Food Simply Simple

It's late, and it seems impossible that even with spring around the corner, it'll still be months before real local food will arrive in the northeast.  In the meantime, what can anyone do to eat food that isn't boring?  Or processed?

Pasta:  Using whole wheat pasta helps us meet our needs for comfort food without indulging in unnecessary processed white flour.  All white flour is processed.  So we buy whole wheat pasta from Whole Foods or from Bionaturae, a good brand.  Whole Foods has an excellent whole wheat pasta that is half the price of Bionaturae, but bionaturae is easier to locate and is excellent, too. 

Cabbage:  I always thought cabbage was nutrition-free and boring.  I still don't like boiled cabbage or the smell of boiled cabbage.  But stir-fried?  Great.  Saute?  Great.  Just last night we thinly sliced a small head of purple cabbage.  Then we sauted lots of garlic and 2 red onions, thinly sliced, and added the cabbage.  While the pasta water came to a boil, we covered the saute pan with the vegetables and let them juice a bit.  Once we were cooking the pasta in the water, we added some of the pasta water to the vegetables to  make sure the cabbage was actually cooked, but not dead.  We tossed the drained pasta with the cabbage and onions and then topped it with some salty, almost meltable feta cheese.  Yum.

Cabbage and Squash:  We realized while eating dinner last night that we should have added some roasted winter squash chunks to liven up the color, add to the creaminess of the dish, and increase the veggie count.  So that's what we'll do with the leftovers to  make a dinner tonight.  

Cabbage and pasta can make for a healthy, fast, inexpensive, and tasty meal.  If you  need hot sauce, just add the one you like.  We opted for some dried sage.

LinK