dinner tonight

Kielbasa kebabs with cabbage and mashed potatoes.

     The igniter for the lower burner in our oven is broke, but the broiler still works, so we figured we'd have kebabs for dinner tonight. None of the traditional kebabs sounded good though, or took too long to marinate, so I figured some sort of sausage would be good. It seems that whenever I think "mm...sausage" I think of kielbasa. Not entirely sure what that says about my personality, but there we go.

First I made a marinade for the kebabs. 

     I mixed (from left to right) olive oil with some juice from Mama Lil's Sweet Hot Peppas, paprika, sea salt, onion powder, cayenne pepper, mustard powder, and fresh ground black pepper. The marinade sat for about 15 minutes while I chopped all the veg. up (red, orange, yellow bell peppers, button mushrooms, and onions.), so the flavours had time to mingle together over drinks.
  
     I then put all the chopped veg. in a bag with the marinade and, you're totally not going to believe this part, I let it sit. To marinate. Yeah, my mind was blown too.

     I feel that kielbasa has a great taste by itself, and doesn't need the extra boost here, so I only marinated the vegetables.

    While that sat I chopped up a head of cabbage and some carrots, tossed it in my deep cast iron skillet, sprinkled some onion powder, black pepper, paprika, chicken bouillon, apple cider vinegar, mama lil's sweet hot peppas juice, and water over it, tossed in the kebab stuff that didn't fit on skewers, set it on med. high and covered it to "steam".

This is the cabbage all done cooking.

    Then I skewered. The worst part of making kebabs, I hate doing it but I love the results.

we have terrible lighting in our kitchen.

    Finally I broiled the kebabs for about 15min on the middle rack, flipping once, and another 2-3 minutes on the top rack, again flipping once. They came out great. To be honest, I love the taste of the charcoal grill a lot more, but it was too damned windy to try that today

well seasoned baking sheet

     Then I just made some instant mash, and yeah. Dinner.

 bone aperitif.