to post for now:

Cabbage Stew with Lamb














(I always just guess on measurements)

Lamb
Bay
Salt
Pepper
Ginger
Onions
Carrots
Cabbage
Spinache (I had just a couple leaves lying around I wanted to get rid of)
Tomatoes

So this typical of how I have been (or at least should be) eating in the cold. Put stuff together in a pot with water and make it hot.

This was half inspired by my own incompetence, half inspired a recipe. I was at the market and the vender buying from had a cauliflour on display in front of a bunch of cabbage heads. Naturally assuming that the cauliflour was an open sample the other items, I picked up a huge one. I ran home (actually, the cyber at this time) and looked up a recipe for Italian-style caulifour in vinegar. Halfway through preparing the recipe, I turn to clean my cauliflour only to realize that there's no white stuff inside. It was all leaves!

So anyway, I've had cabbage sitting around needing to be used for a week, and I found something approaching this recipe online.

I didn't have any stock and the lamb cut I wasn't great, so I first made a stock with the lamb, boiling it for about an hour. Then I separated the meat from the bone and returned it to the pot with fresh veggies and the cabbage, and simmered it for another hour.

Savory Corn Pancakes














1/2 cup corn flour
1/2 cup normal flour
salt
2 t baking powder
pinch baking soda
1 t salt
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup buttermilk
green onions
green pepper


I know I took this off your list from before, but I think we had the same inspiration (your brunch in Chicago?). I'd be curious to see how you vary the recipe. Mine is a combination of a couple I found online.

The only big problem is that I didn't plan ahead for how I would dress it. I wanted to make something approaching ranch dressing with the butter milk I had left over, but they all called for mayonnaise and/or sour cream, neither of which I had. I ended up making a quick tomato and onion salsa; it's hard to go wrong with tomatoes, salt, and pepper.