Christmas Cabbage

So as you may all remember I started this blog with an image of my trainers and soon conversation about them tailed off. Well in a happy turn of events, the trainers have been worn and used. After an awful week of bus drivers diverting, getting lost, stopping early I finally conceded that it might be time to utilise my legs. So I walked the 2.4 miles from work home, stopping off at Co-op.

On my walk I had a sudden and unexpected craving for sausages and braised cabbage and after all that walking I was hank marvin! Incidentally, whilst I'm on the topic of Co-Op they also had an amazing gluten-free section with a crossed grain on their sausages meaning I didn't have to read the back of the packet!

Anyway back to my dinner. As I carried on my walk back, weighed down by sausages and red cabbage, I suddenly realised I'd never cooked braised cabbage before and that my well thought out plan was actually flawed!

Determined not to be beaten I put my caramelised onion sausages in the oven and set about preparing my cabbage and inventing my very own braised cabbage recipe which went something like this:

1. Hack Cabbage and heat deep saucepan with a little olive oil
2. Add cabbage to pan with a cup of water, quarter of a cup of cider vinegar and a splash of balsamic vinegar.
3. Add a cinnamon stick, bay leaves, sultanas, orange zest and a sprinkle of nutmeg.
4. Leave simmering away and should hopefully be done at the same time as the sausages

What I didn't bargain for is that in that saucepan I had created Christmas, not literally obviously, but the aroma was Christmas.

Dinner served.