Cabbage, yes! Corned beef, no! I'm trying a new recipe...

[Phentex]

pork tenderloin on the stove cooked in beer with an onion topping and gravy. The meat was seared in a little oil and chili oil combo. Seasoned with lemon pepper and marjoram.

Smells good so far.

What's your St. Patrick's Day dinner?

:hi:

[yellerpup]

1. That sounds delicious!

Mr. Pup is half Italian-half Irish and he likes his corned beef for St. Paddy's Day. We are having corned beef stewed with baby carrots and steamed cabbage along with oven fried (in duck fat) tiny Yukon gold potatoes. A fresh loaf of Guinness-molasses bread just came out of the oven, and for dessert orange-dried cherry-chocolate chip scones with sliced, fresh strawberries. No, we will not be going out tonight. Too many amateur drunks on the streets!

Have fun! :hi:

[Phentex]

3. I'm thinking of mashing some potatoes...

I feel like we've been eating a lot of potatoes lately and I'm running out of ways to fix them. But nobody tires of mashed potatoes.

Your dinner sounds great!

[yellerpup]

5. I never get tired of mashed potatoes.

I have grown so super-intolerant of cow's milk, though, that I can only enjoy them if I make them with goat yogurt or goat milk. Soy is out (thyroid issues) and the nut milks taste too sweet to me, but gimme mashed any day. They should go great with that rich pork and onion gravy you are making! Bon appetit!

[grasswire]

6. do you know about colcannon?

from Wikipedia:

Colcannon is traditionally made from mashed potatoes, kale or cabbage, butter, salt, and pepper. It can contain other ingredients such as milk, cream, leeks, onions, chives, garlic, boiled ham or Irish bacon. At one time it was a cheap, year-round staple food,<1> though it is usually eaten in autumn/winter, when kale comes into season.<2>

An old Irish Halloween tradition was to serve colcannon with prizes of small coins concealed in it, as the Irish and English do with Christmas pudding.

Welsh cawl cennin, despite the somewhat similar sound of the expression, is etymologically unrelated to colcannon, meaning "leek soup", literally "broth (of) leeks."<3> Welsh cawl can also mean "gruel"; the usual word for "cabbage" is bresych, so the Welsh equivalent of Irish cál ceannfhionn would be bresychen benwen.

The song "Colcannon", also called "The Skillet Pot", is a traditional Irish song that has been recorded by many artists, including Mary Black.<4> It begins:

Did you ever eat Colcannon, made from lovely pickled cream?
With the greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream.
Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the melting flake
Of the creamy, flavoured butter that your mother used to make?

The chorus goes:

Yes you did, so you did, so did he and so did I.
And the more I think about it sure the nearer I'm to cry.
Oh, wasn't it the happy days when troubles we had not,
And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot.

[yellerpup]

8. I thought I knew colcannon until....

I read your post! I spent the afternoon yesterday with my Irish neighbor. We went on a 4-1/2 mile ramble and stopped at a grocer at the halfway point so she could pick up a piece of corned beef. I can hear her voice quite clearly in "The Skillet Pot." I'm going to ask her to sing it for me when I see her next week. My SIL has Welsh ancestors (such a lovely woman) and I bet she would like to have this information, too. What a nourishing dish it is,not just for body but for soul as well. You know it's a soul food because it has it's own song. Thanks! :hug:

[grasswire]

15. the song just cracked me up

God love the Irish. I hope your friend can sing it for you.

[yellerpup]

16. She's one of 17 (in the middle) and her father was

a wonderful musician. I will ask her his instrument. She has spoken of how her family congregated on Sundays and spent the time making music and I have had the joy of her teaching me of song and a bit of Gaelic (if only I could retain it) so I would put money on it that she knows the colcannon song. The song cracks me up, too. I'll let you know. :hi:

[Denninmi]

2. Um, sweet and sour meatballs with pineapple, onion, green peppers.

Assembled them last night, just have to thrown them in to cook through when I get home.

I guess I wasn't feeling very Irish.

Actually, I bought the corned beef, but I'm the only one that really likes it, so I'll just cook it this weekend and save most of it to make lunches for work next week.

[Phentex]

4. That sounds good, too!...

I've made cb for the family before but it wasn't a big hit. The pork was something I already had.

[grasswire]

7. I have never thought of making that for supper

It sounds scrumptious!

We like to make egg fu yung. The meatballs would be good with that and some rice, of course.

[Phentex]

13. I mentally filed this myself...

thinking it would be good with rice. I think my boys would love this.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Pork's a more traditional Irish meat, although it would be smoked.

I'm making a straight up Irish American feast with corned beef & vegetables, but my soda bread is more typical of an Irish brown bread (whole wheat flour, oats, caraway but no currants or raisins.)

[Phentex]

11. I skimped on the bread...

they had leftover Italian bread for sopping up the gravy. :)

How do you make your corned beef?

[Gormy Cuss]

14. I buy a corned beef from someone local.

The upside is it has already been drained of the brine. The downside is it tends to have more of the outer fat layer on the brisket, so the first step is to give it a good trim. I leave a bit of visible fat and score it. I'm not fond of salty food so I simmer the beef for about ten minutes, dump the liquid and start again, then simmer it for about another two hours. It's still well seasoned.

I add the onions and carrots about 30 minutes before the beef is done. After I remove the beef to rest I add the cabbage and let it simmer for about 15 minutes. I boil whole, small, unpeeled potatoes in a separate pan.

I always serve it with horseradish, mustard, and some pan juices on the side.

[EFerrari]

18. I made it for the first time and in the middle of a horrible week

it was a beautiful thing. Next time, less liquid I think, but the veggies were just done and very tasty.

[pengillian101]

10. I have zip Irish blood, but I love corned beef!

We had corned beef from Omaha Steak, but the 1 hour they said to cook it was not right. After a 1 hour taste in the oven, I put it the crockpot w/water all afternoon.

Then --- it got very tender and tasty. Supper was good with cabbage and potatoes. The corned beef is a 2 pounder.

Hash in the morning is planned.

Any other ideas?

[Phentex]

12. No ideas but...

"hash in the morning" sounds funny. :P

[pengillian101]

17. Aha! "hash in the morning" sounds funny. :P

What I meant was LIKE a corned beef canned Mary Kitchen hash - I love that stuff out of a can :-)



I had a good guy pal (of my ex's) visit last summer - a long-haired hippy dude, Ive known and loved for 40 years. He spent the weekend, with us, but he went outdoors for 'his' hash :hippie:

Gotta love him. :hippie: