Month: January 2009

I don’t know how many of you have figured out by now that Bitter is now a food blogger.  Her crazy Oklahoma traditions say that black eyed peas on New Years is good luck.  Here, for Irish families at least, it’s Corned Beef and Cabbage, and since that is my ancestral heritage, we’re having that in addition to the black eyed pea dish.  The corned beef cabbage can be cooked in the slow cooker.  Boiling things for long periods of time is the basis of Irish cooking.  While this cooking process tends to dull flavors, that’s nothing an unhealthy amount of salt (provided largely by the corner beef in this dish) can’t fix.  Once you drink enough whisky, you won’t care too much anyway.  Corned Beef and Cabbage is also the traditional Irish-American dish for St. Patricks Day.