Making corned beef and cabbage with potatoes for supper...anyone else making this for St. Patty's day?

Actually I will be making something similar, but not using corned beef, but rather using a brined picnic ham (shoulder) which is similar in taste to a bacon joint which was what was originally used for the traditional boiled dinner, along with carrots, parsnips and cabbage. Though most add the potatoes to the "boil", I prefer to serve "Champ" alongside the meat and vegetables. Irish soda bread will served too.

You damn guineas, it's Paddy, not Patty. Patty is a chick's name.


I'm cooking it tomorrow, making Shepard's pie (ground lamb) today. Made 2 loafs of Irish Soda Bread yesterday. Everything is headed to our neighborhood bar for a St. Paddy's Day party.

Threw one in the slow cooker an hour ago.

No, but I am hungry now !

St Patrick was not actually Irish. His exact birthplace and date is not known. However it is believed he was born around 375AD in Scotland. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, were Romans

That would qualify him as a guinea

It's still Paddy and not Patty, even for guineas.....

Ha ok Happy St. Paddy's Day!

St Patrick wasn't Irish - and neither is corned beef and cabbage. The dish was invented right here in New York City - by Irish immigrants, admittedly, but it was unknown in Ireland until then. And largely still is, btw.

Damn hicks!

More than one loaf is 'loaves'.

Ha you're killing me!

Looks great! We add extra Shillings Pickling Spices to our corned beef. Some people also add tomatoes, but we dont.

Made it last Sunday for supper. Had it as carry out today from Pat & Mike's Pub next to my office and having reuben sandwiches with Sundays leftovers for supper tonight. I can't get enough of the stuff!

Mike

Yeah, but when ironbender makes bread, he loafs.

I myself am no miracle worker, but I can loaf and fish.

Cuzz it ain't a sexuality thing.

I've never done it in a slow cooker. How do you do it?

I'll be doing corned beef & cabbage for the weekend. Too much going on today to put it together......one of my all-time favorite meals!

No white onion sauce ?

Seriously though, ah YUM !

The brisket I got at the store was quite a bit more fat than that. Is that a factor of the cut?

My favorite thing about Saint Patrick's day and corned beef and cabbage, is using the leftovers to make homemade corned beef hash.

Throw it in the cooker, pour water a few of inches above the meat, throw in flavor packet (my meat came from Costco), cover and run on high for five hours. Throw in the potatoes (~2 1/2" diameter reds and whites halved) and cabbage for another two hours, stick a fork in a spud, continue or drop to warm and eat when it's time.

That's my plan. How do you make it?

I just cut up all the leftover corned beef, potatoes and carrots into small cubes, fry it in a cast iron fry pan until it's a little crisp on the bottom, then I crack eggs over the top of it, cover it and let them cook in the steam. That's how my dad made it.

Good hash requires some light cream! You can't blame the Italians for wanting to be Irish. Think I'll make me a suprasod boiled dinner! In a crock pot! On the wood stove!

The Shanty Micks ate mutton. The Lace Micks ate lamb. After my father graduated WW11, he never had mutton again. I don't remember having much lamb, but there always some venison to be had.

Had corned beef and cabbage …..tacos at Smokey Joe's, the other nite.

I had corned beef and cabbage last Sat. and on St. Paddy's day I had a Guiness beef stew at the restaurant where our band (Bucket's O'Blarney) played. Corned beef and cabbage wasn't invented by the Irish Immigrants in NYC it was actually a Jewish dish that the Irish adopted because it was an inexpensive meal. Both ethnic groups often lived in the same neighborhoods in NYC.

For a more realistic Irish meal, prepare shepard's pie, bangers and mash, or even fish and chips.

The cut I use is a flat the fat cap is rendered and the the remainder trimmed off when slicing
I never have enough left for hash

We did Shepard's pie on St. Paddy's day but I have the corned beef cooking today.

I'm with Dan, I haven't figured out how to have enough to make hash with.

It's just not St. Patrick's Day without corned beef and cabbage! I actually picked my own cabbage from the garden this year!

My wife and my hunting partner's wife both had things to go to last night, so I fixed supper for him and me. I just covered the corned beef (flat cut) with water, dumped in the seasoning packet, brought it to a boil, and then simmered it for 2 1/2 hours. I halved both some small red potatoes and some small russets and boiled them with some carrot chunks. Steamed some cabbage wedges. Let the corned beef sit on the cutting board (covered with aluminum foil) for about fifteen minutes, then sliced it. Set it all on the table with a couple of bottles of St. Pauli Girl. Neither of us could find a great deal wrong with the meal.

Just finished up the last of it for dinner tonight... In the words of Jethro Bodine: Mighty fine vitals !

While I totally agree with Mr. Bodine's sentiment, I believe that he is overstating things just a bit to declare corned beef and its accompaniments absolutely essential to life.

Vital vittles, John. Vital vittles.

Not going to trash you on your spelling, just say that when I was in the Army, in Vietnam, I always tried to keep some canned corned beef and some Crackers around. Made a pretty decent meal when other things were absent. I remember on my 21st Birthday and I had had a few drinks, when the key strip that opened the can broke. I cut my hand pretty good trying to finish opening that thing. Lots of blood, but it did not stop the party. miles

Coop, you're probably right about CB&C being a Jewish dish. Instead of "invented" I should have said adopted by the New York Irish. Thanks for the welcome correction.

LOL--- Vittles, vitals, toe-mate-ohs or toe-mot-oes. Sorry for the spelling error.

Miles, When I was a kid, I'd take off with my .22 for the hills a week at a time. A few cans of pork and beans, some spam and corned beef was all a 14 year kid needed to survive.

I miss those fun filled days !

Growing up my dad made that every St. Patty's Day (Even though Italian American, not Irish American). Sometimes I do, too. Love the stuff. Low and slow makes it great.