Guess what I'm making for St Patty's Day

[The empressof all]

TJ's had Corned Beef Rounds from Niemans Ranch. (Prion free-cross your fingers and pray---Then again I, like Denny Crane probably already have mad-cow....or maybe it's menopause :shrug: ) I've only made CB Briskets before. This is like a little roast. I have never seen these before. I thought Corned Beef was always done with the brisket.

I get to cook a brand new kind of food today in my crock pot. I'm all Pherklempt. (I know it doesn't take much to get me going)


So what are you making to celebrate... and how do you cook your corned beef.

I add a a bottle of beer to the water in the crock pot. I've also had very good luck cooking the brisket in the oven, double wrapped in foil, with a bottle of beer.

[grasswire]

1. rounds are great....

...but I rarely see them anymore.

I use the classic Good Housekeeping Cookbook recipe for simmering corned beef. It includes:

a sliced bell pepper
a quartered onion
garlic
couple of celery stalks
couple of carrots
a handful of parsley
a few whole cloves
a pinch of peppercorns
water to cover

I usually cook it for about five hours on top of the stove.

These days, I serve it with colcannon, a British Isles dish made from smashed boiled new potatoes, crispy bacon, green onion, and sliced cabbage that has been sauteed in the bacon fat until lightly browned, also butter and cream.

[Shakespeare]

2. We're having colcannon.

I stray just a bit from the traditional by including bits of carmelized onion and some grated white (Irish, of course) cheddar.

And beer, of course.

[babylonsister]

3. In honor of corned beef and St. Pat!

[eleny]

4. Corned beef in the pressure cooker

Corned beef with the seasonings from the packet, 4 cups of water - pressure cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes, then let it sit covered until the pressure is out.

I'll steam the cabbage wedges separately. This morning, I made potato salad. New red potatoes, vinegar, fresh parsley, black pepper and mayo.

Rye bread on the side.

I've never seen the rounds. Let us know how you liked them! I bet they're so tender.

[politicat]

5. Bacon and potatoes.

Floury potato boxty (think potato pancakes made half and half with mashed potatoes and fresh, grated potatoes with onion) and bacon sandwiches with tomato. Green salads.

No green beer, no corned beef (which is really an American food), and no cabbage (but only because He to Whom I have Yoked Myself dislikes it intensely.)

The Irish poor (in other words, most of them) could not have afforded corned beef until after the immigrations, because beef is expensive to raise in Ireland.

Then we're going to a whiskey tasting/benefit.

[The empressof all]

6. Oooooh Potato boxty

I've never heard of this. Sounds wonderful. Do you have instructions?

[politicat]

8. I put the recipe in a separate thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=236&topic_id=19215&mesg_id=19215

It's just easier to deal with long-term.

They're a traditional dish, dating back to the early 17th century as far as anyone can tell - basically, as soon as potatoes arrived in Ireland, someone ended up with leftovers to be dealt with. They are definitely a leftovers dish.

There are more recipes than there are cooks, too. This is the one my family uses but we always were lace curtain Irish, though not Protestant. (The family story is that the reason the X-great-grandparents immigrated is that they got religion and turned Temperance, and couldn't deal with the family business... a pub. Then they did turn Protestant when they moved to the midwest because all the neighbors were Protestant, and if they wanted to have friends...)

The drinking side of the family's mixture has cream as the binder, doesn't have egg or sour cream, and they dip it in an egg wash and roll in flour before frying in about a half-inch of fat. (That recipe clogs my arteries just to look at it.) They eat that one with eggs and sausages, usually in the morning (after a making a night of it).

[NMDemDist2]

7. I had Sonics burgers

We closed the store for the final time today and had to organize everthing to start hauling it out.

Cooking was out of the question tonight.

and even though I'm Irish, I am also deathly allergic to cabbage so I never get to have the traditional St Patty's feast

Hope you enjoyed yours! :hi: