Kalua pig over rice with chile verde sauce.........not very Irish but tasty!

Out to dinner with friends for corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and carrots.
I had a cannoli for desert! (Dessert was included)

Corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots here. Once a year thing and wouldn't mind if we skipped it. He can take all of the leftovers with him to work tomorrow with my blessings, lol.

Rhizo I'm with you, never been a fan of corned beef, cabbage etc...

I honored St. Paddy's day by eating a tossed "green" salad and garlic bread :)

Lol Rhizo..I am the only one that likes a "boiled dinner" so I went with the Bangers and Mash last year..and it was a hit..so did it again. ;)

Carol, would have never crossed my mind to put chile verde on Kalua pork.

Ellen, I had a big wedge of coconut cream pie.. Ate the filling out of the crust..Safeway's bakery crusts are so salty.

There you go Matti..that's the "spirit". Lol

I made that traditional Irish specialty, Pad Thai.

I just go home from St Patrick's Day festivities. We started at 3:30 in one bar where we had a nice corned beef dinner with boiled red potatoes and cabbage, visited a few more pubs then ended up at my friend's house for a corned beef sandwich and Bailey's

C-B & Cabbage. Enough left for a Reuben. Once a year.

We have a real traditional Irish meal on St. Pat's Day - either Irish stew or Shepherd's pie....and Guinness. Corned beef is an American custom.

We had corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots and onions, and it was delicious! We do like this dinner, and probably have it 3-4 times a year. However, we like Reuben sandwiches even more and have those probably 8-10 times a year. If not for the outrageous amount of salt they'd be on the menu even more often.

Funny, I never thought of the bangers and mash for St Patrick's day dinner. Will have to try that for variety! Maybe next year :-)

Shepherd's Pie and Irish stew are on the menu from time to time anyway.

One thing that I do want to try making, and haven't yet, is Irish Soda Bread! We've had that at a couple of catered dinners and just love it!

Three bowls of lamb stew. My son ate nothing. He's been ill for three days now. I take that back, he had a bowl of canned peaches.

Steak, twice baked potatoes and broccoli.

I didn't think of a St. Paddy's day dinner. But bangers and mash (sausages and mashed potatoes and gravy) I'm assuming/hoping. That would have been delicious! Shoot.

Hubby wanted leftover hamburger patties, with fried potatoes and the leftover roasted veggies. And apple pie!

We had corned beef with cabbage, potatoes and carrots...and cornbread. That's one of our favorite meals, and it certainly is an easy meal to fix.

This seems to be the only time of year that corned beef is on sale at a really good price--I now have 8 big pieces of corned beef in my freezer for the coming year.

We had corned beef cooked with carrots, celery, onion, potatoes and cabbage. There were four of us, so no left over CB. :(

Jas, yes..this time of year the stores will carry "bangers" they are a lighter sausage, made with bread crumbs and a light spice.
Costco carries them. They are small mini guys. But this year Safeway had a package. Regular size bought those too, mixed the pan with both. I liked Costcos flavor a bit better.

But if you look online, some recipes call for chicken sausage or Italian. (Midly seasoned.)

Colcahan is one of my favorites..so I stirred my cabbage into my taters.

I love corned beef and cabbage/boiled dinner. I didn't have it yesterday and have never made it. My favorite part is the vegetables, but they must be cooked with the beef. I've had it before where everything was cooked separately and that just doesn't do it for me.

So - anyone care to share how you make it, your favorite tried and true recipe? And do you use gray corned beef or red? I'd like to try it and this is a good time to do so.

Suzieque

I don't know what gray corned beef is, I've only ever seen the red briskets.

Corned beef brisket is really simple to prepare - as long as you buy it already 'corned' - you can do that yourself but I don't bother.

The instructions should be printed on the package. Open the bag and place the beef, juices and the small bag of seasoning that usually comes with it in a large pan. Cover with water. Boil, reduce to simmer. Simmer under the meat is cooked, about 2 to 3 hours depending on how thick the cut is. You can check to see if it's done when it's readily pierced with a knife.I leave the lid on my Dutch Oven.

I usually make 2 briskets at a time because it does shrink as it cooks and I always give meals to my kids to take back home with them. When the meat is done I take it out and place it in pan in a warm oven.

Then I bring the water back to a boil and cook the cabbage, red potatoes and carrots. If I only make one brisket then I have room to add the vegetables and can leave the brisket in the pot.

When done, trim off the fat and slice on a diagonal.

What???? Nobody had 'neeps'? I thought turnips went with the tatties.
Or, do the tatties and neeps only go with the Hagis for Robby Burns dinner. (lol) BTW I love buttered neeps. (skip the Hagis)

Wanda, it's the same here. Corned beef only seems to go on sale for St Patrick's day. Last year, I was shocked during the 'off' season to have to pay well over $5 a pound for it. This year, I put 5 pounds of thin sliced deli corned beef (nice for sandwiches and absolutely no waste) and 5 nice sized raw corned beefs in the freezer for use during the coming year. The raw ones were $2.48 a pound, so less than half of the off season cost.

Oh colcahan! I forgot all about that too! We love cabbage, any which way, I keep saying I have to make that, now I'll have to for sure!

I'm with Marie Cate, we had Shephard's Pie and home made soda bread.........Always a favorite....

I had too much bread in the house, but I am baking some Irish soda bread next week. My younger son adores it, so he baked it Sunday and brought it with him to share with friends watching tv. Everyone loved it. I like the Sunset cookbook version.