A side dish: simply cabbage slaw

I thought I would start a new set of small and mini side dish posts. I may have a few to do over the next couple of days (or within the week) to go along with some of the items that are being featured in our CSA boxes.

We are excited to have our first harvest of the cabbages! We are pleased to see how they have headed up. Golden Acre cabbages are well ahead of the Red Acre cabbages we planted at the same time.

We planted the cabbages on April 20th, so it took about 2 months for some of the plants to get to a nice sized head.

Our biggest head that we cut was almost 2.75 lbs!! It felt heavy and dense and we hope that it looks as good inside as it does from the outside.

Once we had finished our CSA box preparation for our saturday delivery, we found a moment to eat some dinner. To go along with our simple and quick meal of black beans, barley, carrots, onion, garlic and sprinkled with fresh basil, we were finally ready to cut into one of our heads of cabbage...
drum roll please....

Perfecto!

To accompany the bean dish, a small chunk of the cabbage was sliced off and then thinly sliced, drizzled with olive oil and then a squeeze of a half of a lemon from one of the lemons we harvested from Yeti's tree, dashed with salt and voila! Simply Cabbage Slaw ready as a crunchy, sweet, salty, sour addition to the meal.

The Cabbage Slaw:

Cabbage
olive oil
lemon
salt

Use as much of each ingredient as desired.
I really enjoy all the variations one can do with this simple side dish. I love adding very thinly sliced and diced ginger, thinly sliced onion, additional leafy greens, fresh herbs like basil or dill, pepper, and really just about anything you would put into a salad, but cabbage is the star green.
I'm looking forward to having this slaw tonight with the cabbage and the radicchio we harvested.

Note* I really do not like coleslaw as it is traditionally made. I first learned of this method of slaw when I was traveling through Belize for college and ate variations of it everywhere I went. (I think it has to do with mayonnaise being a bad idea in humid lands.) I think it is especially delicious with bean dishes.