We just had the best corned beef and cabbage dinner ever known to man!
Nathan's corned beef, carrots onions, potatoes, cabbage, spices. Cooked for 9 hours. I am dead.
= new reply since forum marked as read
Happy St. Pat's!
But then...well, you know. 
Happy St. Pat's!
Hi Raven! 
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
My DH is half Irish, though I'm not.
Last night we had the usual St. Paddy's dinner for family and friends, a tradition we've been doing for many years.
I baked a Sunshine Cake for dessert. This is a lemon cake mix with a can of mandarin oranges blended into the batter, and a half teaspoon of finely grated lemon peel.
Then I trimmed the all fat off the corned beef, put it in the pot to simmer for about 5 hours with whole cloves, etc.
Mixed up horseradish and sour cream to serve with the beef.
Cleaned and cut up scallions and slowly cooked them in a half stick of butter.
Scrubbed a bunch of red potatoes and cut them into halves and cooked those, to be mashed with hot milk, then combined with the scallions and butter.
Got my daughter to peel the carrots, which we put in whole to boil with the beef.
Cut a couple of cabbages into wedges, to be boiled in the beef broth for no more than 20 minutes.
Frosted the cake with store-bought lemon frosting with crushed pineapple and grated lemon peel instead of the usual Cool Whip, instant pudding and crushed pineapple mixture. Topped it with kiwi slices.
Sat down with my husband, two daughters, the boyfriend of the older one, and two other friends to feast.
We finished with the cake, which came out well despite my tweaks to the frosting. When the girls were younger I used to cover the Cool Whip/pudding icing with green-tinted coconut flakes and put jelly beans and Peeps in the center, sort of like an Easter basket.
If anyone wants the cake recipe I'll add it to the thread.
