Brisket and cabbage soup

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Brisket and cabbage soup sounds a bit plain, and why would I dedicate this meal to ManFlu?

Dedicated to ManFlu

Brisket and cabbage soup

Saturday tea. ManFlu cough healing brisket and cabbage laksa soup. #yummylummy #foodphotography #lowcarb #noaddedsugar #ManFlu #brisket #laksa Brisket, Prawns, Laksa paste, Cabbage, Red onion, Spring onion, Coriander, Ginger, Lime juice, Lime, Coconut cream G’day food lovers I’ve been coughing all day. I was asked out tonight but I’d be an unsightly disgusting dinner guest expectorating sticky mucopurulent phlegm into a handkerchief. I’ll have the recipe up on YummyLummy.com later. I added some finely sliced red cabbage and sugarloaf cabbage to a saucepan with some water and laksa paste and brought it to a boil. I simmered it for about ten minutes and then added some crushed ginger and lime juice and stirred it through. I took leftover sliced brisket and raw prawns and added it to the simmering cabbage and laksa flavours and stirred through the reef and beef. Once the prawns had changed colour I added in a small tin of coconut cream and stirred it through. Once everything had cooked through, I turned off the heat and added the coriander roots and stems plus the spring onion whites and greens. I ladled the soup into a bowl and garnished it with coriander leaves and a wedge of lime. My lips are still tingling and I can breathe a little more easily. I feel full though. Bye

This week I was struck by the deadly presumed infectious disease known colloquially as ManFlu. The exact ætiology isn’t known. It is most likely a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract, or it could be a complicated neuropsychiatric disorder which disproportionately affects men rather than women. I have met a few women who claim to have suffered from ManFlu, but after more intensive interrogation, their claims were more mocking rather than being legitimate. My theory is that ManFlu is a post-infectious sequel just like you can develop the post-infectious sequelæ of fatigue or depression after influenza. The questions which need answering and may form part of a grant application to the NHMRC include whether women can be infected with the viral cause and it’s just men who develop ManFlu after the infection, or whether the pathogen seeks out only men and why?

So, this brisket and cabbage soup is a lazy meal (unlike last week), a leftovers meal, and a meal to help unstick the gooey thick mucopurulent gunk in my paranasal sinuses so I can breathe a little more easily, albeit, momentarily.

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Brisket and cabbage soup with laksa flavours and no added sugar
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Faffing
20 mins
Total Time
1 hr
 
Brisket and cabbage soup with laksa flavours and no added sugar as my cure for the deadly presumed infectious disease known as ManFlu
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Asian, Australian
Keyword: Beef brisket, Cabbage soup, Laksa, Slow cooker
Servings: 1 Sick and coughing human macrophage
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary
Ingredients
  • Slow-cooked brisket
  • Raw prawns
  • Red cabbage
  • Sugarloaf cabbage
  • Red onion
  • Spring onions
  • Ginger
  • Coriander
  • Laksa paste
Instructions
Slow-cooked brisket
  1. I cooked this last week and preserved the brisket in the freezer. I thawed the meat overnight in the refrigerator.
  2. Set up your slow cooker. I use a fast slow cooker to save space in the kitchenette in the one bedroom flat I rent.
  3. Unwrap your meat from the environmentally unfriendly plastic wrapping and put your meat into the slow cooker.
  4. Add a cup of beef stock and a good squirt of Worcestershire sauce plus a good squirt or two of barbecue sauce.
  5. Put the lid on the slow cooker, set the timer for eight hours, and turn it one.
  6. When your meat is cooked, removed your delicate and friable meat from the slow cooker being careful that as the muscle bundles come away and your meat falls apart not to drop any on the floor and waste it.
  7. With a sharp cooks knife, slice your meat thinly and lay your meat into a container which can be used to preserve your meat in the freezer.
  8. The day before you need your meat, remove the container from your freezer and put it into your refrigerator so your meat can gently thaw.
Brisket and cabbage soup
  1. Cut your meat into thin slices and place into a container of some kind for later.
  2. Remove the prawns from the refrigerator and put them into a container of some kind for later. I know that some people will go to the trouble of removing the alimentary canal at this stage based on some aesthetic desire. I see no point in removing the alimentary canal. If the prawn is a little crunchy, it’s a little crunchy. Big deal. Deal with it. get over yourself. Why do people call this procedure ‘deveining’? The alimentary canal is a complex anatomical structure. An organ. It’s not a blood vessel let alone a vein.
  3. With a sharp cooks knife, slice the red cabbage and sugarloaf cabbage and put the cabbage into a container of some kind.
  4. With a mandolin and using a safety glove or the safety guard, slice up some red onion. Put the onion into some kind of container for later.
  5. Dissect the spring onions and separate the white part from the green part. With a really sharp paring knife, cut the white part on an angle and put it into the container with the red onion.
  6. With a sharp cooks knife, open up the green part of the spring onion, flatten out the green part and roll it with the inside outside and keep the diameter about 2.5 cm. Flatten the roll with your fingers, and on a cutting board, cut the green part of the spring onion to form curly ‘hairs’ of green spring onion. Put these ‘hairs’ into ice water to help keep the curls.
  7. Clean some coriander including the roots and stems. Separate the leaves and put them into some kind of container for later. Thinly slice the roots and stems and add them to the red onion and angle cut white bits of spring onion.
  8. Put the red cabbage and sugarloaf cabbage into a saucepan with some water as well as a couple of tablespoons of laksa paste plus the juice of a lime.
  9. Bring the water to a boil and cook until the cabbages are soft.
  10. Toss in the raw prawns and brisket and simmer until the prawns change colour.
  11. Add the coconut cream and stir through and bring it to a simmer.
  12. Turn off the heat and add in the red onion, coriander roots and stems plus the spring onion white and greens.
Plating up bit
  1. Ladle the soup into a bowl and garnish with a wedge of lime and the coriander leaves.
Blogging bit
  1. Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
  2. Eat the meal.
  3. Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
  4. Write the recipe.
  5. Write the blog post.
  6. Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

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Disclaimer

I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice. If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner. The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste. I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.

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  • Red cabbage and sugarloaf cabbage with brisket and prawns. Coconut cream added. Coriander and spring onion added.
  • Saturday tea. ManFlu cough healing brisket and cabbage laksa soup. #yummylummy #foodphotography #lowcarb #noaddedsugar #ManFlu #brisket #laksa Brisket, Prawns, Laksa paste, Cabbage, Red onion, Spring onion, Coriander, Ginger, Lime juice, Lime, Coconut cream G’day food lovers I’ve been coughing all day. I was asked out tonight but I’d be an unsightly disgusting dinner guest expectorating sticky mucopurulent phlegm into a handkerchief. I’ll have the recipe up on YummyLummy.com later. I added some finely sliced red cabbage and sugarloaf cabbage to a saucepan with some water and laksa paste and brought it to a boil. I simmered it for about ten minutes and then added some crushed ginger and lime juice and stirred it through. I took leftover sliced brisket and raw prawns and added it to the simmering cabbage and laksa flavours and stirred through the reef and beef. Once the prawns had changed colour I added in a small tin of coconut cream and stirred it through. Once everything had cooked through, I turned off the heat and added the coriander roots and stems plus the spring onion whites and greens. I ladled the soup into a bowl and garnished it with coriander leaves and a wedge of lime. My lips are still tingling and I can breathe a little more easily. I feel full though. Bye
  • Saturday tea. ManFlu cough healing brisket and cabbage laksa soup. #yummylummy #foodphotography #lowcarb #noaddedsugar #ManFlu #brisket #laksa Brisket, Prawns, Laksa paste, Cabbage, Red onion, Spring onion, Coriander, Ginger, Lime juice, Lime, Coconut cream G’day food lovers I’ve been coughing all day. I was asked out tonight but I’d be an unsightly disgusting dinner guest expectorating sticky mucopurulent phlegm into a handkerchief. I’ll have the recipe up on YummyLummy.com later. I added some finely sliced red cabbage and sugarloaf cabbage to a saucepan with some water and laksa paste and brought it to a boil. I simmered it for about ten minutes and then added some crushed ginger and lime juice and stirred it through. I took leftover sliced brisket and raw prawns and added it to the simmering cabbage and laksa flavours and stirred through the reef and beef. Once the prawns had changed colour I added in a small tin of coconut cream and stirred it through. Once everything had cooked through, I turned off the heat and added the coriander roots and stems plus the spring onion whites and greens. I ladled the soup into a bowl and garnished it with coriander leaves and a wedge of lime. My lips are still tingling and I can breathe a little more easily. I feel full though. Bye

Questions and answers

Is this really worth blogging about brisket and cabbage soup?

I was meant to go out tonight. I was invited to a dinner party. I’ve been coughing all day and I didn’t think I’d be suitable company as I coughed up sticky tenacious mucopurulent phlegm into my handkerchief all night.

This could be called low carb Asian reef and beef?

Yea, I guess so. I don’t know how many fair dinkum Asians replace the noodles with varieties of cabbage. I still prefer brisket and cabbage soup.

Did the brisket and cabbage soup help?

Sort of. I’m still coughing though.

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Final thoughts

Do you have any theories on ManFlu? Do you like cabbage soup? Do you have a cure for upper respiratory tract infections?

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19 Responses

  1. Well this certainly sounds like it will clear out those nasal passages – spicy steaming soup is the best! I hope this is your last cold for the season 🙂

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  9. That is no good you got Manflu. Hope you get better soon. Spring is coming and hopefully warmer temperatures your way to help you out. I am also curious about ManFlu. Maybe women get a version of it.

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