Adventures in cooking: Pink Slaw (sort of salmon colored, really)

[alpharaposa]

Well, I have new kitchen gadgets, so of course I decided to put one of them to use! I got out the food processor to make quick work of a project I'd been meaning to do over Christmas and just never did.

So, I took half a smallish red cabbage and processed that. The food processor is scary fast! I was not prepared for the sheer speed of the slicing and dicing.

I added three carrots and a cucumber, all shredded. All of this was dumped into a bowl as the processor filled up. The only other ingredients are a glug and a half of cider vinegar and enough mayo to coat evenly.

Quite tasty! Just enough vinegar to give it that 'slaw' bite, and the tastes are just about in the right proportions. A successful test of the new machine.

I told anher it looks something like a mad scientist's salad, and he agreed. And it's all mine! Mine, I tell you! Muahahahaha!

He doesn't much like slaw.

Comments

[aefenglommung.livejournal.com]

Red cabbage bleeds its color into everything mixed with it. I keep trying to figure out how to combine chopped red and green cabbage into a "checkerboard slaw." But it all comes out looking salmon-colored and unappetizing.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

They are so handy for those shredded salads! They make quick work of cheese, too. And you can use them to slice potatoes evenly for gratin and make bread dough and pie crust and hummus and puree soups and make bread crumbs and pesto and herb dressings and and and. :D

[zeeth_kyrah]

That sounds like excellent slaw.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Isn't the pigment from red cabbage a pH indicator? The vinegar would be having an effect on the color if that's the case.

[ithryn.livejournal.com]

Your icon is making my wife hungry.