Sauerkraut!

Ingredients:

1 cabbage
1 Tbls salt
1 large non aluminum bowl
Optional:
Caraway, black pepper corns, onion, hot pepper flakes, ginger, garlic, dill etc.  Be creative

Instructions:

Chop cabbage really thin.  Keep one leaf though to cover the top of the jar.  I used a mandolin.  If you don't have one, use a sharp knife, and cut thin.

Put all cabbage in the bowl and sprinkle with salt.  Massage the cabbage with your hands until the cabbage produces juice.  The salt brings out the juice of the cabbage.  The cabbage will shrink as well.  Continue to massage until there is a lot of liquid in the bottom of the bowl.  In a quart jar stuff the cabbage into it.  Press down and watch more juice appear.  Keep adding the rest of the cabbage, and press down until all the cabbage from the bowl is in the jar.  It will fit!  Add the juice from the bowl, and if there isn't enough, add water enough to cover the cabbage.  With that leaf that you saved at the beginning, fit it down in the jar over the shredded cabbage.  Then take another cup or something that will fit into the jar (I used a shot glass)  I then filled the shot glass with water.  Make sure whatever you use is glass.  Makes it easier if you use a wide mouth jar.  Then cover it with a lid and ring, not too tight as this is going to ferment, and you don't want the jar to explode.  Cover it with a tea towel, and put it in a cool dark place.  Check on it everyday, and make sure there is still liquid over the cabbage.  It will bubble and spill onto the towel.  This is normal.  I left mine for a week.

Sauerkraut is a good probiotic if you make your own.  This is fermented and is really good for your gut bacteria.  Enjoy!