Thoughts on corned beef ; Satan's dung or wholesome old fashioned f ayre??

[moondog]

Am at veritable culinary crossroads....

ham hock

baked beans are actually really nutritious, they are almost a whole meal in one tin.
and good for fussy kids, though we do buy organic no added salt and all that jazz ones.

Yes I know AL but they freak me.
It is that sweet glutinous sauce.

Sal,I buy hocks to eat as they are too.
£1:50 from the butchers and enough meat to do sarnies for 4-6.

Hi
this will makeyou feel sick but my sister in law served this for tea with salad
Corneed beef mixed with mayonaise , coconut, tomato sauce curry powder and sweetcorn.
Was looking through jamie oliver last night and there was a nice receipe for cornede beef something or other with a poached egg on top, looked nice

I buy them cooked Sal.

Oh My God El.

She should be logged up!

Did you eat it?????

I used to have corned beef sandwiches for lunch at school and quite liked them until someone told me they were blood covered warts that had been dried out....YUK! Never touched it since.

My mother loves corned beef because it reminds her of the only opportunities she ever had to eat meat during the war.

My dad can't bear corned beef because it reminds him of the only opportunities he ever had to eat meat during the war.

Personally I fall somewhere between the two: I love the taste but loathe the quality and avoid thinking about what goes into it. I would always have it cold, straight out of the tin. Corned Beef Hash bleurgh!

Yes must start cooking them.
Very impressed by your talk of soup making.

(And guffawing at your camping farting story)

I was brought up to look down on corned beef even though we were quite poor. DP's Mum who is from the Guyana does a fantastic corned beef and cabbage. It is really spicy with lots of tobacco and is amazingly good to eat.

Basically you fry onions, garlic and strips of cabbage until soft then you add, tabasco, loads of black pepper, Worcester Sauce. Soya Sauce pinch of Cayenne Pepper and crumble a stock cube over it. You then add your corned beef and mix well and then cook it until it tastes good.

I like corned beef but never liked admitting it. After reading that link from iota I can now proudly eat a corned beef sandwich in public (I can't believe it's not crap).

However, I couldn't eat the tinned stuff. Only chiller cabinet bully for me. Makes me feel better.

My SIl's mother makes a corned beef pie to die for! Moondog, if you tried it you would kiss her feet for the recipe

you might all like to know that when the mad cow scare was on this country it was considered extremely safe to eat corned beef as most of it had come from argentina, and yes it does taste nice

I am starting to get depseratley worried after today that mumsnet has turned a snob corner it will never get out of, which is very sad by all accounts

drosophila my dh will love that. he's away now for a few weeks but i'm going to bookmark that recipe and serve it with mash when he comes home. it looks delicious!

Love corned beef (very different over here in the USA, but still wonderful) and was gutted when couldn't buy it during the Falklands War (it all came from Argentina then). Dripping and Bovril sandwiches are the best by the way. Can't stand tripe, particularly after i found out which part of the anatomy it was. Cooked heart, tongue and sheeps brains and don't really like any of them. My dad had to eat sheep's eyeballs once to not offend his Arab guests when in Abu Dhabi. Yuk

How is it in the States AB?
More like regular slicesof beef?

by the way - does it really have to have tobacco in? Is that 10 Regal Kingsize finely chopped? Or will a slug of tobasco do instead?

BLEUGH to corned beef I'm afraid ! My mother used to buy it all the time coz it was cheap - and I used the Falklands war to make a conscientious objection to it and am glad to say have not eaten it since !

Doesn't anyone eat Reuben sandwiches? Yummmm...

mine was 10 lambert and butler and a box of matches. bleugh. then the luxurious Silky Cu*ts (sorry - a teenage joke) for 13 or so years. then fag-free.