Fried Cabbage

It's actually finally feeling like fall in Central KY (it has been in the 90s for a ridiculous amount of time, and we have had zero rain for weeks!).  With fall weather comes fall food!!!
Fried cabbage is one of our absolute favorite meals.  It's bacon-y and savory and still kinda green so you can feel good about at least having a few vitamins under all that grease (sorta).  Bonus points - weirdly, this method of cooking cabbage doesn't leave your house smelling like a big boiled cabbage (again - bacon).

Enjoy!!

Dice and fry up an entire pound of bacon. (Yes, the whole package. Do it.)

While the bacon is frying, roughly chop a medium head of cabbage and dice a medium sweet onion.  Or get your husband who spent years as a produce manager in different grocery stores to do it ;) .

Ask same husband to peel and mince a couple cloves of garlic.  He will do eight.  Go with it.  You can't have too much garlic.  Ever.
Play the garlic some punk rock to get the juices flowing.  The Ramones and the Misfits did it for us.

Add the onions and garlic to the bacon (and skillet full of grease) and cook until soft and fragrant and starting to get the brown-translucent coloring.

Add the cabbage and give it a good stir to get it all coated in bacon grease. Cover and cook on medium-low until the cabbage is as soft as you want it.

Fry up some beer brats to enjoy with your fried cabbage.  Promise you will eat a more balanced diet tomorrow.  Enjoy life tonight.

Yum!!! Did I mention we love fall?