Beer can..... Cabbage?

TN_Sister_State

Just saw this on the internets and it sounds like it could make a very delicious and interesting slaw or add that little something to your salad. May have to try this simple due to the low cost if it fails. Has anyone heard of this or done this before? May be worth a look for @fruitguy and the lake trip. They describe making a sandwich from it. 

http://skillet.lifehacker.com/beer-can-cabbage-is-the-ultimate-grilled-vegetable-1782448712?utm_source=taboola

lousubcap

Your timing is perfect - SWMBO just yesterday brought home a cabbage and said, "Do something with it."  The above is quite an easy cook compared with one  I have used in the past and copied below:
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) Unsalted Butter 
4 slices (1/4 pound; preferably atisanal) Bacon, cut crosswise into 1/4 inch slivers
1 small Onion, finely chopped 
1 medium size Green Cabbage (about 2 pounds)
1/4 cup Basic Barbecue Sauce, or your favorite commercial brand
Coarse Salt and Black Pepper 
2 cups wood chips, 

Directions

Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add the bacon and onion and cook until just beginning to brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Drain the bacon and onion in a strainer over a bowl and reserve the drippings. Crumple a piece of aluminum foil and shape it into a ring about 3 inches in diameter.

Cut the core out of the cabbage and discard. Cut the remaining butter into dice. Stir the barbecue sauce into the bacon and onion mixture. Prop the cabbage upright on the aluminum foil ring, cavity facing up. Place the bacon and onion mixture in the cavity and top with as many pieces of butter as will fit. Using a basting brush, paint the outside of the cabbage with bacon drippings (save any remaining bacon fat for basting pork chops or making baked beans). Season the cabbage lightly with salt and generously with pepper.

Set up the grill for indirect grilling and preheat to medium.  Egg is ready at 350-400, indirect. When ready to cook, place the cabbage on its aluminum foil ring in the center of the hot grate away from the heat. If using a charcoal grill, toss all the wood chips on the coals. Cover the grill.

Grill the cabbage until very tender (when done it will be easy to pierce with a skewer), 1 to 1 1/2 hours. To serve, peel off any dried-out or charred outside leaves and discard. Cut the cabbage into wedges and serve.

moosepro

I would rather drink that beer after the cook than eat that cabbage.    

Eggscuses

moosepro said:

I would rather drink that beer after the cook than eat that cabbage.    

I'm not a cabbage fan either but I'd try it. Use to not like asparagus till a friend cooked over coals. Now that's the only way I eat it.