Cabbage and potatoes Cheap!

[shortbun]

steam cabbage whole in a large pot-cored and upside down. Make a butter, curry sauce in the microwave-melt butter and stir in curry powder, don't scrimp. Pour the sauce down into the head of cabbage. Split or cut in wedges and eat it. Yummy!

 

[manateesmom]

Colcannon - mixture of mashed potatoes and cabbage with some onions, salt, pepper, maybe garlic (milk and butter to mash the potatoes). I make a lot, then with the leftovers I add shredded cheese and use that mix to make pierogies. If you don't want to make pierogi dough from scratch, you can use wonton/potsticker wrappers. You can make about one billion pierogies and freeze them.

 

[lovemygoofy]

Potato wise I have several bags of potatoes in smaller size bags in my freezer. I parboil or bake batches at a time. Then dice up, some with skin on, in smaller portion bags. I shred up several potatoes and put into bags, and you can freeze mashed potatoes though I just prefer to freeze the boiled potatoes and then throw into a pot with some milk/butter.

As for cabbage, you can shred for eggrolls, stir fry, coleslaw(sweet or spicy), make kraut. We love to mix kraut with our mashed potatoes and serve with kielbasa. I think shredded cabbage is just a great filler in salads, pasta salad, stir fry, and anything else you can think of.

 

[java]

Oh Pierogi! I forgot about the cabbage ones! I think I'll do some cabbage and potato ones this week for a meatless meal day!

And stuffed cabbage although I have never made it before. but at that price I will learn!

 

[Zhoen]

For a good potato recipe that freezes well... Google "Cornish pasties" They are sort of the original hot-pockets (though I prefer them cold.) Basically it's 2 parts diced potatoes to 1 part each diced onions and diced beef (GREAT way to used up the last little bit of leftover roast or whatever) some salt and pepper... mix all that up and seal into pie crusts like pierogies (only bigger... again, about the size of a hot-pocket, but half-moon shaped) then bake.

It's not many ingredients but that's what makes it so good... just simple and honest food. They can be eaten hot out of the oven, chilled (how I prefer them) or frozen and thawed/reheated later.

Some recipes you find may call for parsnips or a mix of potatoes and parsnips... nope, just plain ol' potatoes are best!

 

[NotUrsula]

When I saw the thread title I thought it was going to be about the St. Patrick's Parade in New Orleans. You can't get much cheaper than free, after all.

Just FYI for those who are not aware, it is traditional in New Orleans for parade riders in the Hibernian's Parade St. Patrick's parade to throw cabbages, potatoes and onions to the spectators. If you pick the right spot and are a good catcher, you can easily amass 20 lbs of free veggies that way.

(As it is normally Lent, quite often the onions and potatoes go into a crawfish boil, and the cabbage gets shredded on shrimp or oyster po-boys. )