Category Archives: beer
3 myths busted about corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day
Corned beef and cabbage: Myth #1: it’s too involved to make. Myth #1 busted. It’s much easier to braise a piece of corned beef with a passle of veggies than sourcing, searing and saucing those Korean short ribs you’ve been coddling in the slow cooker for a week. Myth #2: it has so many ingredients, […]
August in Maine means blueberries, baking and beer
Maine produces foods that are iconic: lobsters chief among them. But at a certain “tilt” of summer, Maine blueberries, tiny with a sweet/tart burst on the palate, are a must-have in the kitchen. I know it’s hot, blasted hot some days in August. Take a deep breath, set the oven to 350 degrees, turn on […]
Debate this: is corned beef and cabbage Irish or American?
I can’t recall my mother ever making corned beef and cabbage, but I’ll bet that’s because she knew we kids wouldn’t eat it. Cabbage? Only as cole slaw on the side of our Monarch Diner’s Friday night fried clam dinners. My grandmother by marriage, Margaret Mary McCarthy, made New England boiled dinners, a descendant of […]