We all pitch in on family dinners, and I decided to take a salad. You know how to make a salad? You ask yourself three questions: What have I got on hand? What would look pretty together? What would taste good together? So I opened…

Somehow, somewhere, I got hold of a box of spaetzle. Just in case you don’t know, spaetzle is — or possibly are — German dumplings. They take like 25 freakin’ minutes to cook, but they’re very hearty and yummy. So I cooked some. In the…

As a what? As a cabbage! Get the pickle outta yer ear! I know we usually think of cabbage as either sour or meh. But you have to make it sour, and it’s really a very yummy veg. Has lots of history, too. Cabbage, botanists…