Scattered Thoughts . . .

I 'm feeling well enough this weekend (not to be confused with feeling well...  I was just feeling well enough) to cook a larger than average meal today so we're having corned beef and cabbage today, St Patrick's Day. I put the corned beef in the oven about an hour ago and it will be in the oven almost all afternoon.  The house is already smelling delicious! Most recipes call for simmering corned beef on the stove but I'm not much a fan of boiled meats.  Back awhile ago, I tried a Dutch oven...  that was better than boiling but it still was lacking.  Besides, neither one of us likes cleaning the Dutch oven either! Then I decided to slow cook the corned beef in the oven, covered, with spices and fresh onions and garlic.  I add a bit of liquid to this too (beef stock, watered down to cut the salt a bit) and then seal it up in foil.  It slow cooks for at least an hour per pound. This is the same way I slow cook pork so I don't know why I didn't always cook my corne

A s expected, we ate too much corned beef and cabbage last night.  That was good!  We always eat so much corned beef that we run out of meat long before running out of potatoes, cabbage and carrots.  In the future, perhaps I should make about four pounds of corned beef whenever I make this meal.  We finished dinner completely stuffed...  over-stuffed. Now that was a good meal.