Sauteed Cabbage with Bacon

This week I have been insanely bored. I am not sure why, just having one of those weeks where I am going stir crazy for no reason…does that ever happen to you? For a couple of days I thought I was going to get to take a last minute cruise up the New England to Canada. We found this amazing deal where for like $200 you could take a 4 day cruise. How awesome is that? I mean, if you go on a normal vacation one night in a hotel will cost you $200, and you have to pay for food! SO I was super stoked thinking I would get a mini cruise vacation. But…that fell through. What was my fallback you ask? I went out and bought a puzzle. You know you are getting older when you see a puzzle as a viable source of entertainment. Oh the summer blues…I wish you would just go away…

When I get the bored blues sometimes I try to shake them by mixing it up in the kitchen. My favorite way to do this is to take a bunch of random ingredients that I don’t have any plans for and see what weird concoction I can make. Now I will admit this is not always a successful endeavor and sometime the things I make are a bit funky…don’t worry, I won’t elaborate on my mishaps in this post…but sometimes I come up with some tasty, if not slightly weird, dishes!

Toady’s dish is one of those success stories. I have had some cabbage sitting in my fridge forever. When I was at the grocery store I was lured by its beautiful puprle color and talked myself into getting it saying that of course I would find some use for it. The problem with impulse shopping like that…is rarely does it ever work out. I don’t usually cook with cabbage. I think I must have some weird bias still leftover from childhood. So the cabbage just sat in my fridge. In addition to my cabbage I also had some leftover bacon. Leftover bacon?!?! how does that happen you ask. I’ll tell you…I had planned on making a big Sunday breakfast, but we forgot that we had a baby shower to go to, so my big cooked breakfast turned into grabbing a piece of fruit as we ran out the door and presto…leftover bacon!

So now I had cabbage and bacon. I though hey…bacon makes everything better. So why not saute some cabbage and bacon together! Brilliant!!! I also threw in some balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper, and much to my surprise it was delicious! I even had my picky taste tester give it a try and he approved as well. He actually liked cabbage!!! I won’t lie I have made this at least three times since and it is delicious every time. Cabbage…I may have misjudged you…