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last night.
My favourite restaurant changed its side vegetables for the salmon. Although that pretty, tasty vegetable sitting on top of the lentils looked innocent, alas, it was not.
Intolerance isn't an allergy, but it can make you miserable for hours.
Of Cabbages and Kale
The thought of cabbage makes me quail
And long to drown in Carlsberg Ale.
Repeated stabs of gaseous pain
Make cabbages my diet bane.
Although they've lots of Vitamin K
I'd rather get it some other way.
From Antique Piano & Other Sour Notes, Deco Owl Press
Copyright Barbara Etlin, 2014, all rights reserved
Not a cabbage fan, I gather... :D
ReplyDeleteTry German red cabbage cooked slowly to a sweet & sour concoction. Irresistible, but I have no idea how much vitamin K is still there after all that.
I like the taste, but I haven't willingly eaten cooked cabbage in 40 years. I think it'll be another 40 until I try again! Cooked cabbage of any kind is a problem. Raw cabbage, such as coleslaw, doesn't bother me.
DeleteGood poem but I'm sorry you had to suffer through cabbage pain. I'm a big fan of kimchi (fermented cabbage) and the good bugs should aid digestion without the pain.
ReplyDeleteThanks. After my most recent cabbage experience, I'll just watch you enjoying kimchi for both of us...
DeleteFun poem! Interesting that you can eat it raw but not cooked. I'm the opposite for most vegetables, although like you, I enjoy coleslaw!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I suspect that something changes chemically when cabbage is cooked that causes problems for me. My husband can't eat raw tomatoes but can eat cooked ones...
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