It’s Irish because we Irish say it is!! Happy St. Pat’s Day!
Great Story.
“Mock turtle coup”
...Better be wary of those ninja terrapins, lol
I like it whether it originated here or there.
Had it last night and left overs tonight !
Had some last night for supper. Made it in the slow cooker. Great comfort food to enjoy as the snow was falling outside the window.
My Dad’s side is Irish. We’ve always had what his Mom cooked... lamb stew and soda bread. Or, boiled ham with potatoes and cabbage. To be honest... we always joked that the Irish came to America to escape boring food! LOL!
Oh Really?
When I was growing up my mother cooked it every St. Patrick's Day and I never cared for it. When I was 10 and I saw the big pot boiling March 17, I shocked my mother by making spaghetti.
The joke in my family is that our ancestors came here from Ireland because in America they could find Italian women to marry who could cook for them. Otherwise we’d all have starved.
My mother would make it every year, just as pictures, with cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, boiled for hours. I do love the meal, but probably have not had it since childhood, due to no one I have lived with in my adulthood likes corned beef or cabbage.
Just got mine going in the crock pot. Last 4 or 5 times I made it in the crock pot, the corn beef was very tough. This time around I’m going to cook the crap out of it on high instead of low.
I’ve long been curious about the association of corned beef (served with cabbage, though that’s not the thing that matters) with St. Patrick’s Day. The Feast of Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland and Bishop of Armagh (as we in the East call the day when we’re feeling like trotting out full, glorious, Byzantine-style titles) invariably falls during Lent, when, until the Second Vatican Council our separated Latin brethren were forbidden from eating flesh-meats. Did the Irish church give a complete dispensation from fasting on the feast? (If so I then understand the association, since corned beef, being a preserved meat product, would have been conveniently available in the middle of the fast.)
A blessed Feast of Patrick, Enlightener of Ireland and Bishop of Armagh, to all.
Harumph. Next you’ll be telling me that Rice-a-roni isn’t Chinese.
People will always find ways to cordon themselves off from other people.
Cabbage is in regular rotation as a side dish on my grill because it’s simple, cheap and delicious ...
Cut a head of cabbage into 4-6 equal wedges
Drizzle melted butter onto the cut sides
Salt and pepper
Wrap in tinfoil and toss on the grill
An Irish friend, seeing the parallel, has renamed St. Patrick’s Day as “Cinco de Erin”.
Cinco de Mayo, “The Fifth of May”, is a pseudo-Mexican holiday which celebrates “El Día de la Batalla de Puebla” (The Day of the Battle of Puebla), and is almost entirely celebrated only in the US.
So why “Cinco de Erin?” Well, Erin means Ireland, and Fifth is the amount of whiskey someone might drink on the 17th of April.
Some people cook their vegetables alongside their corned beef, however steaming them apart gives them a cleaner flavor. This is important, because the Irish have a library full of sauces that taste great over vegetables.
For the vegetables:
Parsley sauce
Course mustard sauce
Guiness mustard sauce
Onion sauce
For the corned beef:
Dill pickle-horseradish sauce
Béarnaise sauce, though French, works for corned beef
Cream horseradish sauce
Went overseas for the first time in 2006, and being ignorant as to what food there would be available, I figured that when I got to Ireland I could at least have corned beef and cabbage. Wrong!! I never saw it on any menu the whole time I was there. Needless to say I was disappointed to find out that it wasn’t a regular food item in Ireland.