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I have a corn beef and cabbage dinner scheduled for Friday night. Not a big favourite of mine but the husband loves it. If I make a boiled dinner I prefer a smoked shoulder.
I usually make something along the lines of steak pie and colcannon potatoes for Saint Paddy's day. Growing up where I did, let's just nicely say I have dated my fair share of guys from Ireland. Corn beef and cabbage while good is not really Irish food. At least that's what they told me. I know maybe that's a little food snobbish of me so I apologize.
who cares if it is officially Irish, it is tradition and that is what counts in my book. BTW, who told you it isn't really Irish? There are a lot of things we eat here, that are not really culturally correct for any given country.
who cares if it is officially Irish, it is tradition and that is what counts in my book. BTW, who told you it isn't really Irish? There are a lot of things we eat here, that are not really culturally correct for any given country.
Oh whatever people like is ok with me. To be honest I just am not a big fan but we are having it for dinner tomorrow. I was just throwing out my useless two cents.
I was told by more then one Irish guy that they never had corn beef until they got here. Shrug not a huge deal but it gives me an excuse to make something else. Now colcannon potatoes, those are pretty darn awesome.
who cares if it is officially Irish, it is tradition and that is what counts in my book. BTW, who told you it isn't really Irish? There are a lot of things we eat here, that are not really culturally correct for any given country.
I always heard that the Irish in Boston picked up the corned beef from their Jewish neighbors. Don't know if that's just an urban legend or if there is any truth to it.
Only in the past did I learn that I have the teeniest bit of Irish blood--my geneaology-obsessed sister discovered that great-great-grandmother Mary was born in Dublin, then married my English great-great-grandfather before coming to New Jersey. But I still like to celebrate as if I'm really Irish!
My experience, having Irish-born and Scottish-born people in my family, is that "corned beef" can elicit a look of horror, because corned beef in the UK and in Ireland is often found in canned meat form, much like Spam. My Scottish BIL was horrified at the idea of a corned beef brisket dinner with cabbage and potatoes, until he saw it and ascertained that it wasn't a chunk of meat from a can.
Cattle, overall, are not nearly as commonly raised in Ireland as pigs and sheep, and fishing is a large industry as well, so it's no surprise that the more common meats are hams, pork sausages, mutton, lamb, and seafood. I don't recall chicken being abundantly served there, either, though chickens are commonly raised there for eggs.
We'll be having beef and Guinness stew,champ,Bailey's bread pudding...and Irish coffees
Do you have a recipe for this bailey's bread pudding you can share? BTW I have a coupon for $1.99 a lb. for corned beef, elsewhere it's $2.99 a pound. The sale prices used to be $1.49 -$1.99 per pound.
It is actually on sale this week at Aldi's for $1.99 a lb bit it is $6.99 at Fresh Market.
1.99lb is VERY cheap...
I cant buy it for that
I think the chains are taking a loss on that to get more customers in the store- like giving away thanksgiving turkeys below cost
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