Be excellent to each other! (serve coleslaw)

If Bill and Ted have taught us anything its that Genghis Khan likes Twinkies. The other possibly more important thing they have taught us is a philosophy, a moto to live ours lives by... "Be excellent to each other".

The way I choose to honor this motto might not be how you'd imagine, I don't badger people in the streets to give me their money for charity or play guitar at the orphanage. What I do is simple, I make coleslaw, a lot of coleslaw. Whenever and where ever I can for anyone and everyone that's hungry for every meal that would be sorry not to have it. It is my duty and my pleasure.

On its own you could say slaw is boring, but without it a meal could be lost. It can be the sharpener for pulled pork or the perfect extinguisher for my spicy jerk chicken. To me it enhances a meal, be it grilled fish, slow cooked pork or fiery chicken.

There is one rule I have about eating slaw, you must have it with hot sauce. There is something about the hot chilli sauciness mixing with the crisp, raw, coolingness that is a match made in heaven. Let's just say I am a fan, in fact as I write this I am consuming coleslaw, ahh you might say, but you are writing about slaw so of course you are eating it to remind yourself of its beauty, but the chances are I'd be eating it anyway, I keep the cabbage industry going single handedly. 

Let's get down to the nitty gritty...

The ingredients:

• 1 tbsp cider vinegar
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 4/5 tbsp mayonnaise 
• 2 carrots
• half a red cabbage
• 1 tsp suger
• 1 onion (very optional)

Grate the carrot and the cabbage in a decent sized bowl. Most recipes say to finely chop the cabbage but I like the cabbage grated so that I don't get long bits falling off my fork. Next finely chop the onion and chuck it in with the carrot and cabbage. I actually think slaw is better without raw onion, it means you dont have that repeating, overpowering taste in your mouth for the rest of the day and you get even more refreshing, crisp coleslaw.

Once you have the veg mixed in a bowl nows the time to add the magic ingredients, cider vinegar, olive oil, suger and finally the mayonnaise. If you are mad about mayo then give the mixture a taste and by all means add a little more than 5 tablespoons, it's your coleslaw!

Give it all a good mix and voila, you have a cool, fresh, delicious side that almost any meal would be lucky to have.

Coleslaw is more than just a side dish, it is the ultimate finishing touch. It is the Mona Lisa's smile or Stone Cold Steve Austin winning a wrestling match with a Stone Cold Stunner. 

I am evangelical about slaw, I love it and everyone should be knocking this up at home for friends and family, remember "Be excellent to each other". Amen Bill and Ted!