SPICY FRIED CABBAGE AND SAUSAGE #Recipe #Giveaway @vmburns

 VMBURNS: Cabbage. even fried cabbage can be a little bland. This Fried Cabbage and Sausage recipe is anything, but bland. If you like spice, then this recipe has it. I've tried to reduce some of the heat by cutting the cajun seasoning in half. However, if you're in the camp that says, the spicier the better, than double it. If you prefer a bit less, KICK, then follow the recipe as written below. If it's still too spicy, then you can consider adding a couple of potatoes to the recipe to soak up some of the spices. Use your favorite cajun seasoning or I've included one below if you don't have it in your spice dish. I decided to add both green and red bell peppers for color. Use one or both. This recipe is flexible.

SPICY FRIED CABBAGE AND SAUSAGE

INGREDIENTS

• 6 slices bacon, chopped 
• 1/2 lb Andoulle Sausage, sliced
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped (optional)
• 1 green pepper, chopped
• 1 small head cabbage, chopped
•  1 (15 oz) can diced tomatoes, undrained
• 2 teaspoons cajun seasoning
• 3/4 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

CAJUN SEASONING

• 2 1/2 teaspoons Smoked paprika
• 2 teaspoons Garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon Sea salt
• 1 teaspoon Onion powder
• 1 teaspoon Black pepper
• 1 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
• 1 1/4 teaspoons Oregano
• 1 1/4 teaspoons Thyme
• 1/2 teaspoon Red pepper flakes

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cook the chopped bacon until crispy and remove to a paper towel.
   
   
   
2. Cook sliced sausage until the edges start to brown and renders fat (approximately 3-5 minutes). I like my sausage really crispy, so cook to your desired doneness. Remove sausage from the skillet and drain on paper towels.
3. Add the onions and peppers and cook until soft. 
   
4. Add cabbage and cook on medium-high for about 5 minutes, stirring regularly, until the cabbage wilts. 
   
   
   
5. Add all of the remaining ingredients and the sausage and bacon. Cover the skillet and cook for 10 minutes on medium-low.
   
   
6. Remove the lid and finish cooking until cabbage is desired tenderness and most of the cooking liquid is reduced. 
   
7. Serve immediately. 

NOTE: There are potatoes in the ingredient list picture, but none in the recipe. That's to soak up some of the spices. Sometimes I can be heavy handed with the Cajun seasoning and need to tone it down. 

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When the bookshop she owns becomes a crime scene, mystery writer Samantha Washington discovers there is such a thing as bad publicity . . .

 
After the local library in North Harbor, Michigan, is flooded in a storm, Sam offers her bookstore as a new venue for the Mystery Mavens Book Club. Unfortunately, she immediately runs afoul of the club leader, Delia Marshall, a book reviewer who can make or break careers—something Sam can ill afford with her debut historical mystery soon to be published.
 


But the next morning, Sam opens her shop to find the unpleasant woman dead on the floor, bashed with a heavy—apparently lethal—tome: the Complete Works of Agatha Christie. While Sam is busy writing her latest British historical mystery in which the queen mother is suspected in the murder of a London Times correspondent, a pair of ambitious cops suspect Sam of the real-life crime. When she gathers Nano Jo and their friends from the Shady Acres Retirement Village to review the case, they discover every one of the Mavens had a motive. With her novel about to hit the stores, Sam must find out who clubbed Delia before a judge throws the book at her . . . 

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