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cream based dressing: Wrong

Vinegar based dressing: Right

I've been experimenting with different recipes from the 'net over the last few months. None have been bad.

For fourth of July I made this one, and thought it was good. The caraway seeds really did add to it. I don't think we had ever had any in the house, I specifically bought them for this.

https://www.foodiecrush.com/sweet-vinegar-coleslaw/

For the Crunchy Coleslaw
10 cups shredded coleslaw mix or 1 16-ounce bag
1 cup thinly sliced red onion
1 cup shredded red cabbage
1 carrot thinly slivered
1/3 cup canola oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
1 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

(Plus I added a teaspoon of mustard seed and poppy seeds because I had them and thought why not?)

In a large bowl, combine the coleslaw mix with the red onion, shredded red cabbage, and carrot. In a small bowl, whisk the canola oil, apple cider vinegar, sugar, caraway seeds, celery seed, kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Pour over the cabbage mixture and toss. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour for flavors to blend.

Sounds good...

I'm Bi-slaw.

Add shredded carrots.

Both cream-based and vinegar-based styles can be good. Both can be ruined by some lazy-assed clown that runs the cabbage through a food processor instead of taking the time to slice it.

I dont like it....but I will eat it.

Point of order-all my cabbage was thin sliced by a bigass Case kitchen knife.

You get the ladies auxiliary to do that for you?

I've yet to meet a slaw, I didn't like.

I actually like processed Cole slaw. There is a grocery store here that whizzes it in an industrial sized food processor with some sugar and a very light cream based dressing, and it is delicious. They sell gallons of the stuff.

But I like the rough chopped kind and the vinegar slaw too.

High five!

Vinegar based. Lime, Cilantro, Poblano and Jalapeno thrown in make a perfect slaw. Nothing else needed.

Can’t do caraway seeds.

Otherwise, I like most any cole slaw, except that green slime KFC serves.

I thought all Southern slaw required Dukes mayo. You should try slaw in restaurants. Every one I've tried is nothing but dry dull cabbage. From here all the way to Maine, they've all sucked. Thirty years ago lots of places had good slaw. Today, it's almost impossible to find.

Im not big on vinegar based slaw. I prefer creamy. One isn't right or wrong just different.

I’m a big fan of coleslaw- but always add a fair amount of mustard, horseradish, and apple cider vinegar as I like the tang of it, especially on a pulled pork or brisket sandwich.

See, the problem with your statement, is, you are wrong.




(all in good fun of course)

The ladies auxiliary was bitching about me making a mess in the kitchen.

I just whipped up a small batch.

It should go well with t-bones. and baked spuds.

Prefer creamy. Love the stuff. Eat it on hot dogs, BBQ, always with seafood, on turkey sandwiches with a little thousand island pretty much as a side, anytime. Love it as a side with bbq and give it a big squeeze of Carolina vinegar bbq sauce.

I don't recall eating any cream-based slaw, but I like mayo slaw. And am not opposed to vinegar-based either, but that seems more like shredded cabbage salad, with oil-vinegar salad dressing, and not slaw as I know it.

Either way, I don't have very strong opinions on it. For potato salad, I have a strong preference for mayo.