Friday, March 21, 2014

Corned beef

Eastside Road, March 21, 2014—
THE FADING HISTORY OF St. Patrick's Day:

Pinot blanc, Fleurelle (Alsace), 2012
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Last night: Corned Beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, turnips
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Tonight: Corned Beef hash with an egg, broccolini


3 comments:

Curtis Faville said...

Betty's Ocean View Diner on 4th Street used to have a breakfast they called the Philadelphia, which consisted of a slab of scrapple, with a poached egg on toast, and fried tomato slices.

Corned beef I think goes into hash--with potatoes, etc. It makes a great breakfast.

Is corned beef Kosher beef? Corned has that odd red color. Why is that?

Charles Shere said...

Red because treated with nitrate, Lindsey says. Nitrate, the substance of fertilizers and ammunition, I add.
"Corned" refers, I think, to the peppercorns in the pickling.

Charles Shere said...

But Wikipediasays the "corn" (obs. English, "grain") refers to the salt, and goes on to assure us that, yes, brisket can be Kosher.