Red Cabbage Divine

This is one of my favorite winter recipes.  Delicious both hot and cold.  It's sort of a sweet and sour red cabbage but much milder.

Ingredients:
  1 medium head red cabbage cut into thin strips
  1 cup pineapple juice
  1 t salt
  1/2 cup golden raisins
  Tarragon vinegar - measurement to come later
  1/300 tsp Stevia - that's a very small sprinkle

In a large kettle bring pineapple juice, cabbage and salt to a boil.  Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.

While this is going on put the raisins into a  1/2 cup measuring cup.  Next, pour in the tarragon vinegar to cover.  When the first 20 minutes has expired toss this in along with the Stevia, mix, cover, and simmer for another 20 minutes.  That's it.  This is one of those dishes that tastes better the next day after it spends some time in the refrigerator getting to blend all of its flavors together.

NOTE ON TARRAGON VINEGAR: I make my own tarragon vinegar by purchasing cheap bottles of red wine vinegar and stuffing fronds of fresh tarragon into the bottles.  This tarragon is growing in my garden and comes back every year.

A PICTURE IS WORTH???   I actually did take a picture of this dish.  In fact, I took about a dozen pictures.  All of them looked like a dish of purple worms.  Sorry I had to be so blunt about it and I hope you're not eating right now. So instead of a picture of the cabbage I've included a picture of my dad.  He's 96 and doing well and he loves sweet and sour purple cabbage.  At least he loved it when he still had teeth!