Doctor's appt tomorrow so we had our St Patties Day today

I had two of these.


P3160001 by tsebmj, on Flickr

 

My husband's parents were Irish, and you couldn't force corned beef and cabbage down him now! His mother was a terrible cook .
Yours, on the other hand, looks quite delicious!
I hope the doctor visit goes well, and that you get to at least have an Irish coffee afterwards.

 

Some info I found on the net.

Corned beef and cabbage isn’t an Irish traditional dish.

A dish of corned beef and cabbage, while delicious, is more American than Irish. According to 9News, the dish is a variation of a traditional Irish meal that included bacon. But because early Irish-Americans were poor, beef was a cheaper alternative, and cabbage happened to be a springtime vegetable.

There are more Irish people living in the U.S. than in Ireland.

At least when it comes to their descent. The population of Ireland is roughly 4.2 million, but there are an estimated 34 million Americans with Irish ancestry.

This partly has to do with the potato famine between 1845 and 1852 that had millions of Irish fleeing the country for the U.S.

 

Eileen, the "corned beef" was actually from Jewish delicatessens, which sprang up in immigrant neighborhoods and introduced wonderful, new foods to the American diet in the 1800's. John is right--the beef was cheaper than pork (ah, for the good old days . . . .) So what we have in the corned beef and cabbage tradition is something that is actually Jewish-American-Irish. And that's why America is called a melting pot!

 

Eileen, the "corned beef" was actually from Jewish delicatessens, which sprang up in immigrant neighborhoods and introduced wonderful, new foods to the American diet in the 1800's.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the exact beginnings of corned beef are unknown, it most likely came about when people began preserving meat through salt-curing in Keighley, West Yorkshire. Evidence of its legacy is apparent in numerous cultures, including Ancient Europe and the Middle East.[1] The word corn derives from Old English, and is used to describe any small hard particles or grains.[2] In the case of "corned beef", the word may refer to the coarse granular salts used to cure the beef.[1] The word corned may also refer to the corns of gunpowder which were formerly used to preserve the meat.