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An easy winter salad that is good anytime of the year and always gets comments when I take it to a pot luck. So simple, I feel I don't deserve all the complements. I have gotten so many requests for the recipe that I have reproduced it here. I hope that you will try it and enjoy. 1 whole cabbage 2 Tbs. Roasted sesame seeds 2 Tbs. sea salt 2 lemons juiced 2 tsp. dark Sesame oil 1.)First cut the cabbage into quarters. Cut out the core root and lay the quarter on it's "tummy". (this will make it more secure and safer to cut on your cutting board.) Cut fine or shred the entire cabbage. Put the cabbage in a large bowl and mix in the salt. Cover with a plate and place a heavy weight on top of the plate; I like to use a gallon jug filled with water. In about one hour there will be a lot of water in the bowl, remove the weight and plate. 2) Take a handful of cabbage at a time and squeeze between your palms to eliminate the excess wat...

As a child I remember sitting around a large table at my Grandfather's house listening to the grownups talking over dinner. Most of the vegetables had been grown in the garden behind the house not too far from the chicken coop and the railroad tracks. My Dad and family lived "on the right side of the tracks, but so close that it didn't matter to some. My Grandfather had come down from Canada to settled and worked on the railroad. He was a big man, with a belly of a stomach that was firm against my head when he hugged me. In the living room was his chairand no one else could sit in it. It was an over stuffed rocking chair with wide legs and runners, sturdy enough to hold him and me while he read the Sunday funnies out loud. People talked a lot more those days. The dinner table was where all the excitement happened. There was a lot of laughter, big voices, points of view that would anger my Father and make my Mother red in the face. Children were remind...