Yup, it's on the menu for Sunday. Mine started as a beef brisket, it's currently "corning" in the refrigerator, today is day 3, it needs two more days.

Cabbage and potatoes too, colcannon is one of my favorite things. Maybe some oatmeal cakes or soda bread.

Haven't figured out dessert yet.

Happy St. Pat's!

Annie

Annie, it’s one of my favorite meals of the year. Yes, love colcannon, too!

I haven’t figured out dessert, either. DH really likes this cheesecake I found in Bon Appetit long ago. However, it’s nice for company but too much for just the two of us. Thinking maybe Ina’s apple crostata. We can have leftovers for breakfast.☺️

Irish Cream Cheesecake With Mixed Berries (from Bon Appetit)

Begin preparing this the day before you plan to serve it.

Crust:
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
3 T. sugar
3 T. butter, melted

Filling:
3 8-oz. Pkgs. Cream cheese, room temp.
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup sour cream
1/3 cup Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur
4 large eggs, room temp.

Topping:
1 cup sour cream
¼ cup sugar

1 1-pint basket strawberries, stemmed, halved
1 ½-pint basket raspberries
1 ½-pint basket blackberries
Sugar

For Crust:
Preheat oven to 350. Mix all ingredients in small bowl. Press crumb mixture onto bottom (not sides) of 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 ¾-inch-high sides. Bake until brown, about 8 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool. Maintain oven temp.

For Filling:
Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until well blended. Beat in sour cream and Irish cream liqueur. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating just until combined. Pour filling over crust in pan. Bake until edges are puffed and center no longer moves when pan is shaken, about 50 minutes. Transfer cheesecake to rack and cool 10 minutes. Maintain oven temp.

Meanwhile, prepare topping:
Mix sour cream and ¼ cup sugar in bowl until smooth. Press down edges of cheesecake to flatten. Spoon topping over hot cheesecake. Bake 10 minutes. Transfer cheesecake to rack and cool. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Combine berries in large bowl. Season to taste with sugar. Release pan sides from cheesecake. Cut cheesecake into wedges and serve with berries.

I got 2 corned beef at Costco, one for the freezer, one for this weekend. I put mine in the slow cooker, with chopped onion and carrots and celery, the spice pack, and a bottle of beer. Add the potatoes, cabbage and carrots later. Serve with a dijon, sour cream/horseradish sauce.

Raising hand that I, too, slow cook corn beef briskit. I bought the lesser cut with a point. DH & I are not fans of cooked cabbage. He suggested we eat 'mini cabbages'---brussels sprouts.

Sadly, I do not have corned beef because Kevin won't eat it, but I would, if it were around.

Tomorrow is Kevin's birthday, but we're not really celebrating because we will be moving a lot of boxes to Cathedral City tomorrow. We were planning to go there yesterday, but there are too many things we need to do in L.A.

I do have some cabbage, but I'm saving that for okonomiyaki, which is the most common way I eat cabbage.

No, I like it, but like Kevin, my husband would not touch it, nor any cabbage other than slaw.

I may buy a sandwich.

*For sure......making the usual plus soda bread!

While I am making corned beef on Sunday, mainly because DH loves it for leftovers, I will comment that in Ireland people are quite mystified by the ”corned beef for St Patrick’s Day” thing in the US, as corned beef isn’t a particularly Irish dish.

I picked up two from Costco. It is my Moms favorite meal. She eats pretty much all of the leftovers. I can’t make myself eat boiled potatoes or boiled cabbage so I usually have a corned beef sandwich and call it a day. My brother loves this meal too, I don’t get it. LOL

She gets one in March and one in April every year 💚

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to everyone.

I buy extra pickling spice because what comes in the package is skimpy. I don't like the spices all over everything when it's served so yesterday I simmered the spices, strained them out and then cooked the corned beef. It worked great. For leftovers today I'm making cole slaw instead of boiled cabbage. I think it will go well with corned beef and red potatoes.

Okay, I was too lazy to make corned beef this year so we went to a traditional Irish pub that we'd never visited before. What a mistake. The flavor profile was good, but the meat had been shaved as though for a sandwich. When we asked for mustard, we got a squeeze jar of Kraft Yellow crap that I wouldn't put on a hot dog. The cabbage was plentiful, but it was the cheap white stuff - no green at all. The one potato was so small that I ate it in two bites. And the meal came with two cooked onions. Onions???

I swear, I won't be lazy again next St. Patrick's Day.

I waited too long and could only get point cut- probably first time trying. Baked it with a mustard/ brown sugar/onion powder/ paprika coating and it was delicious! (the tipsyhousewife.org)

Mashed potatoes, roasted carrots and cabbage braised in cider/vinegar.

Sliced a leftover piece of CB today & seeing all the marbled fat- no wonder it was so good!

I never heard of braising cabbage in vinegar and cider, but it sounds good. What's interesting is I sprinkle a little vinegar on it when it's on my plate. I don't know where I got that idea but it's likely that my mother served it that way. Maybe it's a common way to eat cabbage.

What's funny is that in Ireland people don't eat corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day. It's barely heard of there.

It's Irish American, which doesn't make it any less Irish. My great grandparents came here from County Antrim around 1880. I grew up eating it, as did my father.

We had corned beef Sunday, and still have some leftover. Last night it was soup and corned beef sandwiches. We like hash, but I'm trying hard to keep the fat content down in meals until DH can get in end of the month and have his gall bladder removed! A major flare up a couple of weeks ago that was frightening since we didn't know what it was. A trip to emergency middle of the night, a first for him as he's never been sick, never had a surgery. This will be outpatient.

This is the second year I've splurged on a Costco wagyu corned beef from Snake River Farms. They don't have many and only for a couple of weeks near the end of February. So good! Although DH was careful to take only a small serving.

I bake very slowly in the oven. Some peppercorns, little water, garlic and wrapped tightly in foil. A mustard glaze when almost finished cooking. The cabbage and carrots, halved yukon gold potatoes went into the oven too closer to the end of the brisket cooking time. I think I like the cabbage better sauteed, this ( wedges) was still a little firm after more than an hour low heat.

I bought two briskets, one for the weekend and one for the freezer 😊

We have been reminded for decades that our Irish traditional meal is not Irish but we don't care. Obviously. Always a dozen articles saying the same thing, every year, what the Irish meal might be. Most of it does not apeal to me/us. Except for colcannon and some stews that we make all the time anywho.

One grandmother was English, (maiden name Holmes), grandfather, Scotish, (Walker). Settled in eastern Tennessee, then moved to the easter shore where they embraced the bounty of the sea. Learning to use what is abundant. We all came from somewhere.

Our traditions are to celebrate all the various cultures throughout the year.

Our Irish and English friends are thankful we have made their homeland foods palatable, lol.

We did not have guest over so did not have corned beef. Really missed not having it. But we just had a big Momofuku BoSaam last week, (pulled pork).

We did have corned beef and I put a venison roast in the brine too so Amanda would have one to cook the next day, she had dinner at my house on St. Pat's. Tomorrow will be my favorite part of the meal, corned beef hash!

No, corned beef is not traditionally the Irish meal for St. Patrick's Day, it was more common for the Irish to eat salted pork. When Irish immigrants came through New York they often settled near Jewish immigrants. They found salted pork hard to find and that beef was far less expensive than it was back in Ireland. Corned beef was made with the brisket, which was a cheap cut before BBQ made it popular. It was so cheap that Irish saloon keepers in NY often gave away corned beef sandwiches to Irish workers to keep them drinking, and so American Irish can actually thank the Jewish immigrants for corned beef!

Still, it's a very American-Irish tradition and I doubt it'll go away. Of course, celebrations for St. Pat's are much different now that American's have gotten involved. (grin)

Annie

No one is very excited about corned beef. So I turned my corned beef into pastrami. And everyone thanked me for it.

72 hours sous vide, 6 hours in the smoker. Wonderful.

dcarch

Dcarch, do you hand slice, ot do you have a slicer?

Dcarch probably uses a chain saw, lol.

Pastrami is so tender it slices easily with a carving knife. Katz's Deli has 8 carving stations behind the counter. By hand, no effort.

Growing up with a Jewish grandmother who LOVED to cook, I probably ate more corned beef than every Irish friend I knew.

Sleevendog, I was thinking in terms of paper thin. Not a matter of force. I'm sure Dcarch's knives are sharp. Just wondering if carving pastrami is his thing or if he has a special gadget for the job, like a converted table saw, or a sawsall attached to a lawnmower motor, or even one of those foldable deli slicers....

I don't have a slicer. I find it much easier to slice by hand with my ultra sharp home-made knife. No need to drag out the machine and clean up afterward. Yes, more than once I had to show my guests it is possible to slice by hand thinner than the machine.

dcarch

Paper thin pastrami

Thanks for the pix! I knew you'd have an sppropriately sharp knife. I don't have a steady enough hand for even slices, so I love seeing the work of those who do.

Out of curiousity, how many of you have Irish origins? I ask because I have a lot of Irish in my family but not one celebrates St P's day LOL In Europe, it's more for tourists and a few young'uns as an excuse for a drink.

I don’t think you need to be Irish here to celebrate. Did you know we have parades? They are everywhere! I honestly don’t know what any of it means but I do love to eat and drink. LOL

Islay, did you know that if you don’t wear green you may get punched? Although this is probably mostly among siblings.

Example of the parades

“Islay, did you know that if you don’t wear green you may get punched?”

What happened to pinched?

I used to wear orange and sew a button on in green. We do the CB and C, but also do Balnamoon skink from time to time. Basically a chicken/leek soup. Might have taters in there too.

When I was in fouth grade, knowing nothing about Irish history or St. Patrick's Day, other than green construction paper shamrocks on the bulletin board, and as cookies, I wore a favorite outfit to school, not even knowing it was St. Patrick's Day—a jumper (dress worn over blouse, not what we call ”sweater") with a faint darker plaid and 3/4 sleeve top with tiny frill edges which matched the plaid lines. So pretty! A girl with what I now know is an Irish surname, a normally sweet girl, walked up with an angry face and socked me in the arm. Hard. Because my beautiful jumper was pumpkin orange. I was baffled. I cried. Perpetuating grievances brings neither peace nor prosperity, and attacking people who don't know about your grievance or symbols just creates more grievances. I never spoke to her again and avoided her as much as possible.

IC, for adults, it's an excuse to eat corned beef and cabbage, and sing Irish folk/pub songs, have festivals and parades and drink a lot. May 5 is the same thing with Mexican decor, commemorating the battle of Puebla, where on paper the victorious Mexicans were overmatched by the overlords (but it's not a military observance). It's not a big deal in Mexico. Here, in what was once part of Mexico, the celebration, when I was a kid, was a cultural festival, both in neighborhoods and at school. We learned Mexican folk dances and songs, and saw the same at festivals, where they also highlighted Mexican food. Since May Day isn't big here (our Labor Day is the beginning of September), the Mexicans kind of latched onto May 5 for a celebration. I don't know if that's the official origin, but that's what people said. Until the beer companies saw an opportunity and started sponsoring the festivals, made them bigger, with nationally known, rather than local, bands, and the day became about drinking rather than traditional culture, and started be known, for a time, as Mexican St. Patrick's day.

There are many other similar festivals for many other groups. Many are more about food than drink, depending on the culture, and how many commercial entities are pushing the booze.

Chloe after you said pinched, I remembered getting pinched at school. I am pretty sure most of the punching memories are from close relatives horsing around. They were both harsh enough lessons that I would never exit the building without wearing green. Just as a preventative measure now 💚

LOL, Joan, I’m just fine without either one!

Thanks for the info. I've seen the parades on TV your side and always thought it was funny. I suppose that wearing orange could be seen as quite aggressive or partisan if you were in northern Ireland but surely children in the U.S. should not have those reactions. Sad really.

I do have Irish ancestors, my maiden name was Traynor and my ancestors came here via Canada from County Meath. My great-great-great (I think that's the right amount of "greats") Grandmother was Bridget Murphy, LOL. In spite of that genetic background we never actually "celebrated" St. Patrick's Day as an Irish thing, it really is just an American excuse to have a party, I think!

Annie