How to Eat Bacon and Tell People You're Eating Vegetables

St. Patrick's Day is typically celebrated by eating corned beef and cabbage.  Well, that and copious drinking, but that's besides the point.  However, the last time I'd been looking for corned beef in the store, I'd struck out.  So I opted to go for the only other recipe I knew with cabbage featured prominently, which is cabbage and corn.

Ingredients:

1 head of Cabbage

1 bag of Frozen Corn

1 lb of bacon

Instructions:

Cut the bacon into thin strips

Fry the bacon in a large pan

Chop the cabbage

Remove bacon from pan, leave the grease in the pan

Add cabbage to bacon grease pan

Realize that 4 lbs of cabbage is a LOT of cabbage

Attempt to mash down the cabbage with the lid's pan

Fail spectacularly

Remove some cabbage and refrigerate for later

Cook the cabbage down a bit

Stir in corn

Cook it down some more

Stir bacon back into the pan

Cook it down some more

Serve with Guinness (it is St. Patrick's Day after all)

This is a pretty simple and easy meal.  The hardest part of it is cutting the cabbage, because those suckers are dense.  The great thing about this recipe is that the cabbage by and large absorbs the flavor from the bacon grease, so while you can tell people that you were eating cabbage, you were basically eating bacon.