Woot-tastic Corned Beef and Cabbage

[Salty]

For this recipe I used about 4lbs of corned beef. But I only have one pot big enough to hold any piece of meat that size and this one barely fit.

BEEF

-Hunk of Corned Beef. As much as you can handle, baby. I used The Real McCoy beef I found at The Store.
-Two bottles of beer (I usually keep dark beer in the house, and prefer it).
-Water.
-Spice packet that came with beef. If your beef didn't come with a spice packet I cannot help you.
-Potatoes (as much as will fit with the carrots).
-Carrots (as much as will fit with the potatoes).

Place beef in pot.
Pour beer in.
Cover with water
Bring to boil then simmer, covered, for about 4 hours (or 1 hour per lb.)
In the last 20-30 minutes, add potatoes and carrots.

But where, you may ask, is the freaking cabbage?
I don't really like throwing it in with the meat. It's just too bland, and I really like good cabbage.

So...

CABBAGE

-One head of cabbage.
-Half a slab of bacon.
-Five cloves of garlic.
-As many mushrooms as you damned-well please.
-Sausage, one handful of. I like summer sausage because it is delicious.

Cut bacon into pieces, I cut them about the size of the upper part of my thumb or so.
Fry bacon until browned slightly.
Cut cabbage in half, remove core, then slice.
Add cabbage to bacon.
Coat top layer with pepper, add salt to taste.
After cabbage has cooked down a bit, add cut up garlic. (I smash it with the flat of a knife, then chop).
Add sliced mushrooms.
Cook down a little more.
Add sausage.

It's done when you think it looks mindbogglingly delicious and when the meat has had the living fuck cooked out of it. 1hr per pound.

EAT.

I find the cabbage alone is a good meal with rice.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I want that instead of what I had.

We didn't feel like cooking, so we had...

Buh Buh Buh BUM

fast food burgers. eew.

[Suu]

I hate corned beef and cabbage. The really real Irish didn't eat it, just poor ass Irish immigrants in America, which is my my mum refuses to eat it on St. Pat's.  It's an insulting tradition cooked up by the typical American WASPS after the Potato Famine as a way to make the Irish "feel welcome".

[0]

Actually, the reason Irish-Americans made it a tradition was to remember coming to america in COFFIN SHIPS. Brined beef was one of the few things that held out during transatlantic voyages with 100s and 100s of people crammed into small ships while very few of them actually made it across without dying from airborne disease.

[Suu]

It's still disgusting. Your argument is invalid.

[Salty]

As to the cabbage: I don't really know about those weird Irish people, but where my family lived in Germany, cabbage was kind of a big deal. They had an annual cabbage festival and it was pretty standard fare in my household. Mrs. Alty made more the more "Traditional Irish" version of this and I found the cabbage find of icky. So I ramped it up with delicious bacon and whatnot.

As to the corned beef: DELICIOUS MEAT IS DELICIOUS.

Actually, I was going to put this little meal in Alty's Hungarian Hotspot, because while it may be "Irish", I am Hungarian. Therfore this recipie is Hungarian. So your arguement is invalid.



Neener neener.   

[0]

It's still disgusting. Your argument is invalid.

What? Who's arguing whether or not it's disgusting?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I fucking love cabbage and slow cooked meats with spices.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! I still want this!

ps- what's a "Irish"?

[Salty]

Not really real Irish? I don't know, I was in a lot of pain, sick in the belly when I wrote that.

[0]

An Irish is when you knock up your wife for the 20th time, and punch her in the gut while drinking whiskey. At least that's what I've pieced together from the backs of sugar packets.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

An Irish is when you knock up your wife for the 20th time, and punch her in the gut while drinking whiskey. At least that's what I've pieced together from the backs of sugar packets.

Oooh. ok

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I absolutely adore corned beef with potatoes and cabbage. OMG. I want it now.

[0]

ME TOO ME TOO ME TOO!!!!!

OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM

GIVE IT TO US, PRECIOUSSSSS!

[0]

and here she is:

[Jenne]

My irish as fuck Grandmama used to make boiled beef shank & cabbage. not stinky corned beefs. and it was still gross. sorry Grandma, don't haunt me. you damn well know it was.

And Alty--great recipe--will try next time I make!