I enjoy playing the Lord of the Rings Online game (LOTRO.)
They regularly have Festivals where you can get bonuses.
The current one involves helping a busy shopkeeper by collecting ingredients for customers. (Who knew Middle Earth had personal shoppers?!)
So whilst I’m doing this task, I wondered what Dopers could come up with given the game has the following ingredients:
bacon (or beef)
onions (white or red)
cabbages
cheese (plain or pungent)
apples
bread (white or brown)
You don’t have to use all of these and you can assume salt, pepper and all sorts of herbs are available (thyme, sage, rosemary etc.)
No taters? Who put this grocery list together? Smeagol?
Well… if we don’t have no proper taters, I guess you could take items 1,2,3&5 = Braised Cabbage and items 4 & 6 = Grilled Cheese
But if you turn over a new leaf, and keep it turned, I’ll cook you some taters one of these days;)
Heck yeah, the first 4 ingredients with some added egg noodles, garlic, and black pepper are the components of a Polish dish called balushkis. Classic peasant food.
Toast the bread and cube it, then substitute for the noodles. Have the apples for dessert.
Dice and fry bacon, reserve bacon and keep most of the grease in the pan. Slice up apples, onions and cabbage. Saute in the bacon grease until soft, golden and awesome. Check for seasoning and adjust to taste. Remove from pan, put some more of the bacon grease in the pan and cook the bread in the bacon grease on each side until golden brown and delicious. Put bread on a broiler safe plate. Put onion/apple/cabbage on the toast. Top with cheese (something just slightly sweet and nutty, preferably) and bacon bits and stick it under the broiler for a minute or two to melt and brown the cheese.
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I regularly made a ‘casserole’ type dish from slicing onions, cabbage, bacon and apples, seasoning it with some ground pepper and some italian herb blend seasoning, mixing it all together and baking - you could top with bread crumbs mixed with more pepper, herbs and grated cheese.
Apples, onions, cabbage and pepper is more or less Himmel und Erde if you can add potatoes or turnips. And my nanny Marie used to make blaukraut with finely chopped red cabbage, finely chopped onion, finely chopped apple sauted up in bacon fat with black pepper.
Grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches, with a slaw of shredded cabbage and onion on the side. You can either add diced apples to the slaw, or apple slices to the sandwiches, if you’re so inclined.
I was trying to figure out what this could be, as I’ve never heard of balushki, but I think you’re talking about haluszki (which refers to the noodles itself, and comes from the Czech/Slovak halušky, related to the Hungarian galuska, although I don’t know which derives from which.)
Same stuff, I think, with different spellings and pronunciations. All I know about it is from an episode of* Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives*. The subject restaurant was in Pittsburgh, and they used the B pronunciation.
While reading the OP, I thought of exactly what WhyNot wrote. Especially if no other ingredients aside from seasonings are allowed. If other condiments are allowed, I might do a vinegar cold slaw with the onions, apples, and cabbage, or just add some balsamic vinegar to the saute.
