Recipe for Roasted Cabbage with Lemon

This Roasted Cabbage with Lemon is a perfect side dish for corned beef, but I'd eat it any time of year!

(For Phase One Fridays I highlight Phase One recipes from the past that have been my personal favorites.   This Roasted Cabbage with Lemon was first posted in March 2010, and I've made it many, many times since then.)

My friend Robin lives about 45 minutes away from Salt Lake, so sometimes when she has an early morning meeting she stays at my house. Last Friday was one of those nights, and since Robin loves cabbage I knew it would be a perfect time to test this recipe. I first spotted Roasted Cabbage with Lemon on a blog called Eat Repeat and bookmarked it to try, and then when I was talking to my friend Mary (another cabbage lover) she told me how she roasts red cabbage, so you can bet I'll be trying that soon as well.

Robin and I loved this roasted cabbage so much I made it again the very next day to take photos for the blog. If you like cabbage at all, I'm guessing you'll love it too. And if you're going to be cooking Corned Beef and Cabbage next week for St. Patrick's Day, I recommend cooking the cabbage this way and serving it with the corned beef.

South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-Up for February 2012

Effie's Easy and Amazing Cottage Cheese Salad with Za'atar was my favorite Phase One Recipe for February.

I'm so happy to see the calendar has flipped over to March.  And I don't care if we need the water in Utah, I'm voting for the start of spring-like weather!  We're going to be welcoming March with a new blog header featuring cabbage, created by my talented brother Rand, and of course when the month changes I share all the South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes I've found on other food blogs or posted on Kalyn's Kitchen the previous month.  Even though February is the month of chocolate and cookies, I managed to find a lot of tasty phase one ideas.   And for people who are interested in Phase One recipes, this month I started a new feature called Phase One Fridays where every Friday night I feature a Phase One recipe that's one of my personal favorites.

Spinach Salad Recipe with Bacon and Feta

I don't eat much bacon, but occasionally I splurge on something like this Spinach Salad with Bacon and Feta.

(Updated with better photos and added to Recipe Favorites in February 2012.) I think spinach salad is a beautiful thing. Not only does it taste fantastic, but according to The World's Healthiest Foods "Calorie for calorie, leafy green vegetables like spinach provide more nutrients than any other food."  Maybe that's why I don't feel too guilty for having a tiny bit of bacon in this salad, even though I normally don't eat much bacon.   The salad I made above for a dinner with my niece, her husband, and a friend had just one strip of pre-cooked bacon per serving.  We crisped the bacon in a pan and then blotted as much fat as we possibly could with a paper towel. Since the pre-cooked bacon only has three grams of fat per strip to begin with, I'm sure there wasn't more than a gram of fat left in the bacon we each consumed, a number I'm not too worried about.