Looks good! Love the carats! Are those for good luck and riches?

I got a piece of corned beef just to have something different, but the weekend plans got scrambled, so I made it for lunch today. We're not Irish either, but the timing worked out. :)

I had Hipster Corned Beef. About half the size of normal, but grass fed, low sodium (for corned beef), celery cured. The package said to slow cook Lo, and that sounded easy! It suggested beef bone broth. I used a pint of my veg stock, a bottle of Corona (i.e., "cooking beer") and a bit of water, plus the seasoning packet that comes with. I'd found a great sounding beer braise recipe, and the bloggist who wrote it said to use a light lager, not ale. The cooking liquid is marvelous! Not too salty, very little fat. I'm thinking of using some on the chuck that's going to be tacos. The corned beef went for sandwiches with mustard-herb bread I made last night, grainy mustard, red leaf and romaine lettues, dill pickles and zucchini pickles.

I like the idea of the noodles--or even gnocchi--cooked in the corned beef liquid.

I'm a tiny bit Irish (not enough to count, really) and I think I'm about 1/8 Scots-Irish, which is from Northern Ireland and the arch-enemy of the Irish.

Anyway, I made my version of Irish stew for St. Patrick's Day. My version uses Italian turkey sausage instead of lamb or mutton, since neither of us eats mutton. Kevin does have some Irish Whiskey, and I've used that to make an Irish Coffee Pie, but I don't have the cream to make that at the moment.

I would eat corned beef, but Kevin will now, and I'm not even sure that corned beef is Irish. I've mainly bought it at Jewish delicatessens.

I had planned corned beef and cabbage, realized I needed to use the ground turkey. Chili it was!

I've slow baked my corned beef the last few years, and have one in the oven @250 now. Tried it and both liked it when mentioned on the Cooking forum, comes out more like an unsmoked pastrami but works for us. I'll saute the cabbage. DH went to the store for a nice cabbage this morning. I said 'small'. This is smaller than that, I've never seen a cabbage of this petite size ;0)

That looks so good! You're especially fancy with your carats. Much more patience than I :-)

Dcarch, Your plating is always so beautiful. Love the Carats!

I am only 1/8th Irish, but I still like to celebrate. We have just learned to make sausage, so tonight we had leek & potato soup with bangers & mash.

I'm the only one in my family who doesn't like corn beef and cabbage

Irish or not, it's beautiful!

Yum. I'm doing mine this weekend. Ancestry says I'm not as Irish as I thought, but we still gotta do the corned beef. I usually pressure cook my brisket and I was thinking of sous vide-ing it, but is there enough juice to flavor the vegies? I've always cooked them in the pot after the beef was done.

Not a drop off Irish blood here lol

Love those carats. What knife skill!

dcarch, I love the "carets", that's pretty clever. I'll blow you a kiss, that's safe. I'm definitely Irish, my great-great-great Grandmother was from County Meath and her name was Bridget Murphy.

However, I had cataract surgery on St. Patrick's Day, so Elery cooked while I slept off the meds. He made me colcannon, a definitely Irish dish, and roast turkey, not so Irish, but we're trying to clean the freezer, LOL. He's more Scottish too, like Lars.

I have a corned beef in the freezer, but it's not really Irish, that's an American thing, although the Irish did sell corned beef to America and France back when it was illegal to sell Irish beef to England. So they preserved/corned their beef and sold it to America, which is how we connected Irish and corned beef, I think. Plus Irish immigrants bought a lot of their beef from local kosher butchers in small communities, and it all kind of mixed up together, like most of America's melting pot.

I do like corned beef, although I like the hash from the leftovers more than I like the corned beef itself, so I'll do that at a later time.

Happy St. Pat's, although I'm a bit late.

Annie

Ooh yum... I might have to take a second wrap my head around rice noodles flavored with Irish/Jewish corned beef. I think corned beef and cabbage was originally adopted by American Irish because it was cheap.

O/T I am a she... I had never thought about the fact my ‘name’ on here as being gender neutral. My initials are easy to remember...

Thank you everyone. Sounds like you all had a nice and safe St. Pat's Day.

Annie How is you eye doing?

Agmss, speaking of gender neural, it reminds me of a cartoon I did a long time ago.

dcarch

<O/T I am a she... I had never thought about the fact my ‘name’ on here
as being gender neutral. My initials are easy to remember... >

Agmss, I always translated your name here to Ag Miss, or Agricultural Miss. Am I wrong? I usually am wrong when I try to interpret people's names.

Annie, has your cataract surgery affected you vision otherwise? After my mother had hers, she was no longer nearsighted, but she said she felt naked without glasses and so she continued to wear some anyway, even though she did not need them. I do not remember you wearing glasses, however.

Lars, I have worn glasses since first grade! I wore contact lenses until a couple of years ago, when my eyes became too dry to tolerate them.

It's just so different, I still reach up to take my glasses off whenever I put in the eyedrops, and a couple of times I've thought that I need to clean my contacts when my eyes become tired or scratchy. I know it's a silly small thing, but I'm still surprised in the morning when I can see the alarm clock at the side of the bed when I wake up!

I can read and use the computer with no glasses at all, but the doctor says I will probably need glasses to drive long distances, I am still slightly nearsighted and have been corrected to 20/30 at this point. My right eye before surgery was less than 20/80, they stopped testing at that point. My left eye was slightly better.

So my vision has been corrected to the point where I can legally drive without glasses, but details are not as sharp as I would like and I can't read things like street signs as quickly as I would like. The doc does say that my vision will continue to change and that I shouldn't get glasses for about 2 months. Double bonus is that when/if I do buy glasses I won't have to buy any more of those $500 special-lightweight-progressive lenses that were still about a quarter inch thick.

AND, no fogging up of the glasses from my mask, yay! The downside is that I now see things that need cleaning that I never noticed before so I've been dusting lampshades and scrubbing drawer handles, LOL.

Annie

Annie - I am glad you and your eyeballs are doing well.

Lars - My parents were excited by my arrival and creatively indulgent. They gave me 5 names. Luckily the weird one (think 60s girl group) is in the middle. My first name is Amanda.