coleslaw recipes please

[psocoptera]

I have fortuitously ended up with two half-heads of cabbage* and an office cookout on Friday. I would like to make a really kick-ass coleslaw; a coleslaw with some sort of special element distinguishing it from mere run-of-the-mill cabbage drowning in mayonnaise. Anyone out there with a great recipe?

*One green, one purple, leftover from a cabbage-apple-leek soup that I have turned out not to like much.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

hmmm, I feel like I should be able to answer this as I make a lot of cabbage salad, but I don't use a lot of useful recipes.

I like cabbage salad with japanese-type seasoning: rice vinegar, veg oil, soy sauce and sesame seeds. You could make the two types of cabbage separately and then mix them at the last minute to keep the colors from blending.

Or make a very garlicky dressing, using a blender, food processor or stick blender to mix whole cloves in with red vinegar and olive oil. Use lots of mustard seeds in the salad.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Ooh, your suggestions *sound* the best. Definitely want to try that japanese-type cabbage salad sometime. A good suggestion about the colors blending but I have decided that it's just work and I don't care. ::grin::