Bacalhau com todos - Portuguese boiled cod fish meal

This is our family traditional Christmas day meal. It is like a boiled dinner of sorts but with dry cod fish. As plain and simple this is, I absolutely love it and if I were to find dry cod fish more easily here I would certainly make it more often. Now I realize that this is not for everyone as dry cod fish has a strong smell and taste, so you MUST love fish. There are many other dry cod fish recipes, such as the Pasteis de Bacalhau that are a better way to be introduced to it as the taste is much more mellow than this one. Still a favorite here at home amongst adults and children so I had to post it.

INGREDIENTS

(this time I am not going to add measurements as it all depends how many you are cooking for)
Dry / salt cod fish
Potatoes
Onion
Cabbage
Eggs
salt to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. The day before place the cod fish in a large bowl and fill it with water  
2. Change waters to the cod fish every hour
3. At night time remove the last water, mix water and milk together and leave the cod fish in the fridge
4. Pour water into a pan and place the cod fish inside
5. In another pan place all other ingredients and cover them with water
6. Add salt to taste
7. Serve all of the ingredients in the same tray
8. On your plate mix extra virgin olive oil, a tad of paprika and minced garlic, mix it well then place a little of each ingredient over it and drizzle with a little olive oil