I’ve always loved stuffed cabbage, especially my mother’s recipe, though I haven’t had it in many decades. Hers was stuffed with a mixture of ground beef, rice, brown sugar, onion, some other ingredients and seasoning, and cooked in a tomato-based sauce.
Last week I saw cans of imported stuffed cabbage in the store, and bought a can, without reading the label. It turned out to be little tubes of some unidentifiable substance surrounded by vaguely cabbage-like leaves in some kind of tasteless oil. Stuffed cabbage in name only.
Anyone else ever buy this crap, and what did you think of it?
I love stuffed cabbage, too, but it is labor-intensive, especially for a household of one.
TIP: Costco has EXCELLENT stuffed cabbage in their refrigerator section (not frozen). There are four humongous cabbage rolls in yummy tomato sauce. Gitchyseff some.
There is pretty good frozen stuffed cabbage, like Stouffer’s. I haven’t had it in ages. My aunt used to make the galumpki in a big pan for weddings and such, but everyone is dead and/or gone now. I made an unstuffed cabbage casserole once, pretty darn good, though I hear endless complaints about ‘smelling up the house’. We have quite an Eastern European population here and there are a few restaurants and stores where stuffed cabbage can be purchased.
