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It is Lent, and, as in previous years, we are observing it as exercise in will-power and Medieval foodways. We eschew dairy products, eggs, and, of course, meat. We do allow ourselves one 'feast day' each week, when such restrictions are lifted. Each year we fall back to old favorites for many meals - some of which have been chronicled here before. However, we also explore uncharted territory, often guided by what has arrived in our weekly veg box. Last week, for instance, we had cabbage. I started with a vague idea about stuffed cabbage, but decided that was too much effort and drifted into something related but different.

• half a head of cabbage
• a can of tomatoes
• a quantity, 1/2 cup perhaps, of soy mince or textured vegetable
• a punnet of mushrooms
• bulky pasta - fusilli, rigatoni, ziti, or something similar
• salt and pepper
• other spices as you like

Shred the cabbage and parboil it for a few minutes, to soften. Drain it. Cook the pasta about half-way - stop a few minutes before you would if you were going to eat it directly. Drain it.

Assemble the casserole. Pasta on the bottom, then cabbage, then the sauce and such. Bake in a 160C oven for about half an hour.

Although this was pretty good, the next day, I added some more passata (tomato sauce) on top of the leftovers and baked it for another 10 or 15 minutes. My wife liked this even better, although at this point it is mutating from a casserole into a simple pasta dish with an esoteric sauce.