King of Kraut: Bumper Cabbage Crop Fills Sauerkraut Jars

Rapid City Journal ^ | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 | Jomay Steen

[nickcarraway]

Marion Grant and her husband, Charles Szakacs, are both avid gardeners. Szakacs grew a cabbage this season that weighed more than 18 pounds. His garden is on a quarter-acre of his family’s land near Caputa. Szakacs has taken to making sauerkraut with his abundance of cabbage.

[FreedomFerret]

Fire up the grill. This demands brats.

[kingattax]

fill up them cabbage racks

[dfwgator]

Mmmmmmmmmmm Sauerkraut.

[scooter2]

Looks like a great year for corned beef and cabbage. It’ll bring out the Irish in you.

[TSgt]

If you ever get the chance you must visit The Ohio Sauerkraut Festival!

I’m getting hungry just thinking about it and I just ate lunch!

http://www.sauerkrautfestival.com/

[IamConservative]

I began feeling flatulent just reading that.. :)

[JoeProBono]

[dfwgator]

Yep, I’m suddenly getting a craving for some good old Polish Bigos.

[Trod Upon]

We just found a new source of natural gas: Chuck Szakacs.

[ravingnutter]

Gross...my Mom and Sister loved that stuff. I couldn’t get past the obnoxious smell, always had to leave the house.

[Grampa Dave]

‘I began feeling flatulent just reading that.. :)’

“You are not by yourself, Al Gore will be really mad.

There could be a lot of CO2 released in the cooking of the methane producing Kraut!”

[The Great RJ]

Hearty Camping Breakfast: Fry thin sliced raw potatoes (skin on) until lightly browned. Add drained saurkraut and sliced sausages sir fry until cooked through. Add a couple of beaten eggs and stir fry to cook. Great for deer hunting in the Black Hills.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They said South Dakota will help resolve the energy crisis and they were right.

[SLB]

FYI -

[DarthVader]

Now that looks like first class tailgating grub!!

[ReneeLynn]

Pork, potatoes and sauerkraut. Mmmmmm. Those things are way too big for halupkas though. My mom would faint.

[Brookhaven]

How can people take something perfectly wonderful like cabbage and turn it into...SAUERKRAUT? Yuuuucccckkkk.

[llevrok]

Boy, that’s a lot of flatus

[Red_Devil 232]

Pinging y'all!

I thought this might interest a few on the Weekly Gardening thread. Thanks to SLB for the tip.

I do like cabbage but my wife does not like it except in a slaw. Any slaw recipes out there?

I use the smallest head I can get - cut it in quarters slather the sides with butter and salt and pepper and wrap tightly with plastic wrap and microwave 3.5 to 4.0 min. Yum!