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St. Patty's whatever
17 years ago
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It's been a fairly happy time around here, as I and everyone in the immediate family have clean bills of health now (in relative terms anyway - germs and such mentioned before are cleared up and nobody's in the hospital anymore)
I didn't wear green - I actually have very little green clothing period, but I did whip up a mess of corned beef and cabbage for the family. In Irish cooking tradition, I boiled the hell out it all. I actually messed it up a little - the corned beef was supposed to simmer for two and a half hours, and I misread the time and took it out about a half hour early. It came out fine, perhaps a little less tender than it would be if cooked longer. It was tasty, tastier than any food that sat in a pot of hot water for hours should be. Not bad for someone with next to no Irish roots at all (mostly German on both sides of my family I think)
I didn't wear green - I actually have very little green clothing period, but I did whip up a mess of corned beef and cabbage for the family. In Irish cooking tradition, I boiled the hell out it all. I actually messed it up a little - the corned beef was supposed to simmer for two and a half hours, and I misread the time and took it out about a half hour early. It came out fine, perhaps a little less tender than it would be if cooked longer. It was tasty, tastier than any food that sat in a pot of hot water for hours should be. Not bad for someone with next to no Irish roots at all (mostly German on both sides of my family I think)
Um... I don't think I've had corn beef and cabbage, is it anygood? >.> this question goes to any who want to answer, hehe.
Happy 17th of March!
You dont pinch skunks....EVER...
Thanks for making awesome artings Eric. :D
Anyway, I have to admit curiosity about the corn beef and cabbage. (It was always Jiggs' favourite meal, in "Bringing Up Father" aka "Maggie and Jiggs".) I know what cabbage is. An inoffensive leafy gree that I didn't mind as a kid, but after I was 40 or 45 realized was awfully bland and grew sick of. It has a reputation for smelling really bad while boiling. I've never noticed much of an odour at all, strangley.
But what sort of corned beef? I get the stuff in a can from Brazil or New Zealand. You could't boil it for five minutes -- it would turn into broth. At room temperature is barely more than mush shaped like a brick. I've seen cuts of meat that look a bit like a ham, but darker, that I think is called corned beef. (Though why two things would have that name, I don't know.) Is that what you boil? What happens if you fry it instead? (As I'd be inclined, if it were ham.) Does that make it American instead of Irish?