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"  Last night, I stopped by our new neighborhood farmers&amp;#039; market in hopes of happening upon an inspirational vegetable, home late from a long night of red dress-shopping for tomorrow&amp;#039;s Red Dress Awards\u2014the Woman&amp;#039;s Day signature event honoring women who have, in the most inspiring ways, survived heart disease.  Needing to be coddled just a tad due to both a bad case of the MTA Blues (which is what I&amp;#039;ve named my occasional bouts of frustration with the NYC subways and buses) and an extended focus on my thighs as I stood in front of Macy&amp;#039;s badly lit mirrors, I went with an old very-low-calorie standby: cabbage!   Mom used to make me and my sister Rae the famous Cabbage Soup of The Cabbage Soup Diet when we were younger, but occasionally, when we became bored of soup, we&amp;#039;d just boil the cabbage in plain salted water on our own for no more than eight to 10 minutes (so it remains slightly crunchy), and snack on it, seasoned with just a touch of garlic powder, salt and pepper. That&amp;#039;s what I did last night. Rae had left me a bit of bean salad from her dinner (chickpeas, chopped apple, red onion and Cheddar), which I further combined with some really excellent cherry tomatoes and a bit of Manchego cheese leftover from my Sunday night Kim Walker\u2013inspired risotto. For some meat, I baked a leftover chicken cutlet, also from Sunday, in a spill of extra-virgin olive oil, salt, pepper and a thin coat of Cajun pine nut breading.  The cabbage was surprisingly flavorful, and afterwards, I felt the perfect balance of not hungry, not full. Also, said cabbage, rather on the sly, replaced &amp;quot;the carb&amp;quot; that my meal really didn&amp;#039;t need. But this didn&amp;#039;t bother me at all. Nobody has ever had to force me to eat my peas.  Check out a few additional, more meal-like, cabbage recipes from WomansDay.com What are your favorite cabbage recipes, or your handy home-grown tips? Tell us in the comments.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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