But First, What Is Corned Beef? Glad you asked. Corned beef is a cut of beef—most often brisket—that’s been cured, or preserved, with salt. It’s usually seasoned with sugar and other spices (like ...

I'll be honest with you: The last time I made corned beef and cabbage for my husband's Midwest family, it was actually inedible. I'm talking so dry and rubbery you could barely even cut it with a ...

St. Patrick’s Day is this week, meaning it’s almost time to don your best green suit, set a leprechaun trap and cook a festive Irish meal. The holiday celebrates the patron saint of Ireland who, ...

Corned beef, simply put, is beef brisket cured and brined with salt and spices before (typically) being boiled. Corned beef and pastrami are similarly prepared but tend to be made of different cuts of ...

Stove top method, brought to a boil and simmered. I don't have any reason, other than "That's the way Maw done it" so if you have an argument, I'm all ears. Also, few things in the world smell better ...

Corned beef brisket is best known as the dinner du jour for St. Patrick’s Day, but the meal doesn’t have to be reserved solely for the Irish holiday. When prepared in a slow cooker, the meat is ...

On St. Patrick's Day plenty of us will get our Irish on. And that means cooking and chowing down on plenty of corned beef. There will be sandwiches made with mounds of thinly sliced corned beef and ...

As soon as it's warm enough to fire up the grill, cookout season has begun. Turn on Wendy Rene's "Bar-B-Q" (the ultimate outdoor cooking song) and dig out that bag of woodchips. It's time to smoke ...

I have always lived among the Irish. I grew up in Boston, a legendary Celtic hub, and settled in Missoula, Montana, 100 miles downstream from America’s most Irish city per capita: Butte. I used to ...