Friday, September 5, 2008

Calista's Cabbage


OK--so almost every 3rd grader in Utah and Idaho received a little cabbage plant and the end of school in May from Bonnie Plants. The kids are encouraged to plant their seedlings and then see what kind of a giant cabbage they can grow. They're supposed to take a picture with their cabbage and then send it in. A random person is picked from each state (?) to win a $1000 scholarship.


Calista took this challenge seriously and, after three different locations, her cabbage ended up in a corner of our garden. It did great!!! It must have been all the love she gave it. She named her cabbage Cory (after one of her best friends) and would spend time talking to it and loving it.


We finally decided it was time to pick it and weigh it. It came in at about 19 pounds. She took some cute pictures with it, and now we face eating 19 pounds of cabbage. Whew!!! So far we've had Chinese cabbage salad, egg rolls, Okonomiyaki (a Japanese food similar to egg foo yung), Yakisoba (Japanese stir fry with cabbage and noodles), and stuffed cabbage leaves. That might sound like a lot of dishes involving cabbage, but we still have over half of the thing left. Any other cabbage suggestions? Compost, maybe?


Perhaps next year we could get a pumpkin plant instead.


Have a good one!!!


Erin

3 comments:

The Shep's Herd said...

Holy cabbage --good job Calista !!! You must have a green thumb,or two??

Erin said...

Need any cabbage, Julie?

CB said...

Wow! That is an amazing cabbage - Holy Smokes!
Erin you are an amazing mom to think of so many ways to cook it:))

I really enjoy your blog and I need to add you to my roll.

I used to have a Twilight counter on mine but they changed the date of when the movie is coming out and so I took it off and never put it back on. We are doing a midnight movie girl's night though when it comes out in November - You'll have to go with!!

HUGS!! (wink wink)