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If your corned beef is what we call salt beef, then I really like it. My Mum comes from the East End of london and salt beef with peese (split yellow pea dahl) pudding was a common dish there (of jewish origin) that we eat regularly.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 04:10:34 PM EST
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Hi Helen,
Our corn beef is a brisket or some kind of cheaper cut, that is soaked in a brine and spices for 2 weeks. Then simmered with vegies. I've never actually 'corned' one before, but now have one happily brining away in the fridge. To tide me over until it's ready, I just had to buy one from the grocer. Himself is complaining bitterly that he's going to be subjected to not one, but two corn beef dinners---plus leftovers.....
Next on my list is to do a pastrami from scratch. I love a hot pastrami on rye, but they don't exist in New Mexico!
Come for dinner!
Elaine

by ElaineinNM on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 04:19:48 PM EST
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Ship him to DC. I'll fix him.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 04:21:29 PM EST
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Ooooh, doing my own pastrami is on my list of things to do. It's hideously expensive over here, but eating it with dill pickled small cucumbers is too addictive.

Are you smoking it ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 04:26:17 PM EST
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Nobody knows what ATinNM smokes, but I have a pretty god idea. sic

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 04:50:18 PM EST
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I don't have a smoker, but I've found directions on the web for soaking charcoal briquettes in water to create smoke. I also found an article that has you slow simmer the meat and spices, with very little water, so it's cooked, then you can smoke it a bit.

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

by ElaineinNM on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 05:10:18 PM EST
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No, I've always wanted to do the smoking. don't have a smoker but there are lots of plans on the internet and I have "ideas"

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 05:54:40 PM EST
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<Worries about people with "Ideas">

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 06:52:32 PM EST
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and well you might.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 07:00:40 PM EST
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Next on my list is to do a pastrami from scratch.

My cup of joy floweth over. Yea, full merrily.

by ATinNM on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 04:35:47 PM EST
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