Re: St Patrick's Day - what are you making?
Posted: Mar 17, 2009 10:41 pm
Just bringing up an old post because the recipe forums have been SO S-L-O-W. Who made corned beef and cabbage today for St. Patty's Day????
I did last weekend because I generally do easy stuff during the week and cook big fun stuff on the weekend. So I did two briskets on Saturday and DH has been eating leftovers since then. He finished the last of the corned beef and mashed potatoes tonight for supper. (He doesn't do cooked cabbage, but I like it.)
Lesson Learned: Don't throw everything in the pressure cooker. I absolutely LOVE my pressure cooker, especially for meats and for pea soup. But this time I decided to throw the potatoes and cabbage in the pressure cooker with the corned beef. I knew the cabbage cooks fairly quickly, but I didn't want to mess with an extra pot on the stove, so in it went with the rest. Well, 50 minutes later the beef was PERFECTLY falling apart good, the potatoes were ready to mash . . . . . but the cabbage was completely MUSH. I ate a little bit, but threw the rest away, all the flavor was cooked out of it, it was just stringy shreds formerly known as cabbage. So next year, I may use the pressure cooker for the meat and potatoes, but I won't mind dirtying another pot for cooking the cabbage separately!
Hope you all had a great St. Patrick's Day!!! This is irish beer!
I did last weekend because I generally do easy stuff during the week and cook big fun stuff on the weekend. So I did two briskets on Saturday and DH has been eating leftovers since then. He finished the last of the corned beef and mashed potatoes tonight for supper. (He doesn't do cooked cabbage, but I like it.)
Lesson Learned: Don't throw everything in the pressure cooker. I absolutely LOVE my pressure cooker, especially for meats and for pea soup. But this time I decided to throw the potatoes and cabbage in the pressure cooker with the corned beef. I knew the cabbage cooks fairly quickly, but I didn't want to mess with an extra pot on the stove, so in it went with the rest. Well, 50 minutes later the beef was PERFECTLY falling apart good, the potatoes were ready to mash . . . . . but the cabbage was completely MUSH. I ate a little bit, but threw the rest away, all the flavor was cooked out of it, it was just stringy shreds formerly known as cabbage. So next year, I may use the pressure cooker for the meat and potatoes, but I won't mind dirtying another pot for cooking the cabbage separately!
Hope you all had a great St. Patrick's Day!!! This is irish beer!