The biggest cabbage in the world! & Cabbage & Chourizo Soup

On Sunday I went to our favorite local farm to get some goodies and came home with the biggest cabbage I’d ever seen. The nice man at the farm stand saw me ogling it in the field and offered Dave a knife to go cut it down and take it home. (I would never offer Dave a knife. I know what happens. I’ve seen it. I’ve been to the emergency room with him).

When I got home I tried to take a picture of the cabbage next to the dog, next to a six-pack of beer etc. to show just how enormous it was, but they are all very blurry – I apologize.

After taking the pictures for this blog post  - because how could I not write about a cabbage that big – I realized just how big the cabbage was and I seriously started to worry about what I was going to do with all that cabbage. I thought I’d do a take on Portuguese Kale Soup. This is my version of it with Cabbage.

Cabbage & Chourizo Soup

Half a gianormous head of cabbage – - or something more reasonable – shredded.

5 or 6 carrots – chopped

onion – chopped

celery – chopped

4 pieces of chourizo, skin taken off, sliced into little bite-sized discs

Chicken or Vegetable Stock

Water

S&P

Brown the chourizo in a big pot. Add onions, carrots, celery – sweat them out a bit. Add cabbage to pot. Some S&P to taste. Add Stock and water 1:1 to almost cover the cabbage. Simmer until the cabbage wilts down. Serve with a nice crusty bread for dunking.

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