Here the normal cut is a lump of brisket right around 2 kilos (4.4 pounds) which is boiled until stringy, unchewable, and tasteless, sliced so every serving has streaks of Vulcanized fat, served on a drizzle of lukewarm salty water. Accompanying this wonderishness are sides dishes of boiled - 10 hours minimum - onions, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.
Given the dining experience is an exercise in masochism the drink is usually Miller Lite or Budweiser. As this meal is inflicted on people on St. Patrick's Day the beer is normally dyed green.
For reasons passing understanding.
Are you smoking it ? keep to the Fen Causeway
If you find a way to do it without a smoker that works, I'd love to know! I think Craig Claibourn had a recipe in his New York Times cookbook, but my copy is still packed. I'm sure he didn't use a smoker.
Drew, I'm just simmering the corn beef for a couple of hours, then adding the vegies. Himself exaggerates! LOL
I'm looking for a really good dessert to pacify his complaints though. And those complaints coming from someone who would eat lutefisk!!! geesh..... Elaine
<Worries about people with "Ideas"> Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Next on my list is to do a pastrami from scratch.
My cup of joy floweth over. Yea, full merrily.
Stop going all English on your poor corned beef and it won't be a problem.
(ducks) Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Accompanying this wonderishness are sides dishes of boiled - 10 hours minimum - onions, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.
reminds me of public school in england.
one day we were served a plate with one boiled onion on it, no oil, nothing...
the beer being green matches the complexion, facing such gastronomic awe!
ATinNM:
so every serving has streaks of Vulcanized fat, served on a drizzle of lukewarm salty water.
lol, you're born to write cookbooks. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
