Saint Ratprick's Day
 

In honor of Saint Patrick's day I want to corn a beef myself. I've no idea how to go about it. Anyone out there got any sugg's?

The beer, cabbage and spuds I am ACE at.

:cheers:

I found this recipe-not sure where to get the Mortons Tender Quick it calls for but maybe the Morton salt website would give a location http://www.leeners.com/meatcure.html

I think I have seen Tender Quick at both Quillins and Wal-Mart. Your local Lardge grocery store should have it, or a custom Butcher. When,s Dinner?

Betty Crocker has a recepie :yum:

I looked into it a while ago. It's a non-trivial task. Unless you're planning on making a lot (8 lbs or more), I don't think it's worth it.

I seem to remember coming across a recipe for it in an older edition of the Joy of Cooking. As I recall, it might be worth the while of an Irish mother of 14 or if you are having 20 or so members of the IRA dropping by to celebrate, otherwise, too much work for me! :headshake

I could help you out with a recipe for Italian spagetti sauce that my Welsh Corgi seems to enjoy, and I also have a recipe for Irish coffee that uses Kentucky bourbon.

I found a USDA website and something at wikipedia. it seems that it is just brine cured bef with a little bit of seasoning. The potassium nitrate (saltpeter) is just to keep it pink.

I'm debating the KNO3 (?) grey versus pink. "same great taste, new look"

Three weeks is the required time for curing, so this may need to wait till next year.

Recipe
 

Epicurious has a pretty detailed recipe. Make sure to read the comments, and you will find this.

I am going to a not-wedding for Genocidal Maniac Day this year.

I am hoping that the not-bride and not-groom do not insist on green beer and all that crap.

St. Patrick was genocidal?

He made all the good, happy pagans into misreable, guilt-ridden Christians.

He also chased the snake (a happy and useful creature) out of Ireland. :headshake

/hisses: bassssstard!

I offended my best friend by offering to buy the corned beef this year because I have given up eating conventionally farmed meat and food processed with nitrates, and now he is upset that his food's not good enough for me anymore. What? I said I'd buy it and I'll cook it too! Nobody complained when I cooked up all the side dishes for our Cajun Christmas using nitrate free bacon and organic veggies, in fact they were a big hit! I'm not sure why we celebrate this holiday anyway since no one in either of our families is Irish, but I guess it's just another excuse to drink.

I hear ya Koz, I did something similar at xmas.
We had friends over for dinner and I made a rib roast - only because I had one on the freezer. It was "my share" of one of the beef cows my uncle is experimenting with at the farm. Organic, grass fed, yadda yadda (pictured here, one of the red guys). I'd never made one before but it came out great.

We went to LJ's mom's the next night for dinner and I told her how awsome the roast was and how it was so nice to have beef without being all freaked out about conventional beef related nasties (she has graciously put up with me not eating beef or most anything else she cooks for many years). And btw, what's for dinner? Oh, a rib roast...:blush:

I pulled out a rump roast and a giant sirloin from the second cow to give to my brother in law in exchange for his plumbing services yesterday, and he just laughed. "Oh, is this your fancy snob-cow-better-than-my-mothers beef?"
Gah....

jinxie-pooh? That's the price one pays for wearing cashmere argyle socks! Seriously, though, I would think they would like to at least compare! i've found that organic veggies are waaaaay better than not. Kobe beef is heaven, too. Maybe they are jealous? :)