Justice for Cabbage Soup
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Some soup-related news before we get into today’s recipe:
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Justice for Cabbage Soup
I think we can all agree that cabbage soup won’t be wining any popularity contests anytime soon. The name alone conjures up overcooked grey-tinged stews, crash diets, and smelly kitchens. The vegetable, as a concept, is unexotic, ordinary, and sounds like something your grandma was forced to eat as child (I’m not exactly setting the stage for a glamourous soup here, I’m sorry). It also doesn’t help that there’s a French film named La Soupe aux Choux (The Cabbage Soup) about 2 old men eating cabbage soup in such excess that their farts summon an alien (I’m not making this up).
All that being said, cabbage is accessible, cheap, nutritious, and wholesome. And when combined with select spices and aromatics, it can be layered and complex. The fun spices and aromatics in question today are ginger, garlic, chili, lemongrass, and shallots (basically the Spice Girls), which add a distinctly Thai flair. The key is: CAREFULLY slicing everything very, very thinly using a mandoline (the vegetable slicer - as opposed to the instrument). As always, I highly recommend wearing a cut-resistant protection glove for the sake of your fingertips :)
