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St. Patrick's day is almost upon us (this thursday, in fact)!

Share your favorite way to make corned beef!

Here's mine:

Small head of cabbage, cut into 8ths, bout 2 cups water
corned beef, fat side up, with the spice packet rubbed on it. Then coat the top of THAT with yellow mustard & brown sugar.

Slow cook in an oval crockpot for 8 hrs on low.

Serve with a nice irish stout. :thumbsup:

Now I'm hungry again!!!:laughing:

twall said:

St. Patrick's day is almost upon us (this thursday, in fact)!

Share your favorite way to make corned beef!

Here's mine:

Small head of cabbage, cut into 8ths, bout 2 cups water
corned beef, fat side up, with the spice packet rubbed on it. Then coat the top of THAT with yellow mustard & brown sugar.

Slow cook in an oval crockpot for 8 hrs on low.

Serve with a nice irish stout. :thumbsup:

Now I'm hungry again!!!:laughing:

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Fat side down, braise the corned beef then turn, cover with water and simmer for 30 minutes. Add 2 small onions and 2 cloves garlic, simmer for 30 mintues add cabbage and potatoes cover and turn heat to low for 1 hour. Add salt and fresh ground black pepper.
I perfer a german double bock, "Spaten Optimator". Truly a fine beer. You will pour you Guiness in the cats bowl after tasting it:licking:
Hey! what does this have to do with lawnmowers?

RobertBrown said:

.....Hey! what does this have to do with lawnmowers?

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Nothing. That's why it's posted in 'the front porch', and not 'general mower discussion' :biggrin:

I have a thread, there, too.....and it DOES concern mowers........

I don't eat much corned beef but when we do it is done up with a ton of veggies and stuff, all types, potatoes, carrots, cabbage and turnip. Yum, this is starting to sound good!

monica123 said:

I don't eat much corned beef but when we do it is done up with a ton of veggies and stuff, all types, potatoes, carrots, cabbage and turnip. Yum, this is starting to sound good!

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Only time I have corned beef is on my home made Reuben sandwiches!!!!

Y'all making me hungry now stop it.:laughing:
Some good corned beef and some taters and onions with little green peas mixed in is pretty tasty.

Kingwood990 said:

Y'all making me hungry now stop it.:laughing:
Some good corned beef and some taters and onions with little green peas mixed in is pretty tasty.

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Does any know how the term "corned beef" came into use?

Back in the days before we had refrigerators and freezers, butchers would pack beef and pork in salt for preservation. At one time "corn" referred to the corns of coarse salt granules packed around the meat.

Does anyone care?

JDgreen said:

Only time I have corned beef is on my home made Reuben sandwiches!!!!

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That's what I do with the leftovers! (If there are any....last few years I've had to buy corned beef from the deli afterward.....to go with the cabbage......always run out of beef before I run out of cabbage.....)

Goodness, I haven't had corned beef in years, not since my gran was alive. She used to make it quite a bit for Sunday dinner.

HEY ALL...my wife and I picked up half a dozen corned beef briskets at the store today...got a 4-pounder cooking in the oven right now, might stay up until midnight to sample it...

JDgreen said:

HEY ALL...my wife and I picked up half a dozen corned beef briskets at the store today...got a 4-pounder cooking in the oven right now, might stay up until midnight to sample it...

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YIKES! Hope they were on sale! Jeez, you say you only eat it on reubens, then you get SIX?!?!? Making up for lost time, or this thread make you hungry? :licking::wink:

Midnite would technically be St. Patty's, so I suppose it's legal.......

twall said:

YIKES! Hope they were on sale! Jeez, you say you only eat it on reubens, then you get SIX?!?!? Making up for lost time, or this thread make you hungry? :licking::wink:

Midnite would technically be St. Patty's, so I suppose it's legal.......

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Normally for me just on reubens, but the front page of the local Meijers sale flyer for this week has flat cut corned beef briskets for $1.99 a pound. Wife wants to make a bunch of them in the crock pot so....

Yes this thread made me hungry....:laughing:

JDgreen said:

Normally for me just on reubens, but the front page of the local Meijers sale flyer for this week has flat cut corned beef briskets for $1.99 a pound. Wife wants to make a bunch of them in the crock pot so....

Yes this thread made me hungry....:laughing:

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Just sampled ours in a crock pot.......MMAAAAAAAANNNNNNN is that GOOD!

That IS cheap.....I woulda bought six, too.....:smile:

twall said:

Just sampled ours in a crock pot.......MMAAAAAAAANNNNNNN is that GOOD!

That IS cheap.....I woulda bought six, too.....:smile:

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Got a 4 pounder cooking in the crock pot with cabbage, onions, taters, carrots, etc. Smells so good...but have to wait a few more hours till it's all tender.

twall said:

Just sampled ours in a crock pot.......MMAAAAAAAANNNNNNN is that GOOD!

That IS cheap.....I woulda bought six, too.....:smile:

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Whoever invented the crock pot did us househusbands a big favor, since the wife works full time I do almost all the meal preparations...my step mom got me this book for Christmas a few years back: "Five-Ingredient Slow Cooker Recipes". Sure have had some great meals from it.