Stuffed cabbage leaves

I'm getting addicted to these:
Peel and dice a couple of spuds, an onion, three or four cloves of garlic and half a beef tomato.  Mix them up and add a good amount of oregano, plenty of white pepper, a good shake of dried chillies and about a tablespoon of chopped, salted runner beans. Finally, chuck in a tin of mackerel and mix everything up. Then, take two big cabbage leaves and cut out the thickest part of the main stems. Put a good dollop of the mixture on one leaf, roll it up and then roll it up in the second leaf. Repeat till you've used up the mixture. Put the parcels in a steamer and steam for about twenty minutes.  Absolutely delicious! And costs practically nothing. If you let the cabbage leaves wilt for a while before using, they wrap better.

Sounds ..........interesting. Is this one of your own concoctions Sean or out of a recipe book?. My cabbage crop have been decimated by caterpillars. So I have completely cut them back to let them resprout. The hens have had a good feast on the remains.

My own concoction Wayland. My cabbages were attacked too, but I made a habit of, every morning before breakfast, going around the cabbages and picking off every caterpillar I could find - and there were lots! It was a pain in the neck, but the result is I now have fine big cabbage leaves to wrap up my concoctions!

Sean, were you ever a chef? You sound like you are a wizard in the kitchen.

He`s a bit of a wizard anyway

Don't like the whole concept of chefs - too pretentious for my liking. Cooks are good enough for me!

What ever you are, you obviously enjoy it.

I'd enjoy it a whole lot more if I didn't have this infernal habit of putting on weight.  I had to more or less cut out bread, pies, tarts, custards, puddings, dumplings - all the good stuff - or I wouldn't be able to get into the trousers! Sadly, I have to scrape by on a dreary diet of meat, fish and vegetables. If it wasn't for beer, cider and tobacco, I'd be as well to call it off altogether..

I am well versed with the need for dieting. Not for meself but in support of my OH. I can loose weight at will but not so "Her indoors". My philosophy is if you want to loose weight stop eating! Never fails. Trouble is she cannot put up with hunger.