Red Potatoes and Cabbage

Taste: Pretty good.

Cleanup: Colander and knife to clean.

Ingredients: All available at Publix

This is a rather long video: Red Potatoes and Cabbage. I'll extract the recipe from it here.

• 1 cup water
• 2 pounds red potatoes
• 4 minutes at high pressure
• drain and put potatoes back in pot
• 1/2 large green cabbage chopped into big chunks
• 1 large white onion chopped into big chunks
• 1 package Field Roast apple/sage vegan sausage, plastic skin removed, sliced into small disks
• everything back in the pot (leave off some cabbage if it is getting too full)
• Add another cup of water
• video says 2 minutes at high pressure, I'm trying 3 because I suspect I like my cabbage cooked a bit more

While the potatoes are cooking, you have just about the exact right amount of time to slice up the other ingredients.

And while the second round of cooking is going on, you have just about the right amount of time to write up this web page :-).

I definitely like the way the cabbage came out, so I'm sticking with 3 minutes for the last round. The sausage is a bit strange, but tastes OK. For some reason it reminds me of pumpernickel bread (so it is a good thing I like pumpernickel bread).

P.S. This turns out to be great for corned beef and cabbage as well. I cooked the corned beef conventionally for a few hours in a big pan on the stove, then sliced it up and mixed corned beef slices in with the cabbage for the last 3 minutes (instead of the vegan sausage). I had enough corned beef for two batches, using half the cabbage in each batch.

This is also perfectly good without the suasage, just the cabbage and taters and onion. You can get small red potatoes that are closer to bite size. I usually only cook them for 2 minutes before adding the cabbage and onion.

A fascinating side effect of cooking cabbage seems to be that the "bloom" in the pot disappears. I've never had the pot shinier than when cooking cabbage.

P.S. If you can find something to keep the potatoes from rolling out of the pot while draining it, you don't need to mess up the colander.

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