St.Patrick’s Day is a little over a week away but I thought I would start early with the special St Patrick’s Day menus. Corned beef will be going on sale soon and there is no reason you need to wait until the “wearing of the green” day to have corned beef. For that matter, stock up on it for some other day.
Corned Beef Tips:
- Cut corned beef across the grain for more tender slices.
- Save juices and reduce. Dice leftover corned beef and make corned beef soup with leftovers.
Menu:
Irish Corned Beef Brisket and Cabbage
Irish Soda Bread
Blarney Stone Cookies
Recipes:
Irish Corned Beef Brisket and Cabbage
1 (3 lb.) corned beef brisket, plus seasoning packet
1 large onion, peeled
10 small (red) potatoes
15 baby carrots
1 head of cabbage, cored and cut into wedges
Salt and pepper (to taste)
Place brisket, seasoning packet and onion in a large Dutch oven or pot. Cover with water 6 inches above meat. Bring to a boil and boil for 30 minutes. Reduce to medium low or to a gentle boil. Cover and cook for 3 1/2 hours. Remove onions, cut into wedges and put back in the pot. Add carrots, cabbage and then potatoes. Cover and cook 30 more minutes or until potatoes are tender. Remove vegetables, but keep the meat in the juices until you’re ready to slice it so it won’t dry out.
Side Sauce
Mix the night or day before and then serve on the side with your corned beef.
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
2 Tbsp. horseradish
1/2-1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Irish Soda Bread
This Irish Soda Bread is great served with Irish stew. Eat leftover soda bread toasted or use for French toast.
1/2 cup sugar
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
2 cups raisins
1 Tbsp. caraway seeds, optional*
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 1/4 cup buttermilk
1 cup sour cream
Preheat oven to 350° (175° C). Mix first seven ingredients. In a second bowl mix eggs, buttermilk and sour cream. Add liquid ingredients to dry, adding enough until flour is moistened. Knead 10-12 strokes. The dough will be very sticky. Place in a 9 inch cake pan. Cut a 4″ X in the top. Brush top with milk. Bake for 65-75 minutes.
*Caraway seeds make it more authentic, but if you don’t like them or don’t have them, you can leave them out. You could also use 1 cup of raisins and one cup dried cranberries.
Blarney Stone Cookies
Add a couple drops of green food coloring to the dough of your favorite sugar cookie recipe. Sprinkle with green sugar* or frost with green frosting.
*Make green sugar by placing sugar in a container with a couple of drops of green food coloring and shake.
photo by: stuart_spivack
we cant wait for this to go on sale .. we love corned beef and lots of cabbage! ..
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thanks for posting the recipes
I especially like the Blarney Stone Cookie idea. Very creative.
well just to let u and everyone know.. i was at walmart today and they had the corned beef on sale .. yay!
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enjoy ..
and yes bea, i agree with u
Hi,
Can I use the slow cooker for the corned beef recipe? If so, how long on low? Thank you so much and love your newsletter! Happy St. Paddy’s day!!
Lori thank you and yes you can do it in the crock pot. Put the potatoes, carrots, onion in first then corn beef and cabbage. Cook on low for about 8-10 hours.
I won`t be having corn beef briskit tomorrow. When I was at the grocery store last Saturday I looked for it in the meat case and there wasn`t any. I asked the butcher if they had any and he told they didn`t and wouldn`t have any until Monday or Tuesday of this week and he didn`t know if they would be on sale. Sense Wednesdays are the start of their sales, I decided to go again today. Well, they didn`t get the briskets in and they didn`t have any regular beef briskets either.
Hope everyone enjoys their St. Patricks Day corn beef brisket dinner tomorrow
cant wait for this .. we love love love corned beef and cabbage .. and last year .. i ran out of cabbage ..
.. and its a great gift too ..
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this yr .. we will have more cabbage and only a small potatoe for each of us .. even my son came back for thirds on the cabbage last yr …
also .. my daughter’s b-day is next week .. and i ordered her the dining on the dime book .. she will be so excited ..
thank you for helping get a great gift for my daughter
is penny pinching mama book still on sale? ..
We just had this tonight. I make our sauce a bit different though, using prepared mustard to taste instead of the horseradish and the Worcestershire sauce. DH and the kids like it better, I like either
Hello,
The soda bread recipe calls for “soda” is that the same as baking soda?
Yes this recipe was written long before the fad of using soda pop in everything so most recipes that called for soda was baking soda. I’ll change it. Thanks for mentioning it.
A few years ago I baked the corn beef in a covered dutch oven instead of simmering on top of stove.
Just added the gooey juice from the package, left out the spices and baked at 225* for 3-4 1/2 hours depending on poundage.
Came out nicely red like you get in delis.
Sauted cabbage in frying pan.
Now I only do it this way as the flavor is much more intense.
Anne