Irish Roast with Cabbage

 Original recipe: Cabbage on the bottom, red bliss potatoes stuffed into the nooks and crannies, slab of corned beef on top sprinkled with pickling spices and then one or two bottles of Juengling lager. I use a cast iron dutch oven that's been the family for decades and is well seasoned and slap on the cast iron lid and let it simmer til done...fork tender.

My version since I didn't have all the ingredients  was to use a chuck roast and  just add a can of beer and pickling spices: cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and dill weed and dill seeds, pepper.  I thickened the broth with corn starch for a nice thick gravy.  I also added carrots to my roast too.

Very tasty and different, since my family never made real Irish food or Mexican food from my heritage.  So now as an adult I'm learning to may more ethnic foods.

Thank you Carolyn Brown Sadowski for the recipe!

Kiss Me I'm Irish!

Funny how many people pretend to be Irish just to celebrate this holiday.  But for me I really am Irish, dark Irish, which some say its black Irish.  Apparently those from the northern territory from Ireland are darker complexion than those from other regions.  I didn't get all my dark complexion from the Irish though as I have some Mexican mixed in there too from my mom's side.

I didn't grow up around my father's family so I don't know the family traditions but from what I heard it involved a lot of drinking and a lot of singing.  But I do know that Hart is an Irish name and my paternal grandma's name Thornton is Irish too.  So I'm proud to be Irish and kiss me if you can catch me!  he he!