Sweet-n-Hot Cabbage

Sweet-n-Hot Cabbage

Ingredients:
1 head cauliflower
1 head cabbage
1 good-sized onion
4 large tomatoes
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1 green pepper
¾ cup water
½ cup butter or margarine (optional)
1 T Texas Pete or Tabasco (adjust to personal taste)
5 T sugar (adjust to personal taste)
Salt
Pepper

Directions:
Chop cabbage, cauliflower, tomato, onion and green pepper. Add all chopped items into
large stockpot and add water. Cover and bring to a boil. Lower heat. Add butter, hot
sauce, and sugar. Simmer ingredients for at least thirty minutes or until cabbage and
cauliflower is tender, and water has reduced. Salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot or cold.
Keeps well if covered in refrigerator. This side dish can be served either hot or cold, and
also makes a wonderful in between meal as well.
Author’s Bio:
This recipe is a delightful twist on the plain-old cabbage dish that was passed
down to me from my mother-in-law, Ms. Linda from Beckley, West Virginia. I have to
admit that in the past, cabbage has not been my ingredient of choice for cooking, but I
have enjoyed cooking and serving this dish to both my family and guests. It has a smooth
bite with a pleasing aftertaste that will surprise most people who try this dish for the first
time. Bon appetite! ~ Dehanna Bailee
You can find out more about Dehanna Bailee or her current book, TRUE NATURE,
by visiting her web site at
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MOLLY’S GEORGIA FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Excerpt from Georgia’s Ghostly Getaways:
Fortunately for the modern traveler, Milledgeville managed to preserve much of
its antebellum architecture and flavor. You can still tour The Old Governor’s Mansion,
one of the South’s best examples of Greek Revival architecture. St. Stephen’s Episcopal
Church, where Sherman’s soldiers stabled their horses, is still in use as a house of
worship. The tale of a child who got the pipe organ replaced after Federal troops poured
molasses into the original organ is a case of fact being more interesting than fiction.
The Old Governors Mansion seems to have multiple spirits. There is Molly, who
spent her life as the cook. Delicious smells emanate from the basement kitchen although
the huge red brick fireplace is no longer used for cooking. When you tour the mansion
you may witness unusual phenomena. Others have. At a tour in 1992, all the lights
flickered as if keeping time to unheard music. Workers have heard footsteps and even
seen apparitions. Servants tell of beds being unmade by spirits after the room is cleaned.
In an interview with James C. Turner, the curator of the Mansion, he stated “ This was a
house of life and death. Governor Brown’s younger brother, John Brown, returned here in
1864 severely wounded in battle. He died here and was laid out in the rotunda. From time
to time people have heard him groaning in his pain. Likewise, Governor Cobb’s three-
year-old daughter, Aurora died on the upper floor. People sometimes hear a little girl
crying, ‘Mama, Mama’.”
Are these spirits still earthbound in this place and era of so much tragedy? You
can judge for yourself. Tours are held Tuesday through Sunday.
Molly’s Georgia Fried Green Tomatoes