Green cabbage and some wandering!!

Kotaimas!

Last night was great to say the least. However, today since morning I have been feeling sick because of gluttony. Once every week, group of friends and I have cooking night where we each one of us cook one dish using one chosen ingredients. So last night we had another of the cooking night with cabbage as the secret ingredients. Talk of cabbage and what I think of is green and healthy vegetable. So the question is- was it the gluttony or was it the richness of food that made me feel sick. To be frank, the reason was more of latter and a bit of former. Some of the dishes that my friends prepared were cabbage pie with layers of mushroom, cream cheese and boiled eggs, chicken and shrimp with cabbage and corn and finally cabbage stew with buffalo and egg-plant sauce. At first I was thinking of making cabbage and potato curry. But I have made that number of times previously and as a part of trying something new I decided to try my hand at "cabbage pizza".

Following the philosophy of Penny's dad which goes something like, every unhealthy ingredient in food can be balanced by something else. So rather than avoiding the unhealthy food, which is very hard for most of us as they are so tasty, it would be better to balance it with some healthy food. And cabbage pizza aptly fulfills the philosophy. Cheese balanced by green healthy nature of cabbage. Its a very simple recipe however the only tough part is rolling the dough to get appropriate shape and size. But if you are expert at making dough and rolling then this recipe is like cake walk.

Recipe:


Ingredients:

1. 2-3 cups regular flour

2. 2-3 tablespoon oil

3. 3-4 tablespoon of butter

4. 1/4 lb mushroom

5. 1 red bell pepper

6. 2 green chilies

7. 10-12 fresh basil leaves

8. Salt and black pepper to taste

9. 1 whole cabbage (~1/2 lb)

10. 1 teaspoon of baking powder

Chop all the vegetables (cabbage, mushroom, red pepper, green chilies, basil). Add 2 tablespoon oil and baking powder to flour and mix it well. Now add water to it and make a soft and bit sticky dough. Let it sit at room temperature for an hour. In the meantime, in a hot pan with 1-2 tablespoon of butter, add flour and cook till its brown. Add appropriate amount of milk to it and cook it well so that it forms a thick creamy paste. Set it aside. In a separate skillet, saute mushroom, cabbage, pepper and season them. Add the prepared creamy paste to it and mix well. Now roll the dough, spread it on a baking pan covered with buttered foil. Spread the vegetable mix on top of the dough. Add green chilies and basil followed by Parmesan cheese. Bake it in oven at 500 degrees for 8-10 minutes. Cabbage pizza done!

To tell you the truth, the pizza was gone in minutes, not only because it was tasty but more so because we all were starving. Anyways it was a lot of fun cooking together followed by some interesting talk about plans to scare people.  

I have been reading Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger (famous for Catcher in the Rye) and only been through first few pages.So far its been an interesting read and very different read compared to Catcher in the Rye. Project "Music Discovery" is still on. I have been compiling list of some of the songs on Grooveshark. I will discuss the playlist in the next post.

Till then 

Jan ne!!