Unleash Holiday Corned Beef (and Turkey!) All-Year!

(Gerry Furth-Sides) Unleash the corned beef at home- and while we are at it, do the same with turkey! Somehow we eagerly eat corned beef sandwiches at a deli all year long without a thought. But serving it at home means St. Patrick’s Day week, just as Turkey has become symbolic for Thanksgiving.

One case for it is the hearty, festive dinner for the occasion hosted by @table conversation.

St. Patrick’s Day everywhere is thought of as a joyous national celebration of all things Irish and green in food, drinks, and fashion to honor “the Emerald Isle.”  Corned beef and cabbage enjoy a special place on the table.  So does soda bread.  Both are proof that this holiday has come a long way from being a day of mourning for the patron saint of Erin into an Irish parade of rebellion against discrimination in American

The wildly popular Old Ebbitt Grill, a fixture in Washington since 1856, did the prep work. corned beef and cabbage, red potatoes and carrots. Thermal packaging kept them cold and comfy during their long journey. Old Ebbitt Grill imagined this as a meal in their restaurant known for hospitality. This meant adding butter and chopped fresh parsley for the vegetables. A jar of corned beef braising liquid to add to the meat and the vegetables for reheating. And, of course, cooking instructions so that everything came out perfectly. 

Horseradish sauce was so creamy and delicious it could go on everything you eat. too, so delicious I could have eaten it straight, by the spoonful.

The wine, perfect with corned beef, was the 2017 Hallowed Stones Estate Cabernet Franc from Watermill Winery. The name reflects where the grapes grew, the Rocks District of Milton-Freewater, which is in the Walla Walla Valley in Oregon, about 10 miles from Walla Walla, Washington. The back label explains how the roots of the vines pick up minerality from the rocky soils, and how the grapes grow low enough to bask in solar radiation from the stones.

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St. Patrick’s Day has changed from a day of mourning for the patron saint of Erin into an Irish parade of rebellion against discrimination in American and finally into a joyous national celebration of all things Irish and green in food, drinks, and fashion to honor “the Emerald Isle.”  Corned beef and cabbage enjoy a special place on the table. So let’s do the same for it!