Eating your vegetables

I know this is not a cooking blog but so what. Here's a recipe for a little thing I like to call Barbecued Cabbage. OK, I don't necessarily like to call it that but I don't mind.

1 large cabbage

3-4 slices bacon, snipped into pieces

1 small onion, diced

½ green pepper, diced

½ cup (or more?) BBQ sauce

½ stick butter

Of course, you can add or subtract anything you want.

Carve a large cone/crater out of the base of the cabbage. Maybe 2” deep, 3-4” across. Eat the part you carved out.

Form a foil donut as a base for the cabbage.

Sauté the bacon, onion, and pepper.

Drain the mixture and save some bacon grease.

Stir the BBQ sauce into the mix.

Place the cabbage crater-up on the foil donut on the grill. Paint the outer leaves with the bacon grease.

Fill the crater with the mixture.

Plop cubes of butter on top.

Grill over indirect medium heat for an hour and a half. Maybe 2 hours. You can add wood chips for a smoky flavor. If you don't have a grill, I don't know what to tell you.

When the mixture is bubbling, the cabbage is probably done. Allow it to cool a bit.

Use tongs to move the cabbage to a plate. Did the donut come with? That’s OK.

It's still hot. Let it cool even more.

Remove the burnt outer leaves and the donut. Throw the slag away.

Cut the cabbage into wedges and serve to people you like. If you don't have any friends, eat it all yourself.

That’s about it. I don’t know if that sounds easy or hard. But I’m telling you it’s super easy.