St Patrick's Day Dinner Recap

[Cheesy Oysters]

I got the idea to make a sauce from the broth, buttermilk, and horeradish from one of the St. Paddy's Day posts. It was a hit. I saw powdered buttermilk in the line at the grocery store and grabbed a can awhile back. It's really handy to have around so when I read the post yesterday, I didn't need to run out to the store.

Looking forward to corned beef hash tonight. I make about 11 pounds of corned beef and 4 heads of cabbage (three would have been plenty).

How was your dinner?

[Jim Washburn]

I used a pressure cooker on a three-pound brisket I cured myself in a seasoned wet brine for two weeks. Then I pulled out the meat and pressure cooked onions, carrots, new potatoes, and cabbage in the broth. All was excellent in taste and texture.

Jim

[kchurchill5]

I had a 4lb just for me. But I love tons of leftovers. I will have to try a pressure cooker sometimes. No room to keep one in my apt, but I'm sure it was great. A true CBC guy. Cabbage is the best for me. I can't get enough of it.

[silverhawk]

i tried a corned beef round and wish i would have stayed with the traditional brisket. it was pretty lean. i was a good boy, but....

last night's hash was dandy, though. the leaner round was actually a plus. i fork mashed a few left over new red potatoes and added some newly parboiled diced golds along with shredded onion, a bit of hot mustard and about 1/4 c of the original broth. i let it sit for 4 hrs before frying it. looking forward to ruebens now.

[kchurchill5]

I thicken my broth of beer (guiness) and a little beef broth) with a slurry of corn starch and grainy mustard. My group doesn't like horsy sauce but I would of added that too. My broth had cooked all day with some herbs, whole cloves, a little garlic and pepper so I had a lot of flavor.

It was great.

[Procrastibaker]

OK, tried posting this earlier but it didn't take. We had a really good meal--
black velvets to start, regular stout to follow
mini walnut soda bread, porter cheese, cultured butter, red currant jelly
corned beef ham with spiced peaches
colcannon
chocolate stout cupcakes with mint marshmallow icing
you can see some pics here: www.thetally.wordpress.com

[chef chicklet]

cooked the corned beef in the oven, about three hours. Slathered in the mustard,garlic, brown sugar stuff. Celery and Onion, added the carrots and potatoes about an hour before dinner was to be served, Cabbage? hmmmmm. Realized I forgot to add the cabbage. crap. My son wouldn' t shut up about it being his favorite part of the meal. I'd put the head of cabbage back into the fridge to free up the counter. You guessed it out of sight out of mind. The meal was good, but would of been better with the cabbage. The corned beef was excellent, the little bag of pickling spices did its job well.

[Amuse Bouches]

Made excellent champ (mashed potatoes with scallions and basil) and the world's best cabbage (sauted in a lot of butter) but my corned beef was sadly mushy. I bought a nitrate free one from Trader Joe's this year and cooked in the crockpot (which I always do).

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[TampaAurora]

Only eh actually. I made corned beef with cabbage, carrots and potatoes in my slow cooker. My corned beef was too tough, but everything else was delicious. I really need to learn how to make my own corned beef since I like it so much. It's normally soooo good that we have it about once a season in this house.

[kchurchill5]

Ditto that, corned beer, cabbage, carrots, potatoes and onions. Mine was absolutely fab. Cooked with a guiness, 1 1/2 cups beef broth, whole cloves, pepper and bay leaves 2, beef on the bottom veggies on top. Cooked for 8 hours on low, (5 lbs by the way) and then removed all veggies and beef to a large pan covered and set in the oven at 250 with just a spoon of broth. Turned the pot on high and cooked the cabbage quartered in the pot for 1 1/2 hrs, removed to the over pan and sliced up the beef and put everything in serving bowls. Thickened the sauce with a little dijon, and corn starch, May a thin gravy for the guests. Also had some creamed horsy sauce with sour cream on the side and Irish Soda Bread. (Store bought this year). PERFECT. It fell apart. and veggies were done but not MUSH, cabbage was perfect!!

[Val]

TA, I can't imagine *tough* corned beef out of a crock pot...out of 3 sons, 2 lads are Irish American-food lovin' but don't live here anymore...they went to Cali!...3rd son doesn't care about corned beef & cabbage so it made no sense at all for me to prepare it this year! So, I had a reuben sandwich today at work to scratch my corned beef itch...for $5.00...good deal, the corned beef was soooo tender and no globby fat anywhere. But, which cut of corned beef did you get, point or flat?

[TampaAurora]

Flat cut. I've never had my corned beef turn out like this, so I was stumped.

[kchurchill5]

Crock pot and it fell apart. The veggies soft the broth was amazing and the cabbage tender but not mushy.