Baby Cabbages – Carol Gano

Yes, that’s the story kiddies are told if parents are not quite ready to disclose the entire story.

My kid has got a bun in the oven. Due to rise in and out of her this December. I wonder how she will tell the ‘How was I created saga’ to her kids. I can’t recall her asking me. Though my mother told me she explained the full story when I first asked at four years old – long before my memory worked to recall it. Consequently, it seemed like news to me in high school.

But honesty, where were the babies meant to come from? Slug babies at the root of each freshly developing cabbage? Or encased in layer upon layer of cabbage leaves, down to the central core of a cabbage? Unlike a Brussels sprout which grown 20 to a frond (are they attached opposite or alternate)? Baby cabbages are Brussel sprouts. Named that as originally in Brussels, Belgium from … what genetic engineering? Late 1400s to 1500s – like the Tulip story, so unique Brussel sprout took the Western world by storm! Like – other foods: pumpkins and tomatoes.

It is baked baby cabbage season. Slice ’em up, add oil and garlic, pop into a 200°C oven for 10-20 minutes. Maybe try dry fry (what’s the newish apparatus ‘Dryfrier’ - can it do Brussel sprouts?)

A cabbage Haiku

Winter Cabbage Dish

Bake it in the oven now

Layered onion-like

Does the sulphur in the cabbage make petunias cry? Onions cause petunia flowers to be lonely – if all alone. And cry!

Does that suggest humans ought to segregate themselves into likes and dislikes? We do it anyway, but are we just mimicking nature?

Naw.

Petunias don’t REALLY cry, nor are they lonely!