St. Patricks Day Dinner

[alexandria674]

Beef stew, mash potatoes and cabbage with some soda bread
For dessert we are having Baileys and coffee with a lovely pecan sandy on the side and I am going to sneak some peppermint chocolate cookies for myself.

 

[binny]

uh-oh. Corned beef and boiled dinner was a staple when I was growing up (it's not just for St. Patrick's Day!)

My mom won't get her corned beef and cabbage today. She's in Rehab after a lengthy hospitalization and she's on a restricted salt diet. It looks like I'll have to promise a version of this meal once she's home. (although, she won't get too much sodium on my watch!)

Just an FYI you can take away a lot of salt content by soaking for a few hours in plain water in the fridge. I almost always do it that way, then roast instead of crock pot it.
Here is the recipe I normally use


Saint Patrick’s Roasted Corned Beef


Ingredients
For Corned Beef
3 to 4 pound Corned Beef
Bake Pan

½ cup granulated sugar

Method
Take corned beef out of package and soak in water for at least 2 hours(to remove some of the saltiness). Take out of water and place on a broiler pan or elevated oven rack. Roast Corned Beef in a preheated 275 oven for 3.5-4 hours. Sprinkle sugar over corned beef and cook an additional 30 minutes. Take out of oven and slice. Dig in!





Today my corned beef is slow roasting, wrapped tightly in foil in the oven. I am going to do soda bread (NO raisins!) corn bread, potatoes and carrots. ( I am going to need a week to get all those carbs out of my system!)