Re: Dinner Tonight 1/19/2025 will be Corned Beef & Cabbage

On 1/19/2025 12:20 PM, Jill McQuown wrote:

I thawed out a corned beef brisket I froze last March and put it in the crock pot on HIGH with a couple of cups of water, the pickling spice packet and a couple of bay leaves.  No worries, Mike, I will not be leaving it unattended and I doubt it will catch on fire.  Towards the end of cooking I'll quarter the cabbage and place it on top of the brisket and let it simmer (the cabbage will mostly steam) with the brisket until tender.  This will net me several meals.  I love corned beef & cabbage. :)
 Jill

Sounds good!  How long do you cook the brisket for in the crock pot?  On high?  I have a cryo-vac'd corned beef brisket in the deep freezer that I might prepare the same way, except I'll add some quartered small red potatoes (which I know you're not a fan of) in with the cabbage.
Tonight, we had a pot of Seafood Gumbo served over rice, from Joy of Cooking book.  We used frozen okra, and substituted minced frozen crawfish for crab, which was sold cryo-vac'd in the grocery freezer section.  We also added coined Andouille sausage.