Do you have corned beef and cabbage on St Patrick's Day?

[exitseven]

I get it have this once a year. My wife says it is too fatty and has way too much sodium. It is one of my favorite meals.

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[TrueConfection]

Definitely! I don't make the one pot supper that the New Englanders make though. I cook the corned beef in a pot of water with onions and spices for hours until it's falling apart. Then I glaze it and put it in the oven.

I make a spicy creamed cabbage dish to go on the side along with corn. I bake fresh Irish soda bread from scratch.

If we are having extra people over, I'll make colcannon as well as an extra loaf of bread.

Dessert is always shamrock shakes (mint oreo shakes with whipped cream on top and garnished).

[exitseven]

@TrueConfection I never had it like that. We always do the one pot meal with potatoes, carrots and onions.

[TrueConfection]

Come on over X7!!!

[TrueConfection]

Thank you for the MHO ❤

[purplepoppy]

Only time I buy corned beef is if I'm making a corned beef and potato pie.

[MrCommodore]

Game of Thrones style pies rule

[exitseven]

Oddly enough I bet it would be good right out of the oven,

[DizzyDesii]

I didn't know that was a thing. Corned beef? Like what is that even? But as for cabbage (which would look cooked/pulled apart and not like that in the pic), i just started eating that last new years so i wouldn't mind starting that tradition on St Patricks

[exitseven]

Corned beef is a roast beef that is cured in brine and other things. It is generally s little fatty. It is usually cooked in a pot with cabbage, potatoes , carrots and onions.

[DizzyDesii]

Ahh okay our cabbage has smoked turkey legs or occasionally hamhocks. I’ve yet to try carrots nor beef in cabbage

[LiamSawyer]

Corned beef is usually but not always made from the flat portion of a beef brisket. It is wet cured in a mixture of water, salt, sugar, curing salt, pickling spices for about a week to ten days. The liquid mixture is boiled to bloom the spices prior to putting the meat into it. Once it's altogether including the meat in a food grade plastic container with the lid secured in place, it's put in the fridge for 7 to 10 days turning the meat every day or two. This is corned beef to make pastrami you fo the same thing but cost it in black pepper and smoke it. Montreal smoked beef is done much the same but is also smoked.

[DizzyDesii]

@LiamSawyer pickling spices... will it taste/smell vinegary?

[LiamSawyer]

No, there is no vinegar used.

[DizzyDesii]

@LiamSawyer oh okay I just asked because you said pickling spices and i hate pickles and their vinegar taste/smell so i’m just wondering how do pickling spices differ

[LiamSawyer]

It's just a variety of very flavorful spices that can be bought together under the name pickling spices, I personally have never used them to make pickles. Corned beef sandwiches are a specialty found at Jewish Deli's.

[DizzyDesii]

@LiamSawyer oh then i shall try. Thank you :D

[NamerOfStars]

I inherited my traditions more directly, from ancestors who actually CAME from Ireland- for me, it's bacon and cabbage (the American substitution of corned beef came from the majority of American deli owners being Jewish)- and actually, these days it's usually bacon and cauliflower, since cooking cabbage smells awful.

I'm not opposed to adding in some corned beef, though; once or twice, I even headed down to Manny's, famed for their corned beef, which is served in the kind of sandwich you need to dislocate your jaw like a snake to eat properly. There are parts of Chicago I truly miss.

[midnightmoon05]

We all enjoy the NY style Irish tradition in our Chinese family. It has been our family tradition as long as I recall when my brother started the tradition.
We would have dinner at his place. He would make corned beef with cabbages. I will suggested carrots.
we now make two pieces because it shrinks and our family have grown. I also like to bring home some left overs.

[exitseven]

Yes, it does shrink. We use a pressure cooker but it still shrinks.

[Chazmatazz269]

These kinds of shares are horrifying if you think much about them, really.
How do you think the internet would react if a woman said she doesn’t get to eat what she wants because her husband said it’s no bueno?
I’ve had corned beef and cabbage, but it wasn’t my taste especially.

[Lliam]

Yes. I realize that corned beef is not an Irish tradition. But, just like turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving, I enjoy corned beef, cabbage and colcannon on St. Patrick's Day. It's an Irish-American tradition.

In Ireland, they tend toward lamb or bacon. But their bacon is more like what we call ham.

[AviatorTom]

Some years, my SO and I go to an Irish pub for St Patty's Day and of course, we get corned beef and cabbage. I'm not sure we'll do that this year though... too many things going on.

[JustinTheGreat]

I’ve never tried it to be honest. Never looked appealing to me. I used to be an Irish dancer for 10 years so I would do performances at several saint patty’s day events a year.
the SMELL of being around corn-beef and cabbage was always gross to me lmao.
however I’ll try anything once, so I’m not opposed to trying a bite. But never had the desire to order it for myself

[Iron_Man]

You try to find it, but it’s mostly not around

[exitseven]

yes, it is not in the stores. Last Thanksgiving it looked like turkeys might be scarce but at the last minute they magically showed up in the supermarkets. Maybe the same thing will happen with corned beed the closer we get to St Patricks day.

[Iron_Man]

I’m talking about the restaurants on actual St. Patrick’s Day

[exitseven]

Oh, I am sure the local place we frequently visit will have it

[888theGreat]

No , but I usually watch Hoss and the leprichauns Bonanza episode. I wear green a lot anyway

[exitseven]

I liked that episode.

[comekitty]

No, I don't care for it so much.

Irish soda bread, tho is a big yes!

[jamesgoldman]

No, I'll make a beef and Guinness pie, casserole or cobbler and wash it down with Irish whiskey

[OlderAndWiser]

No, I am not a fan of boiled cabbage. FYI. . .

[MrCommodore]

No, that's an American thing for St Patricks say. In Ireland Cabbage and bacon is actually more traditional, although not really as a meal on St Patrick's day.

[JustinTheGreat]

Is it true that St. Pattys day isn’t as big in Ireland? I always heard that was primarily an American thing

[MrCommodore]

@JustinTheGreat No it is big here, like every major town and City has parades/festival, it is more of a religious day in Ireland, but many people usually go to the pub after church to "Drown the Shamrock" and then watch the parades.

I think the religious part of it is fading in recent decades though, but still huge globally.

[JustinTheGreat]

Oh okay, interesting. Yeah I think religious meaning of all holidays has been slowly fading away. Not that i personally care, Im not religious myself. So I’ve always ignored religious meaning behind holidays anyway

[LiamSawyer]

I have had it in the past but your wife is right it has way too much sodium and I'm trying to keep my blood pressure low.

[exitseven]

Yeah, but once a year on St Patricks day and I can have bacon when I go on vacstion.

[Red_Arrow]

It is too fatty and has too much sodium. But it is delicious and once a year is not that bad for you.

[EmmaMary]

Corn beef and mustard or tomato sandwiches... Perfect!

[Razp_Sorbet]

God I wish. Corned beef is so expensive

[exitseven]

@Razp_Sorbet I am wondering if we will be able to find it in the store the way things have been going.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I love cabbage, but I've never had corned beef before.

[RobT312]

Yes, have Irish in me so i celebrate the day with food and beer

[BCRanger10]

Not this year. It's on a Friday during Lent.

[Fuentes]

Never had it before in my life lol what type of meat is it, I don't eat red anymore.

[Sparkie460]

Yes we do. We love corned beef and cabbage.

[CrimsonAngel09]

Heck yeah!

[Wise4myage]

Yes, and so delicious.

[gorydetails]

I will probably make one.

[Jamie05rhs]

Not every year, but I have some years!

[msc545]

nah... although corned beef sounds nice!