How To Make A Traditional Irish Dinner

We all know how this will end. With that in mind, let's get to it.


Step 1: Find corned beef.
Step 2: Boil corned beef.

Step 3: Wash potatoes.
Step 4: Prep cabbage. If potatoes take an hour to boil, cabbage takes 10 minutes. It cooks very fast. I like to cut it like thus:

...leaving about half an inch of connective tissue near the root. Then just before I'm ready to boil it I cut it the rest of the way. That 1) looks cool, 2) makes you look cool, and 3) takes less space. I like to cut my cabbage a couple hours before I'll be cooking it, so storage is an issue. Maybe that's just me.

Or, you can leave it connected with the connective tissue and boil it "whole." That makes you look great, but you need a rather large cutting board to put the cooked cabbage head on to finish cutting it. And you need a big pan. I use the 4-gallon pot, works fine.


Boil beef, potatoes, and cabbage until done.

Serve with 6-pack of beer per person. Alternatively, just boil a potato and serve with the beer. And that's your traditional Irish dinner.


I bet it's hard being Irish. Seriously, though- look at the Patricks ads. You'll see some green stuff, then a WHOLE SECTION dedicated to beer. It's about a 1:2 ratio of food-to-beer in Patricks Day ads. Kind of lends credence to the whole joke, y'know.