Boiled Dinner help needed (carrots, brown sugar, cayenne, mustard)

[geekduo]

Cabbage is abundant where we live and it's cheap to buy a huge head from the local farm stands. So I now have a head the size of a soccer ball and I bought a corned beef brisket to cook with it. What I need now is a good recipe to use that the kids might actually like. Please share one that you've used and like that has cabbage, carrots and brisket.
Thanks

[FLGAL76]

If you have a crockpot I would take the Corned Beef place it in there with the spice packet it should have came with and add your favorites like carrots, turnips or potatoes & your cabbage. I usually put everything in my crockpot except the cabbage I like to make my cabbage in a seperate pan by adding a little butter and cooked bacon with it. We like our cabbage with a little crunch and I have noticed if I put it in with everything in the crockpot it tends to get a little mushy. But, I really love using the crockpot with my corned beef comes out great everytime. Add your corned beef spice packet it came with some water to cover set it on low and cook most of the day. If your adding in your carrots or turnips then put them in as well. Hope that helps!

[geekduo]

Thanks FLGAL! That's sounds pretty much like what I was looking for. All the recipes I found had to be boiled on the stove all day. I was hoping for a version using the crockpot. I like your idea for the cabbage too, maybe the kids will eat it better if it's not so mushy.

[Vesper]

I don't know about boiled dinner but if you have an abundance of cabbage I like to use the inside filling for a beerock and a maindish.

1 head cabbage, sliced
1 lb gr. beef (or venison etc)
1 onion, sliced
2 potatos, cubed 1/2"
salt, pepper, cayenne

Cook beef until just brown, add onion and potato. Cover and continue cooking over medium heat until potato is almost tender, add salt pepper and cayenne to taste. Stir occasionally.

Add cabbage and cook covered about 5 min. Cabbage should be wilted. Remove cover, give pan a good mix and continue cooking another 5 min or until the juices are absorbed into the mix.

So good.

[7G9C4J2]

We find that store-bought corned beef is really salty, so when we crockpot it, we use more water than we generally do for meats. It needs the extra water to leach out some salt.

You can throw the veg in with the corned beast to crock all together, but it's easier to manage the exact degree of how cooked the veg gets if you crock the meat by itself, then decant off some of the cooking juices to cook your veg in on the stovetop. That way, your carrots, potatoes and cabbage all still get the benefit of the wealth of flavor from the meat, but you can be sure that they are still distinguishable as what they started out as, rather than turning out as amorphous lumps of mush in the bottom of the crockpot, which is what I always get if I crock the veg and meat together.

[Keeper]

After corned beef is cooked in crock pot, I take it out and smear mustard on top then sprinkle with brown sugar. Put in 300 oven until brown sugar melts. YUMMY


Not a boiled dinner but another way to make cabbage.. I make this sometimes in place of boiled cabbage with corned beef.

1/2 head of cabbage chopped -cut the core out
2 green peppers chopped in quarters
2 onions chopped in quarters
4-5 carrots 1/2" sliced
salt and pepper

Put green pepper, carrots and onions in large frying pan with a little oil over med heat. Cook stirring frequently for about 5 minutes. Add cabbage on top and cover, cook over low heat. Once cabbage has wilted, stir and continue cooking until cabbage and carrots are cooked.

[buckhead]

Parsnips...don't forget the parsnips.

[I LOVE PA!]

I always got my girls and my neices to eat corned beef by simply bragging about it's color.
What girl doesn't want to try PINK meat?

[BillyC64]

I am thinking about most kids nowadays and here's my suggestion. Cook the corned beef-an-cabbage the way you like it and serve it up with a big side order of Macnuggets and fries. After supper scrape the untouched cb-an-c off the kids plates into a plastic container and carry it to work tomorrow. Problem solved

[Davart]

Boiled dinner,

cabbage
smoked sausage
caraway seeds
potatoes
salt and pepper

I cook my in the garage ... for obvious reasons