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Coleslaw with Cherries and Walnuts
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| Categories: Food and Drink I've been making this coleslaw for a few years, now, but somehow never blogged it. It's a bit different in that it contains sour cream, walnuts and dried cherries. If I can find them, I use a combination of dried Bing and Rainier cherries.
Start by soaking for 30 minutes, a total of an half-cup of dried cherries in warm sherry, brandy or wine, just enough to cover the cherries.
Quarter & core one small green cabbage and one small red cabbage. Slice the pieces very thinly. If you have a mandolin, this works great to slice the quarters of cabbage. You should wind up with about 2 quarts of cabbage. Put the shredded cabbage into a large bowl.
Peel and shred two medium, sweet carrots and mix with the cabbage. That mandolin will come in handy here, or just use the vegetable peeler, whittling away at the carrots as if you were making toothpicks. 
Slowly pour in around a third of a cup of extra-virgin olive oil over the shredded cabbage/carrot mixture.
If you mix it with your hands, you can feel when you have enough oil to just lightly but completely, coat the cabbage. If you don't like to use your hands, just pour in a third of a cup of oil and hope it's the right amount.
Grind sea salt and rainbow pepper corns over the oiled cabbage to taste, and continue to mix. Set aside.
Juice a quarter to the whole of a small, sweet yellow onion (Walla-Walla, Visalia, or Maui). The amount of onion is really a matter of taste. To juice an onion, peel the amount to be juiced, and rub it over a ceramic, hole-less grater, collecting the juice in a mixing bowl.
Whisk together a quarter of a cup of tarragon white vinegar (wine or rice), a cup of sour cream, a teaspoon of freshly toasted caraway seeds - ground fine, a tablespoon of fine (quick-dissolving) white sugar and the onion juice.
Pour the dressing over the oiled, shredded cabbage.
Drain the cherries, and coarsely slice them; add to the dressed cabbage, and mix.
Chill for at least an hour, but overnight or even a day or two is fine.
Toast an half cup of walnut halves, dice and add to dressed cabbage, right before serving.
And there you have it.
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