Irish Mashed Potatoes – Colcannon is the perfect side dish for your Saint Patrick’s Day Supper. It goes well with Bangers and Mash, Corned Beef, Pot Roast, or even Irish Stew. Creamy Mashed Yukon Gold Potatoes mixed with bacon, braised cabbage, and lots of butter.
This German Cabbage with Bacon recipe is a tangy, delicious side dish to serve your family, especially good with a pork or corned beef dinner. Filled with cabbage, onion, bell peppers, and bacon, it’s perfect for your next Oktoberfest celebration!
Creamy Cabbage and Bratwurst Soup is a delicious light soup to serve on a cool evening. Seasoned with celery, carrots, onions, and chunks for bratwurst, it’s sure to please anyone who enjoys cabbage.
I like to serve this soup with a hard crusty sourdough bread, but you could also use saltine crackers. See my Sourdough Recipes Here.
Gather all your ingredients so that you have everything close at hand on the counter or table. Prepare your ingredients.
Using a sharp knife and cutting board, slice the bratwurst. On a second cutting board mince the sweet onion and garlic. Thinly slice the celery and carrot.
Chop the cabbage. Dice the Russet potato. Chop the fresh parsley and chives.
You may opt to use a food processor to slice and chop the vegetables, if desired.
Heat the extra-virgin olive oil and butter in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Cook the sausage until browned, approximately 10 minutes.
Add in the minced sweet onion, sliced celery and carrots, and minced garlic. Saute for 5-7 minutes until tender.
Stir in the chopped cabbage and diced potatoes. Add the chicken stock. Season with dried thyme, kosher salt, and freshly ground black pepper. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 12-15 minutes.
In a small bowl whisk together the whole milk and all-purpose flour for a thickening agent.
When the cabbage and potatoes are tender, add the Half and Half cream to the soup. Stir in the thickening mixture. Allow to simmer for 7-10 minutes, stirring until thickened.
Remove from heat and garnish with chopped fresh parsley and/or chives.
This recipe will serve 6-8 people. Serve with a hard, crusty bread such as my Tangy Sourdough Bread or Rustic Sourdough Baguettes. Or even Sourdough Rye Bread.
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Do you have a bit of Irish blood in you? Here are a few Saint Patrick’s Day Recipes you might try to celebrate the Irish. Corned Beef, Cabbage, Potatoes, Cobblers, and anything Green. Both sides of our families have delved into genealogical records enough to …
Slow-Cooked Corned Beef with Cabbage is an easy meal to serve your family for St. Patrick’s Day. This recipe cooks all day long and has only 5 ingredients. Simple, simple, simple. Place it in your crockpot or slow cooker in the morning and forget about …
Making your own Egg Rolls calls for a bit of work, but it is well worth the effort. My family loves them–even more than those at restaurants. These little gems are filled with sausage and well seasoned vegetables, and are then fried in deep fat for a crispy brown shell. So yummy!
I like to make these appetizers ahead of time, hours or days before my dinner, even. I make them up and freeze them on a baking sheet covered with waxed paper. Once they’re frozen, you may place them in a freezer bag until you’re ready to use them, up to 6 weeks. This makes preparation so much easier.
Especially if you’re like me and want to serve your family a big Chinese Dinner. I’ve mentioned on here before about my themed dinners, where I serve my entire family a four or five course meal. Freezing your rolls ahead of time does wonders for the last-minute work ahead of you. I do the same for Crab Rangoon.
In large skillet, brown sausage until fully cooked.
I like to use Oldham’s Country Sausage (16 grams of fat) or even better, Williams Country Sausage (11 grams of fat) when I can find it. Both of these brands cook up wonderfully with so little fat it doesn’t even need drained.
Shred cabbage and carrots with a food processor or box grater. Dice and chop bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and mushrooms.
Add cabbage and carrots to the cooked sausage. Saute until cabbage is tender. Add bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, mushrooms, garlic, dry sherry, soy sauce, salt, sugar, ginger, and pepper. Cook for 5-10 minutes. Allow to cool for at least 20 minutes.
Even better, refrigerate the filling for several hours or even overnight. This helps when making the rolls. Using hot ingredients tends to make the wrappers tear. Ask me how I know!
In a small bowl, stir together the cornstarch and water to use as a sealant.
To prepare egg rolls, add about 3 tablespoons filling to each egg roll wrap.
Coat edges of wrap with cornstarch mixture and roll halfway, from corner to corner.
I like to smear a little water and cornstarch along the edges of the wrapper to help hold things in when they are cooking.
Fold over sides, being careful not to create any gaping holes for the filling to fall out. Continue rolling to seal the top edge. The tighter you roll, the better. Repeat until filling is gone. You may freeze extra filling, if you have any.
To cook, you may either deep fry egg rolls for 3-4 minutes, or bake on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat in a 400 degree oven. Lightly coat each roll with a little oil. Bake for 20-30 minutes until golden brown.
Serve Egg Rolls with sweet and sour sauce, plum sauce, or hot mustard. This recipe pairs perfectly with Egg Drop Soup, Crab Rangoon, Fried Rice, or any of your favorite stir-fry recipes.
This recipe makes about 31 rolls and will serve 8-10 people.
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Being Lutheran with German heritage on both sides of my husband’s family, we enjoy lots of German food. Which means, we eat a lot of cabbage and sausage! Every year, our church holds a celebration of food for Oktoberfest – German Food Recipes.
Hamburger Cabbage Skillet is an easy, one-pot dish to serve your family on a busy weeknight or when you just don’t feel like doing much in the kitchen. My family loves German and Irish food, and they love cabbage. Sweet cabbage. Stuffed cabbage. Cabbage in …
This Cabbage Bacon Salad is a recipe I really enjoy. Crunchy, sweet, with the added saltiness of smoked bacon. Yum! Continue reading Cabbage Bacon Salad
Here’s a yummy soup recipe when you’d like something with an Italian flare. As some folks say, this Classic Minestrone Soup has everything in it except for the kitchen sink!
