Bill > wrote in message >. ..
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:11:38 GMT, "Noam"
> > wrote:
>
> >Looking for a simple one step recipe to cook cabbage, like in ham and
> >cabbage, or corned beef and cabbage. I tried to boil it with salt, allspice
> >and paprika - not good. Also, a simple, one step recipe for cabbage soup,
> >all vegetable, no dairy or flour, meat O.K.- Noam
>
> Hey Noam!
> There is a recipe I got out of "The Four Ingredient Cookbook" a few
> years ago which is delicious but I cannot remember all four of the
> ingredients. It calls for shredded cabbage steamed in a big frying pan
> with lid on...then take a package of cream cheese and just stir it
> into the hot cooked cabbage. There is a spice you sprinkle onto it
> too...but I forget what you call it...little black specks smaller than
> peppercorns...but black specks about the size of bb's.


Perhaps it's Nigella sativa, aka kalonji, aka black cumin, aka black caraway.
The Russian or Yiddish name escapes me at the moment, but I swear I knew it
just a year or two ago.

Cindy Hamilton