There is an Eastern European treat commonly found around this area, the cabbageburger.
Not much to a cabbageburger: browned ground beef, julienned cabbage, julienned onion, salt, pepper, and spices as preferred. I add ground ginger, paprika, and Worcestershire sauce. Cook this down to an al dente stage, and stuff into a lump of raw bread dough. Bake, eat!
Simple!
I decided to make cabbageburgers for the second time in twenty years. Before I used bread dough I made from scratch. This time, I experimented with commercially available frozen raw bread dough. Should have been simpler that way.
They taste pretty much like they look!
Done correctly, they look like hamburger buns that haven’t been sliced open.The first time I made them, they looked like they were supposed to. These, erm, I need a dog.
Dear, dear me! I guess I won’t be serving these to company! Or me.
Actually doesn’t look to bad an tasted good?
It wasn’t edible because the bread was tough and dense. I tried them, and decided the stomach ache wasn’t worth it.
It does seem a shame. I suspect that dough is designed for people who like the over-refined tasteless white fluff in the stores. Such a hearty sounding dish probably needs some good solid peasant bread dough.
Could well be. I don’t think the dough I made from scratch was exceptionally better other than I used whole wheat flour in it, too.
Well, I would be happy to oblige, but there is onion in the recipe. Otherwise, I’m sure I could help you clean up. Woof! (wags tail)
I wouldn’t actually feed it to a dog….! (I love you guys, too, you know!)
Woof!
Hey, have to have some standards!
Reminds me of my infamous “tacos al carbon”. Many years ago I was making tacos and wanted to warm the shells. I hung the taco shells on the wires of the oven rack, turned on the oven, then got distracted and ended up going outside to do yard work.
The Mrs comes outside telling me the house is full of smoke and what exactly was I doing? When I open the oven I see the taco shells are completely black … carbonized. “Tacos al carbon”
I totally relate to that! Great story, CB!
That goes onto my recipe page.
They are very tasty. I won’t say they are simple to make – theoretically they are – but the effort is worth it!
Em…pleasing to the eye, they are not! I’ll bet done right they would be tasty. I am making Shepard’s pie from hubby’s meatloaf that fell apart when he tried to carve it but he kept carving so we have a small pile of chunks. They aren’t pleasing to the eye but they taste good.
Shoko’s mom
Yes, I’ve made meatloaf like that, too! I turn it into everything from icky meatloaf and spaghetti to icky meatloaf mixed with instant potatoes for some sort of hodge-podge that always tastes fine, if fails the presentation game!
The Shepard’s Pie with the meatloaf was delicious and it looked good too.
Sounds tasty, actually, but I’ve always liked Shepherd’s pie….!
I think you are being hard on yourself
I would eat them
As always Sheldon
They were tough and inedible. Believe it, I tried them when they were just out of the oven on the idea that they would taste fine. The filling was great, but that was the end of the experiment.
Sounds delicious 🙂 I want to try this one as you… Thank you, love, nia
They are delicious, and could be made with any number of variations. I think onions and browned ground meat of some sort without cabbage would be good – a sort of meat pie-though I personally like cabbage.
I love all of them, and we have some meals with them but this seemed to me different and I will try. And then I will share with you too dear Weggie 🙂 Thank you, have a nice day and new week, love, nia
Thanks! Hop[e you have a great week as well!
Intersting!
They actually are very tasty. No, really! Just not these I made….! LOL!
You are a better person than I am – my culinary mistakes do not get mentioned or photographed…. and on occasion, Saphera can not be relied on to eat the evidence…
I thought the result was hilarious, in a pathetic sort of way! The result was more like what happens when you plan something special for a holiday meal where lots of family and friends will be there. In this instance, I’m the only “victim”. On the other hand, I had lots of the stuffing mixture left over, and it is tasty enough eaten as a side dish, which I probably will do.
There is usually a silver lining 😉
Yeah, I learned I need to work on my cabbageburger-making skills before I invite the neighbors over for supper!
I am not sure about the taste but the look is good . Next time it will be better yet !
In friendship
Michel
They are very tasty when made properly! There’s even a restaurant chain in the middle of the USA that specializes in them. They call their cabbageburger a Runza, which is also the name of the restaurant chain. The cabbageburger seems to have “migrated” to Nebraska, where I live, with Volga Deutsch farmers in the 19th Century, who came to this region for rich farmlands and a chance to own them. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=18&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjFpuyJ47PJAhVIWx4KHarADhI4ChAWCEowBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforkfingerschopsticks.com%2Fcabbage-cabbage-burgers-%25E2%2580%2593-runzas-bierocks%2F&usg=AFQjCNGog3YYUGrWP1QcoBuYViorr2GZIg&sig2=UXdZqqRUfUuf1f30UnBspA