Dear Folks, Every day that I wake up I look forward to the next highlight of my day. Well, today I didn't have a happy highlight. Instead I had a dismal failure. It had to do with my frozen cut up cabbage. Over a week ago I made up a big pot of vegetable soup and I dumped in the right amount of frozen cabbage. Well, not only didn't the cabbage give the cabbage flavor to the soup that I had expected but it was so tough that it was difficult to chew. Today I was still "chewing" on the soup and I figured it was time to test out the cabbage I still had in the freezer. First I thought I should just thaw it out and then chop it up finely in my food processor so that it wouldn't be so tough. But then I had second thoughts. What if after I had done all that and boiled up the chopped cabbage to see if it made any difference, it still was either tough or still had that non-cabbage flavor. So I dumped all of the frozen cabbage right into the right size pan and let it boil until it should have been tender. Well not only wasn't it the least bit tender but there wasn't the typical wonderful smell of boiled cabbage in the kitchen. For those of you who love the smell you know what I mean and for those of you who hate the smell you also know what I mean. It just didn't smell like cabbage at all. I turned off the burner on the stove, put the pot aside to cool off and when it was cool enough I dumped the contents into a plastic bag and tossed it into the trash. I really hated to waste good food like that but I'd done the best I could to salvage the cabbage. OK, you win some, you lose some. At least I have more room in my freezer. Still looking for the next highlight. vee