Making Corned Beef and Cabbage today!

[bicentennial_baby]

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This is the only dish I will eat cabbage in, ever. But it's so yummo. :9

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[blue neen]

1. I made it yesterday, and it was delicious.

I cooked the corned beef brisket for about 3 hours on Friday evening, skimmed the fat off yesterday morning, and took off from there.

I added a little bit of fresh parsley chopped up. Mmm...looked pretty and tasted great.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. I likes stuffed cabbage

stuffed with rice/lamb

more lebanese than irish

but washed down with a Harp's Lager ...

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[TZ]

3. Ugh.

I know this is an Irish thing but having grown up in a Jewish household I find that S+R (sick and wrong per temeah).
Corned Beef should only be eaten with mustard on rye bread..Anything else is SACRILEDGE.;)

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I'm not even Irish!

Just assimilating into the Beantown thang... :rofl:

[mondo joe]

8. Mmm. I like both.

I'm a newbie to corned beef and cabbage. The first time I had it was at a friend's house, where it was being cooked. To be helpful I started breaking apart the cabbage in the pot. My friends found what I'd done - to their horror! - and then we had to try to reassemble the cabbage head sections.

[Bluzmann57]

14. Hey, I'm part Irish

and the way you eat corned beef is the only way to eat it as far as I'm concerned. Neither know nor care whether it's Jewish, Irish, Iowan or whatever, just know it's pretty good that way. Corned beef and cabbage sucks!

[Tracer]

5. I ran into an Irish friend at the grocery yesterday, and ...

... while talking about corned beef, she said that in her part of Ireland, they don't eat corned beef, but cook "bacon", potatoes, and cabbage in the pressure cooker! Yecchh.


She did try to elaborate on the "bacon" and said it was "ham", but couldn't really explain what kind of ham.

[bicentennial_baby]

6. yes, Sniffa was telling me that his Irish former co-worker

said that they don't eat it in Ireland. Something about how when the Irish came to America, bacon was too expensive, so they switched to beef.

[mondo joe]

9. True. Cabbage and bacon is purportedly the authentic dish. Italians have a similar

dish - big chunks of bacon cooked in basically sauerkraut.

[yvr girl]

7. You don't like cabbage rolls?

They're totally yummy.

Hi. :hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

10. I'm cabbage-averse

:P

For some odd reason, I can eat it in this dish. :shrug:

Hey you!! :hi:

[yvr girl]

11. Life treating you well?

I'm good except for this damn cold. Cough syrup with codeine makes me glad to be Canadian.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Ha! I'm sorry you're sick sweetie...

So far I've dodged the winter illnesses *fingers crossed*

:hug:

I am well, on Spring Break, but I'll be spending the week in the library. Many research papers to work on. x(

But, I was selected by our Dept Chair to represent the Econ Dept at my University's Welcome Day next month, and I'm super excited for that! :D

:)

[mdmc]

13. Us too!

We got the corned beef from Aldi www.aldi.us
We are also making Irish brown bread from a 4 generation old recipe:toast:

[Cabcere]

15. I'm going to have to settle for corned beef hash today

They had it at the cafeteria, and since I don't really have cooking facilities (slash the time to prepare proper corned beef & cabbage), that's probably the closest I'm going to get. *sigh* It wasn't too bad, though. :hi:

[Tektonik]

16. You don't like kraut, coleslaw, or chopped cabbage in fish tacos?

:o

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Me too!

It is the quintessential Irish-American dish. From what I've read the Irish do have a long tradition of eating corned beef but at Easter, and it wasn't the center of the table item because it was too expensive -- a small tin of it was more likely. Cabbage and fatty preserved pork was more typical. Even in my father's first generation Irish-American neighborhood they were more likely to make it with a pork shoulder rather than beef. My father still makes it that way, never with corned beef.

Being the bad daughter that I am, I make it with corned beef and this year I'm adding a few turnips. I don't plan on telling him. ;-)

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Sniffa adds turnips too

So you really don't add your cabbage until 30 minutes before the end?

[Gormy Cuss]

24. Yep, give or take a few minutes.

But I like cabbage to taste like cabbage. You're probably better off with the longer cooking time to mellow out the texture and flavor (you will get more of an odor, but what the heck, it's tradition.)

on edit: I cook the cabbage until it's just done and don't let it stew. Smaller cabbage quarters take about 20 minutes, giant quarters more like 45-50 minutes.

[Taverner]

18. Sounds Irish

is it?

[bicentennial_baby]

21. Kinda, see post 5,6,9

:)

[hippywife]

19. I miss corned beef.

:cry:

Not too many things I haven't been able to replace in the husband's (mostly but not strictly) vegetarian diet. That is one I really miss alot.

[Forkboy]

22. gee, thanks for the invite.

:cry:

:P

I got ya beat...I had it last week! Yummy yummy in my tummy. :)

[bicentennial_baby]

23. Awwww, I haven't even started cooking yet!

There's still time! :D

[Forkboy]

25. On my way!

I'm walking so keep some warm for me. :)

[femmocrat]

26. So am I!

This is the first time I ever tried it in the slow cooker. It has been cooking since 9 am. The house is filled with the "fragrance" of the cabbage. LOL

Plus... it makes great leftover sandwiches (minus the cabbage, of course) the second day!

Bon apetit! :hi:

[femmocrat]

32. Recipe review: 5 spoons!

It turned out great in the slow-cooker! The corned beef just fell apart when I cut it. It was excellent. I added a cup of apple juice at the beginning, maybe that is why it was so tender.

[sniffa]

33. We made it in the slow cooker last year

This year, we're making it in a pot. We're going to remove all/most of the vegetables in about 15 minutes because they're done, and add the cabbage. The meal "should" be done at 8 p.m. so we'll add the veggies back in some short time before then.

[Ikonoklast]

27. And tomorrow, your co-workers will know it!

Take that, cube rats!!



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[sniffa]

28. heh

I'm now for the first time in my career, a cube rat. We moved to a smaller office where my huge office (that I shared with 2 people) has been traded in for a cube just big enough to accommodate my large frame. They will definitely know tomorrow, not just because of me, but because of my heating the leftovers in the microwave.

[sniffa]

29. UPDATE

Slightly over 2 hours in, the house smells f'n scrumptious. :9

[Chovexani]

30. Nom nom nom

I'm makin' some tomorrow, the way my mom did.

She always makes it for St. Paddy's Day, but with cornbread. She says "it's 'cause we're Black Irish". :rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

31. !

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:loveya: