We recently visited our daughter in Oregon. She’s a world traveler, and loves all sorts of cuisine. While we were there, she had gotten some cabbage on sale, so several of our meals had cabbage in them.
She’s vegetarian/pescatarian but her fiancé is a meat eater, like us. So she often substituted seafood where we had meat.
One dish was like a Mexican type of chili. https://sunbasket.com/recipe/pinto-bean-and-hominy-pozole-rojo-with-queso-fresco
You can add chicken or pork if you’d like, but we sometimes do a vegetarian meal when we don’t want to feel weighed down. We made a pot of this last night, and it was nearly as great as hers was.
Another that we haven’t made yet is called Okonomiyaki (Japanese cabbage pancakes). They were really great too. Served alongside grilled salmon or grilled skirt steak (teriyaki type marinades). I haven’t made this recipe yet, but will be trying sometime this week. https://recipes.otafukufoods.com/recipe/simple-okonomiyaki-kansai-style/
I grew up eating hominy, fried in the grease leftover from cooking bacon. I’ve wanted to try a hominy pozole.