For all those suffering in the heatWhen it is hot, NO ONE wants to cook really. Just thinking of the hot stove, the hot food, the hot - EVERYTHING is just exhausting and enough to make one break out in a hot sweat. When I first got married, I had the opportunity to live in Hong Kong, and I remember just DYING in the heat. I cooked in the TINIEST of kitchens - one where I literally could stand in one spot in the center of the kitchen and reach the sink, the stove and oven, and the refrigerator without moving my feet. This kitchen had one small window, no air-conditioning, and a door to separate you from the rest of the house (and the air-conditioning.) 6 months out of the year it was pretty awful and 3 months of the year it was almost unbearable. I would walk in, start cooking, walk out fully drenched in sweat and would have to lie on the marble floor of the bathroom to cool down. But I was a newlywed and had it in my mind that my job, my duty, my calling, was to prepare delicious dinners for my husband and me and I did it, in that sweltering, hot, miserbly muggy, miniscule kitchen day after day. (I wish I had a picture of it somewhere.)
I wish I had created this cabbage slaw back then - if only to cook one less thing on the stove and to have the crisp, refreshing coolness of this salad while lying on the marble bathroom floor. The combination sounds sooo cool and refreshing. (bathroom floor and cabbage slaw) I had originally come up with this idea for the Korean tacos, but it is so great that I thought it deserved its own post and own different menu ideas. It pairs excellently with:
Bulgogi
Korean Marinade Flank steak
Ginger Soy Chicken
Ginger Garlic Honey Wings
Mochi Beef
Ginger Garlic Chicken with Honey Drizzle
Ultimate BBQ Ribs
You only need to add your rice on the side and you're all set for your meal.
Ginger Cabbage Slaw
6 cups of cabbage, shredded. (about 1/2 a head of a good sized cabbage)
1/2 cup of red onion, thinly sliced
1/2 cup of scallions chopped
Dressing
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
Pepper to taste
Whisk ingredients of dressing all together. Place the cabbage, onions and scallions in a bowl. 15 minutes before serving, pour dressing over salad and toss.\
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my husband LOVED this!!!
in fact, he went atkins style, and just piled the meat on to a pile of slaw....
thanks for sharing :)
Hi - Sujin Park sent me a link to your blog. Great food! My husband and I are loving your recipes, and I am modifying them for my son who has alleriges and used to have an autism diagnosis too...but we are healing all of that with diet. I noticed that your son has allergies, and I just thought you should know they can be healed, through of all things COOKING...so it is right up your alley. My son had so many allergies and such severe ones,,,dairy, wheat, egg, soy etc that the allergies created food sensitivities, which are similar to allergies, but less severe - you get mood swings and neuroi presentations instead of rashes and physical ones...he was even allergic to spec ingredients in his vaccines so we lost him right after the MMR and wound up with a autism label and TERRIBLE gut issues. We found a diet online, GAPS diet...gut and psychology syndrome...the book is a simple read and very thin tome on WHY some of our kids have all the allergies and our other kids don;t and how those allergies are linked to everything from bi polar, to schizophrenia, to learning disabilities, to arthritic pain (started eating GAPS/SCD foods and ALL my wrist pain and aches and pains went away. I also got pregnant immediately, with no problems whatsoever, even at 40, and will deliver a girl next week with ZERO fears of autism or food allergies...bc I understand the gut flora/probiotics link now and what happened to my son. Yo udon;t have to give up chopping and you definitely DO NOT have to settle for all your son's allergies...the doctor who wrote GAPS is a neurologist, neurosurgeon, MD, with a degree in nutrition and also a mom who recovered her own son from severe food and environmental allergies as well as autism...with food and probiotics. It takes two years where there is a severe neuro presentation, less time if you are only battling allergies...check out the food blog CHEESESLAVE. She did Gaps for about a year and a half and put her dd on it..they can eat anything now...saw the dd last week at the farmers market in LA munching on raw oysters! IT comes down to bone broths, dense nutrition, lots of FAT, and fermented foods...perfect meal would be this Korean bone broth soup that I cannot pronounce - just a few oz - it is like oxtail or bone soup from shanks...but with a raw egg yolk stirred in and a bit of raw kimchee juice or saurkraut juice for flave but also to stimulate proper digestion, restore proper hydrochloric acid production in the GI, then a meal of something like bulgogi or other meat entree, and kimchee...fermented foods with all meals and snacks. Traditional Korean Food is VERY GAPS diet/SCD diet actually. The "hardest part" of the protocol is pulling all fruit, sugars, starches, and carbs that are not veggies for 8 weeks to give the GI time to heal and for all allergies to disappear or to be heal systematically through the soup...we healed Matt's egg allergy by dipping a knifeinto a raw egg yolk and dipping that into his soup...three days later..dipped it twice...then eventually and 1/8th tsp of yolk...then a whole yolk...then a yolk into each serving/few oz of soup at each MEAL...so three egg yolks a day and ALL that biotin, lecithin, and b vits!!! We have not healed whites yet bc my ds will not eat egg drop soup and the procedure is basically the same, only incorporating tiny bits of white...and building up until there is NO sign of allergic response to eggs...then you start again with tiny amounts into the child instead of into the soup...the diet has been miraculous for us...call me anytime if you have spec questions. GAPS website, Gapsguide.com, and Cheeseslave are really informative and good blog info resources. Good luck and keep up the great blog. Love, Diane Early mum to Terra, Matt, Emma, and baby Kate on the way. 805-907-8170
Diatplay - thanks for the very interesting information. I am all about healing my son through food - and have restricted his diet in an effort to help him get better. He still cannot tolerate eggs but the whole gradually introducing it into his system process really interests me. Thanks for the key detailed post and I am going to look into it. I'm glad you can find some things (even if you have to modify) that my work for your family....
My husband loves this cabbage slaw. Thank you! I made it tonight for dinner with your soy braised ginger chicken recipe. My 1 year old and 4 year old loved the chicken. :P I am so stuffed right now but I want to eat more. ^_^
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