The brisket I corned myself was way, WAY better than a store-bought corned beef. Typical. Store food really does suck.
Basically, it tasted like beef with nice seasoning, rather than a chemical salt lick. Which means now I will be stuck having to brine my own corned beef forever more*.
Brining our own whole brisket also means that I have a LOT of leftovers. This makes me very happy, because there are few leftovers better than those from a full corned beef dinner. I particularly love the potatoes, which soak up all the yummy flavor and so are basically pre-seasoned.
It also occurs to me that I still have a couple of jars of sauerkraut in the Pit of Despair. You know what that means, don't you? The best Reuben sandwich EVER is within my grasp. I just have to get some Swiss cheese. And make some Thousand Island dressing (essentially mayonnaise, ketchup, and bread and butter pickles, all of which I have on hand). And do those things before we eat all the corned beef up.
I may not manage it. But then I would have an excuse to make another corned beef. I can handle that.
* For Haley, who asked: Nope, I didn't use the sodium nitrite to preserve the red color. Mostly because I didn't care if it was red and I wasn't about to hunt down a special ingredient for a one-time thing. It didn't turn out a nasty gray as I'd expected; it just looked brown, like any braised meat. A. said he kind of wished it was red, but I couldn't care less.
6 comments:
And make the rye bread? I hat caraway seeds, so most of the store bought is a no-go for me.
Err, I hate caraway seeds. I don't know how one would go about hatting seeds.
Gosh I still daydream about the Reuben we made with homemade rye bread and a locally made awesome corned beef. Sounds divine!
Ah--I just remembered: we have a loaf of high quality rye bread in the freezer! Now for the Swiss cheese--
goodness, gracious!
i suddenly feel i NEED to know where you live so i can just happen to drop by for dinner.
This is the first year that I haven't made corned beef (made Shepherds Pie instead which was SENSATIONAL), but now I want a corned beef sandwich ruuuuuuuuuuuuuully bad.
Because you said Reuben and sauerkraut and now I must have it.
Good thing there's a brisket in the chesty...
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