Corned Beef and Cabbage and other St. Patricks Day celebration meals

Preparing your own traditional Irish meal, like corned beef and cabbage, is a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Image from Flickr.

St. Patrick's Day is  Wednesday. Are you hoping to make the Irish-American traditional corned beef and cabbage, or are you looking for some more traditional recipes for this St. Paddy's Day? No matter how you are planning to celebrate this green holiday, you shouldn't have to contact a payday lender - Irish fare can be very quick and inexpensive to prepare.

Corned Beef and Cabbage - the Irish-American Tradition

Look at just about any celebratory menu for St. Patrick's Day, and you're likely to see a corned beef and cabbage special. Corned beef is simply a brine (salt and sugar water) cured beef, usually made of the brisket cut of the cow. Corned beef did not actually originate in Ireland, where beef and salt were an incredibly rare and expensive delicacy. The various Irish famines also made it very difficult to raise cows, which would have consumed much of the grain that Irish families could eat themselves.

However, when Irish citizens began to immigrate to the United States, they discovered that beef and salt were much less expensive than the bacon joints they used in their traditional dishes - and took a cue from Jewish immigrants on how to prepare this dish. Since the 1800s, Corned Beef and Cabbage has become the Irish-American version of the original Bacon and Cabbage.

Corning your own beef for corned beef dishes

You can purchase corned beef in packages, especially around St. Patrick's day. Rather than spending the $4.99 a pound that corned beef usually costs, however, you can save yourself from getting payday loans no credit check by corning your own beef. It will take a few extra days, so you will need to start today to have it ready by St. Patrick's day. You will need: ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Corned Beef and Cabbage and other St. Patricks Day celebration meals"