{"id":6343,"date":"2016-08-07T21:15:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2016-08-07T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:18:03","slug":"sauerkraut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6343","title":{"rendered":"Sauerkraut"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been so long since I’ve posted [1].<\/a><\/p>\n

Summer is in full swing so it’s time to preserve summer’s bounty for the coming winter.<\/p>\n

As I tend to do, I got carried away the Columbia City Farmer’s Market last week and came home with 2 huge cabbages.<\/p>\n

\"Cabbages\"<\/a>
Cabbages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The answer to the question, “What to do with 2 huge cabbages?” is obvious: Sauerkraut!<\/p>\n

Take that cabbage and slice it thin.<\/p>\n

\"Slice<\/a>
Sliced Cabbages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And sprinkle it with salt and pack it into a crock.<\/p>\n

\"Packed<\/a>
Packed Cabbages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then let it rot. I put it in our mudroom. Debbie was in there the other day and said “Something’s died back here.” “That’s just the sauerkraut,” I told her. <\/p>\n

The sauerkraut will rot for about a month and then I’ll can or freeze it. A mudroom that reeks of death for a month is a small price to pay for a winter of Rueben sandwiches and choucroute garnie and pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day [2].<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

1.<\/a> The reasons for that are many and sundry and will be divulged in good time. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n

2. <\/a>Which brings you good luck for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cabbage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}