Saturday, March 17, 2018

Corned Beef & Cabbage for the 21st Century

By now everyone is tired of my posting the secret recipe.  Refresher:

Forget that.  Even if you have to buy an instant pot it is worth it.  Thus the new instructions:
  • 3pounds (1.5kg) corned beef, 1.5 inches in thickness
Wrong.  No reason to go with the more expensive flat cut.  The point cut will lose the fat and tenderize just the same.  no need to pay twice as much for the "better" cut.   Point cut.  Don't worry about thickness. 
  • 4 cups (1L) cold water
Wrong.   You need beer.  this is a holiday.  you need beer.  The old rules still apply.  Cheeap is fine, probably better even BUT no rice beer.  The grains are part of the process. 
  • 1 large (300g) onion, quartered
Ehhh, seems a bit much.  to taste.  I use a 1/4-1/3rd.
  • 6 (25g) garlic cloves, crushed
Again.  We aren't French cuisine here.  A couple crushed cloves is fine for that hint but 4 is overpowering 

Pickling Spices Seasoning:
Sounds about right or if your corned beef came with a seasoning packet, you can use that instead.

Vegetables:
  • 8 (500g) carrots, peeled, cut to 2.5 inches in length
  • 6 (600g) small red potatoes, quartered
  • 1/2 cabbage, cut into 3-4 wedges
Let's face it.  nobody really likes more than few bites of boiled cabbage.

ENJOY!

38 comments:

Cinco-X said...

Yum

Rob Dawg said...

For the record, that picture is not retouched in anyway.

Lawyerliz said...

Can I come to your house?

Rob Dawg said...

Yes, Liz although when Cinco was here we ate out at the brewery, In N Out and the fish shack at the harbor. Never at at the Dawghaus. It was embarrassing because the house was a hoarder mess having emptied two other houses recently and not disposing of the huge excess. I’ll make you corned beef if you want but I’m even better at bbq.

LBD said...

I had Shepard's pie with Guinness gravy the other day at Mallory's. I get a sandwich with corn beef on occasion. I'm not green.

Lawyerliz said...

Had a shepherd's pie last week. Yum

TJandTheBear said...

I'm predicting there's a huge BBQ party at the Dawg Haus once that patio expansion is complete.

Lawyerliz said...

Watch the 100 year olds race!

Horses can't vomit.

Rob Dawg said...

100 years old and ABLE to run 60yds.

Lawyerliz said...

That's wonderful too. 3 of those ladies were actually running.

Cinco-X said...

Weren't you in the process of redoing the kitchen? In any event, the place was nice, and you made us feel welcome.

LBD said...

Good Morning!

These old bones are trying to break a mile under four minutes on the stationary bike. Almost there a few four minutes ten second runs. All of the weight of my riding gear and helmet are slowing me down. Maybe a carbon fiber helmet will help. :)

Rob Dawg said...

Maybe it isn’t the shell but the contents. ;)

LBD said...

You mean do I floss between my ears?

Rob Dawg said...

Just laughing with you not at you. I too am increasingly frustrated at "that used to be so easy."

BTW. I added a picture to this post of the results of dinner yesterday. I learn a bit every time. This time I learned that you cannot overcook corned beef but you can undercook it. Err to the high side.

Rob Dawg said...

> "Weren't you in the process of redoing the kitchen?"

We had just recently emptied a partially furnished house we were going to rent and still had the boxes from her mom's estate. It was peak "stuff." We also had kids moving around and their "stuff." Better now.

The kitchen is going to include wall studs as plumbing needs to be fixed. Big job. Will cost about a Lexus. Starts in maybe three months. Before you pop your eyes at the price consider it will add two Lexus' to the value and we get to enjoy it in the meantime. Solid investment.

LBD said...

I love a good laugh even if it is at me. Fire away! :)

This years improvement is reinstalling the picture windows in the A frame. They set them back 4" and the extreme wind and rain will build up and leak. Investment of slave labor results is fixing others stupid, priceless. Outback building standards in 1966 where none. Solid house with some home owners finish not so smarts.

Rob Dawg said...

My buddy with the Tesla used to have a "chalet" near the base of the gondola in Mammoth. We woke one day to no view from the sliding glass doors to the porch. It wasn't drifts. Just snowfall. He wisely sold and is in the process of divesting all CA commercial or possibly redefined as commercial property. He has too much to lose. CA is in the process of eliminating Prop 13 for anything they decide to call commercial.

LBD said...

Isn't a home office commercial? How about some of those construction, plumbing and others service businesses. Property tax wise I have always felt the unfairness of these businesses. Prop 13 has never been fixed for commercial so it is fair game but as broke as Kali is this will become a very abused situation. More Biz and jobs leaving?

Rob Dawg said...

LBD gets it.

Lawyerliz said...

We'll take them. We are not quite so bad.

Lawyerliz said...

My Unitarian friends are impossibly progressive, which, I think, means nothing is ever good enough in the economy.

LBD said...

Nebraska had a bill similar to prop 13 voted down that if they had passed it control of government spending and property tax Nebraska now would not be amongst the highest in the country. Farm and ranch producers love the high prices land bring but cry they need another 10% cut in values, bringing them down to 65% of accessed value. Every time I hear a farmer cry about this I ask why they didn't support the tax reform when they had a chance. The blank stair is priceless.

Lawyerliz said...

I think they wouldn't like to pay higher property texes.

Lawyerliz said...

Teachers who used to live next door
opposed
a tax increase which failed.
Then they didn't get a raise to be paid for by the increase.
Ase.

Lawyerliz said...

But they didn't tell us!!! They walked.
Gackkkk.

Lawyerliz said...

Wailed.

Lawyerliz said...

That meat looked really red

LBD said...

I like the way he explains the bridge failure in simple terms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxQJj8D_FE0&list=PL6SYmp3qb3uO78Tu9wAI148aVyX0GOP4G

LBD said...

Good Morning!

Shouldn't the milk be green!

Lawyerliz said...

They turn the river in Chicago green. Happy Day After Saint Patrick's Day.

The cows need to be green.

Lawyerliz said...

Silver Sneakers day. Still cool here. Rained a smidge. Gas 2
2.479.

Lawyerliz said...

From Florida.

dilbert dogbert said...

looks like the Jet Stream hates SoCal!!!

dilbert dogbert said...

LBD
Thanks for the bridge UTube. Wonder if they will find the tensioning system failed due to environmental embrittlement like happened on the new Bay Bridge span?

LBD said...

I am appalled at the work being done with traffic flowing. There is always a chance of some kind of failure with new technology. My guess the the concrete failed, tension rod should have been way under true load spec. IMO

Rob Dawg said...

Wonder if they will find the tensioning system failed due to environmental embrittlement like happened on the new Bay Bridge span?

So many things wrong with that design. I'm sure if you snapped your fingers and put the entire structure(s) in place and fine tuned it would have been fine. Thing is they were allowing live loads before the span had settled. Concrete in tension at the end of a span. Nothing worse.

Rob Dawg said...

New post. The deck is progressing nicely. It won't fail under load.