Sunday, March 14, 2010
Corned Beef and Cabbage
This weekend we celebrated our Irish heritage by making a traditional meal of corned beef brisket, potatoes, carrots and cabbage. My maiden name is "Calkins" and I am descended from the Irish immigrants that settled in America during the great potato famine. The luck of the Irish indeed! Please enjoy a selection from the Irish folk rock band, The Corrs, while you put together the ingredients for this simple meal...
1 corned beef brisket (good sale prices abound around St. Patrick's Day)
red potatoes peeled and quartered
carrots peeled and cut into chunks
an onion quartered
a head of cabbage
red wine vinegar (instead of vinegar and some of the water, I've heard a bottle of Guiness gives good results)
Cover the bottom of a large crockpot with the potatoes, carrots and onion
Set the brisket on top of the veggies, add a few splashes of vinegar and enough water to come up around the brisket, sprinkle the contents of the brisket's included spice packet on top.
Cook all day on low or 5-6 hours on high.
core the cabbage and cut it into wedges
put it into a pot with some of the stock from the crockpot
Bring to boiling and steam until the cabbage is the consistency you enjoy.
Get a big platter, put the brisket on it surround by the vegetables, pour a little of the broth over everything. Serve with the extra broth and some Irish soda bread. I will find, test, and post a recipe for the bread at a later time.
Sláinte Mhaith!
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corn beef is the one meat (besides maybe bacon) that would hinder me from my vegan-ness.
ReplyDeletei'm seriously considering taking up the violin, and that's a sexy little fiddle she's got, wish i could see it better...i actually do not know what cut "brisket" is? it must be called something else here (surprise surprise)...this is a peppy assed song, suits perfectly the mood i'm in. Thanks! and now to google brisket and find out what it is, i guess you can tell i'm not irish
ReplyDeletehey why not? guitar, piano, harmonica, violin. And with garage band you could record tracks of your one woman band. Brisket...mmm will post another recipe at a later date of regular beef brisket (the non-brined variety). soooo goood.
ReplyDeletei confess what i would really like to play is the cello, but ach! look at the size of that beast? i would really need a bigger house, one with a music room.
ReplyDeletei like to listen to classical music when i am really depressed, then even music that i really love causes inner pain. but classical music doesn't, i think it is the absence of words to ill effect my wounded mind
i could use some corn beef right about now.