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Summertime, and the livin’ is hot, humid and downright badly in need of a shade tree and a hammock right now.<\/p>\n
So here’s a quick easy dish to serve at an outdoor cookout (to get you out of the kitchen) or just as a filler. It is simple to fix, and can be made in the morning or the night before your cookout. It’s something my Dad’s mother used to make when we went to visit her in Nebraska.<\/p>\n
Tomato &\u00a0 Cabbage Cole Slaw<\/strong><\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n Cabbage – fresh and green, but you can add the red\/purple cabbage for color, just shred it and mix well<\/p>\n Onions – peel and chop and toss into the bowl; if you decide to use green onions, include the tails chopped up instead of tossing the.<\/p>\n Tomatoes – at least two big, fat red ones, fresh from your garden if you have one; cut up and chop into small pieces, add to the bowl along with the juice from the tomatoes. The only things that should be tossed are the tomato stems.<\/p>\n Radishes – white icicle and red radishes are fine, just remove the tails and roots and make sure they are clean. Slicing them is fine, if you don’t want to bother with chopping.<\/p>\n Salt & pepper: season to taste, but don’t overdo.<\/p>\n You can also chop up a medium-sized zucchini and throw that into this mix. Just cut off the stem and the other end and do a coarse chop on this. No more than two medium zukes are needed. Why not use cucumber? It gets limp and soggy. Zucchini doesn’t, and yes, you can also use yellow squash as pictured above.<\/p>\n Make this first thing in the morning and then refrigerate it. Give this a real good stir and mixing, cover with cling wrap and refrigerate until supper time.\u00a0 This gives the slaw time to settle into its flavoring and chill all the way through.\u00a0 By the time you have the grill going and the meat cooking, the slaw will be awash in its own flavors and only needs a good stir before putting it on the table.<\/p>\n Make sure you have plenty of cold drinks on hand, too, because it’s summertime, and the livin’ should really be easy. The kids can be kept busy with hide & seek, Blind Man’s Bluff, and double dutch jump rope.<\/p>\n Maybe you’ll have a few hours when the idiocy going on will seem far away, where it belongs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"