cabbage
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Crisp bacon, juicy diced tomatoes and ribbons of shaved green cabbage get folded in at the end, where they stay cool, crunchy and unmistakably BLT-adjacent.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
The first night, I topped bowls with avocado and sour cream; the second, I spooned leftovers over white rice with shredded cabbage and green onion left over from another dinner earlier in the week.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
On a recent morning, Nones took photos for a cookbook, shooting portraits of residents who submitted recipes for Romanian stuffed cabbage and gumbo, coaching them from his chair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
"Genetic diversity is a resource for us too as humans, especially the wild relatives of crops. We've got quite a few in Wales, like sea radish, sea carrot, sea cabbage," said Kevin.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Then Ma put on the boiled potatoes and cabbage and meat, the baked beans, the hot johnny-cake and the baked Hubbard squash, and she poured the tea.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In an evil moment he "cabbaged" some cloth, was detected, tried, condemned, and sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment.
From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote
All except one—that one lay in the plate of the man from whom I had cabbaged the lot.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
Third, against O'Brallaghan; the cause: impudence on various occasions, and slanderous reports relating to cabbaged cloth since the period of their dissolving all connection with each other.
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke
"We cabbaged them; it was the best we could do," said Egan.
From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis
And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading—room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
The next step I took was to order William Francis, John Thompson, Samuel Picket, and Joshua Peck to be taken into custody, on their return from cabbaging.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter