Its Corned Beef Time!

Tuesday is St. Pat's Day... so its not too early to get out the corned beef and cook it up for a nice Sunday dinner.. and so we did.

In latter years mom came to the conclusion and of course its true, the its not worth your time and energy to waste your time cooking a corned brisket. It better to get a big chunk of round. You don't have to deal with the fat, its better for you, and there is significantly less shrinkage involved.

Along with the corned beef,there has to be some potatoes,carrots, and cabbage. The potatoes go in after the meat shows some tenderness. Then 20 minutues later the carrots go in, and finally in the last 5 minutes, the cabbage. Oh we dearly love the cabbage done this way.

Rumor has it that one of our stray cats (Gauguin, since departed from us) was lured out of his stray catdom by a tiny bite of corned beef. The girls have since confessed. I think that he hung out at our house in hopes of recapturing the moment of bliss of chowing down on some corned beef crumbles.

My daughter have long since believed that corned beef and cabbage is the ultimate Thanksgiving fare.. with the exception of the year that we deep fried 6 small turkeys in the front yard of Granpa's house.

So its corned beef season. Although its not really authentic, it stil spells I R I S H...

Love.. Pat