Jenny’s Bacon-Wrapped Cabbage

A really sweet gal at work, Jenny, gives me extra produce from time to time that she can’t use, and yesterday she gave me two heads of cabbage, a big bag of sweet potatoes, and a couple of ears of corn-on-the-cob. We really appreciate her generosity and kindness, and I also enjoyed finding out how she likes to eat her cabbage.

She told me she likes to wrap it in bacon and bake it in the oven. I had never heard of making cabbage this way before, but it sounded great and so I decided to try it. It’s really tasty, and I liked it a lot! The bacon gives the cabbage a wonderful flavor. You can eat this as your main course, and while your oven’s on, why not make a fresh loaf of bread to go with it? Anyway, let me show you what it looked like when it came out of the oven before I give you her recipe.

Jenny’s Bacon-Wrapped Cabbage

Ingredients:

• 1 head cabbage
• bacon slices
• 1 small onion
• 2 tbsp. butter
• salt to taste

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Clean the cabbage, and then remove the core.
3. Insert the butter into hole where the core used to be.
4. Sprinkle salt on the inside and outside of the cabbage.
5. Peel the onion and then place it on top of the hole where the core was.
6. Take your raw bacon slices and wrap your cabbage with it. You can wrap it vertically from top to bottom. You can also wrap it both horizontally and vertically. We decided to just wrap ours vertically.
7. Place some aluminum foil in your baking dish.
8. Set the cabbage inside the foil, and then wrap your cabbage with foil.
9. Bake the foil-covered cabbage for 3 hours at 350 degrees.
10. (Optional: At the end of the 3 hours, uncover the cabbage and bake until the bacon becomes crispy.)