Cole Slaw Wars

I've got a bag of shredded cole slaw. How should I dress it?

I've always preferred my cole slaw naked. But that's just me...

Casual chic works best for summer.

Is mayonnaise casual chic?

Chop up a crisp apple, throw a handful of chopped pecans in it and then use Marie's Cole Slaw dressing. Once you've mixed it up, taste test and if necessary, add a little honey or a spoonful of brown sugar. Out of this world.

I like it North Carolina style, IOW, sweet. So I do mayo, S&P, celery seed, sugar to taste, distilled vinegar. Make the sauce first so you can mix it well. Give the sugar some time to dissolve before you add more. When the salt and sugar are both dissolved add a bag of slaw mix, Whole Foods has an organic one, or if your knife skills are good buy both a green and red cabbage and some carrots and slice as much of each cabbage as you want into very thin shreds and shred the carrot on a grater or in a food processor and add them to the sauce. It should be really wet if you want the NC style soaked in what they call slaw juice. It tastes better the next day or after sitting at least a few hours so the flavors marry.

If you don't like a sweet one I've read people rave about Ina Garten's blue cheese slaw. I think you can get the recipe free on the Food Network site.

Thanks, r7. I have the Whole Foods bag. I might give yours a try and add a jalapeno and tabasco. I like it spicy!

With my special dressing that takes three days to make 💦 💦

Muriel! There is a PERVERT in my thread! Please discipline r9 before he gets semen all over respectable threads!

In addition to the mayo based cole slaws, I also like vinegar/oil based ones. For the vinegar ones, just make a basic vinaigrette (vinegar, mustard, oil, spices). In the cole slaw add some sweet onion (or scallions. don't use regular onion raw). Dress the slaw, add some coarse ground pepper and taste for salt. It gets much better after sitting for a few hours.

That's how I usually do it, r11. I think I'll do half your way and half the other way. Thanks!

WF doesn’t slice the cabbage finely enough. But I do heartily endorse Marie’s dressing.

You're right, r13. The cabbage is pretty chunky. I made a spicy variation of r7. I used Duke's, sugar, apple cider vinegar and a squirt of half a lime (NO SEMEN squirts). Then I added black pepper, cayenne, sliced raw jalapenos and shallots. It's pretty good! I bet it'll be even better tomorrow.

In assless chaps with a little mayo.

Throw it away. Cole slaw is fucking disgusting. So disgusting, I started a thread on it months ago.

Ina Garten's blue cheese slaw may be the best thing I've ever eaten, seriously. I use a bag of cabbage slaw mix and adapt the recipe to fit -- then I add more blue cheese.

r16, your poll proves you're WRONG.

Silly OP -- a CAFTAN, of course.

Long John Silver's had great slaw. Unfortunately the one close to me shut down a few years ago.

R8 { . I like it spicy! }

I’ll bet you do……….just how spicy do you like it ?

R17 The cabbage/dressing ratio sounds way off: the dressing ingredients alone add up to four cups.

You do not need a quart of blue cheese dressing for what amounts to a small head of cabbage and four carrots.

Sadly, I’ve had this thought before. Is Long John Silver’s Coleslaw the same as KFC coleslaw?

I've never been a fan of cole slaw, but I think I'd like broccoli slaw. Has anyone tried it?

Mayo, pickling liquid from a jar of dill pickles, a little mustard and some hot sauce.

I prefer LJS slaw to KFC. KFC dices it into tiny squares and it's sweeter.

Marzetti slaw dressing. My grandma used it in the early 60s and I've liked it ever since. I'm surprised it still tastes the same after all these years.

Yes, the refrigerated broccoli slaw mix is really good for cole slaw.

I also use the bagged broccoli slaw as quick and easy stir fry for a faux asian noodle dish. The shedded slaw cooks very quickly and the size and shape of the shreds cling to the sauced noodles well. Add some shrimp or other protein and it's a meal in minutes.

R22, the blue cheese recipe works for me. I do use a bag of slaw mix instead of slicing the vegetables myself, but I don't recall reducing the dressing proportions -- I do add more cheese (without measuring it). Try it and see how it suits you as you go along -- well worth the effort, in my view.

You're very welcome R8. Your way sounds really good. I like spicy but can't do it anymore because of stomach issues.

Jon will show you at around the 2 minute mark.

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