Cabbage, it is green, it’s healthy and good for you. Uh huh
9.30 pm Sunday 20th October 2013
PN : I am hungry.
Mrs S. You’re hungry? It’s a bit late.
PN: uh huh.
Mrs S: There’s some cabbage in the fridge go and nuke it.
PN: It’s ok I’m not that hungry.
Mrs S: You’re like a child, you eat with your eyes and your ears.
PN: Where are you going?
Mrs S: To nuke the cabbage.
PN: NO, REALLY IT IS OK. I AM NOT HUNGRY
3 mins later……. PING
munch munch munch
PN: How come this cabbage is so nice, what did you do to it?
Mrs S. I cooked it in some of your red wine.
PN: Is there any more?
Mrs S: See? You should listen to me more often, you are like a child.
PN: Uh huh.
Mrs Sensible’s Cabbage, cooked in my best Barbera with onion, carrots and love.
Englishman in Italy 
Aw, any woman that can make cabbage taste nice is definitely worth keeping! 🙂
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She is a great cook. 🙂
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Any left…?!
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Only what is in the dish, I will have it for my dinner with some leftover shepherds pie. Today is leftovers day.
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I love leftovers day 🙂
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Me too but I wish today was yesterday or even Saturday.
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You see, veggies are good for you, it’s how they’re cooked that makes all the difference! 🙂
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Hmm! Give me steak and chips or fish and chips of chocolate or…
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With you brother
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Eating sensibly has its points but where is the fun.
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Exactly – now you have oyur Italian licence venture far for a slice of MEAT!
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and that is why children are magic
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True, but I think Mrs Sensible was hoping I would grow up one day.
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what one may call ‘magic’, others may call ‘immaturity.’ to each their own.
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I just try to enjoy life, and I naturally see the humour in some of the absurdities of living in Italy.
At the end of the day I am still just a big kid.
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i am very similar, though my humor comes from life in the states. it never fails to amuse/amaze me. i am often in a state of shock and awe. and i’m okay with that. hope my future partner (who is yet to be met), is too.
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Wine will always help those horrible veggies go down a bit better. 🙂
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It was really tasty, I but have to hide my little cache of booze or it slowly disappears. I noticed my best scotch whisky had nearly vanished, when I questioned her drinking habits, she said she had used it for cooking …aaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhhhhh.
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Mrs. Sensible is quite talented it seems in using what is on hand to prepare meals.
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She’ll be cooking you Snozzcumbers next. Beware. As long as you don’t get given spinach….. Brrr.
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Snozzcumbers, now there is a thought. If it flies and is not a plane, has four legs and is not a table or is found under the sea but is not a submarine; Mrs Sensible can and will cook it. I won’t list the poor beasts she has cooked and served on a plate.
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I had to look up the word ‘nuke’…thought at first it was a typo until I saw it used twice. Now I know what it means. I can’t ‘nuke’ anything because I don’t have a ‘nuker’…
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No microwave!!!!!
How do you reheat your cup of tea when it goes cold?
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I love that saying- You eat with your eyes and your ears! Every time my husband starts looking for something (his keys, wallet, phone) I say to him “Look with your eyes, not your mouth!” Got it from my mum =) I agree with Mrs. S, you are like a kid! =p
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🙂
I know, just a kid.
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That looks amazing! What a great way to eat your vegetables when they are soaked in Barbera wine! Yummy 🙂
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They don’t taste of wine although they have turned red because of the wine. Mrs Sensible adds a little carrot and onion plus my wine.
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Smart lady, cabbage is delizioso
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I remember cabbage from my school days in England, green, soggy, bitter and normally thrown away.
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Hello Englishman in Italy! I’ve just discovered you and have had great fun reading all your posts. I am English girl in Positano and also find myself with a garden full of cabbages at the moment that the garden fairy (aka Nonno) keeps leaving in my kitchen. I find that it actually tastes good if chopped up and sizzled in a frying pan for about 5 minutes with olive oil, garlic, slat and pepper…Even half and half child will eat it!
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Hi Nicki,
Welcome to my little corner of madness.
You read all the posts!! Even the one about my mother in law and the Gatwick police?
Thanks for the advice re cooking cabbage, but I try not to spend too much time in the kitchen otherwise I end up loading or unloading the dishwasher.
I am glad you also have a garden fairy, Luigina grows much better veg than me and we might starve without the stuff she leaves on our doorstep 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Looks yummy. I’ll try that on himself. He doesn’t ‘think’ he likes cabbage either.
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It is a man thing….
If you want the recipe I will send it to you.
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Yes, please. I was eying the cabbages in the supermarket this morning!
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OK I will send it. I have deleted your E mail from your message. I don’t want you to get a lot of spam…
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I wasn’t too precious about that email address but thank you just the same. I’ve got 3 other secret ones! lol
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yes yes we get it!! any excuses for you to get your daily dose of Barbera (or Chianti, or anything in a bottle of wine… ) 🙂
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