I love traditions -- keeping up with old or making new, I LOVE them! As long as I can remember, every year my family has celebrated St. Patrick's Day with the Stalder Family. In fact, I think the tradition may have started before I was even born. But, when is not important -- the fun we have together is. Every year Cindy makes corned beef and cabbage and we eat just about every green veggie imaginable along with mashed potatoes and gravy and green Kool-Aid. And ALWAYS have Grasshopper pie for dessert. yummmmm! In the past couple years, us kids have made celebrating more difficult by going to college and moving away.
So, this year I decided to try making my own corned beef and cabbage. How hard can it be? Well, the picture above is definitely not my end result. It was ok -- it tasted like corned beef, but it wasn't the perfect, fall apart, juicy staple Cindy makes. But it's not the food that matters, it's the celebration. I had fun celebrating my Irish heritage (all 1/16th of it!) and I hope you did as well! :-)
How did you cook the corned beef? We cook it in the crockpot all day long. It falls apart at the end of the day. Did you at least have grasshopper pie and green Kool-Aid?
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