Daily Archives: January 18, 2010

A few weeks ago J and I made bier rocks (don’t ask) and turned the leftover cabbage mixture into a yummy soup.  I liked it so much I made the soup again this weekend but changed a few of the ingredients based on what vegetables we had.  I can’t decide which version tasted better. What I find more interesting is that I’m even eating cabbage soup.

It’s cabbage soup.  

My mom’s next door neighbor, who actually just passed away earlier this year, used to make it all the time with just a handful of ingredients.  Mom mentioned the soup when we went to see her neighbor in the hospital on Christmas day.  She also talked about how the neighbor was always cooking. I do remember that. I remember having a hankering for herhush puppies, but never the soup.  After all, I was a kid and it was cabbage soup.

I repeat….  cabbage soup.

Meh.

Prior to the mention of the cabbage soup on Christmas Day in the hospital visiting the dying neighbor, my memories of the neighbor probably would have been of her trash collecting husband who shot snakes out of trees with a shotgun, or the unruly granddaughter who visited every summer.  I couldn’t wait for her to arrive and by the time 3 months passed I couldn’t wait for her to leave.  She always got me into so much trouble!

But now, it’s nice to think those memories have been replaced by something much more nourishing and memorable.  Something I like to make and oddly like to eat.

Cabbage Soup.