I don’t know what it is about Irish food, but the leftovers make the best breakfast. With the soda bread it’s French toast, with the corned beef dinner it’s corned beef hash. This is so much better than the stuff that comes out of a can, it’s almost worth doing the whole dinner just to have the leftovers.
Ingredients
several slices of leftover corned beef
equal amount — or slightly more — leftover boiled potatoes
small amount of leftover onion
lots of fresh ground black pepper
(If you’re thinking this doesn’t look like a very precise recipe, you’re right.)
Directions
Dice the corned beef into small cubes.
Then dice the onions.
Then — wait, don’t get ahead of me — yup, dice the potatoes.
Now that everything’s diced, melt a couple of tablespoons of bacon fat over high heat in a non-stick or cast iron pan.
Put all the ingredients in the pan and add a generous helping of black pepper.
Toss occasionally until everything is warmed through.
Yeah, okay … that was just showing off. You can stir it with a plastic or wooden spoon. Two or three minutes and you’re done.
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Your post is okay, but your version is NOT Irish. I have been to Ireland MANY times, and if you mention “corned beef hash” to a native, they will LAUGH at you.
And by the way, I don’t know who my grandmother was because my mother Aida, my worthless father and I immigrated to the US when I was only a kid.
Mom died while working in a brooklyn sewing factory after my worthless father (he was a milkman) ran off with a 19-year old floozie.
I now live in a trailer park in Clearwater, Florida with my boyfriend “Big Bear”. You can see his photo on my website and get some good recipes too.
Well, considering corned beef isn’t really Irish, like I said when I posted that one, I would never claim that something I do with the leftovers is traditional Irish, either.
But what does that have to do with how it tastes, anyway? I like it. Anyone who doesn’t want to eat it because it doesn’t pay homage to the “right” identity can go make their own breakfast.
I see the first comment has been left by The TasteSpotting Troll. He has a multiple personality disorder and is a nuisance. This is comment is mild but he has been revolting in other instances.
Banned from forums and sites for harassment he likes Travel and Food topics and must think TasteSpotting’s a gold mine.
Delete or disregard his ramblings which spring forth under many pseudonyms including Elizabeth or Ann or Dock Chuck amongst many others.
Cool fun. Like me. Thanks.
I like to cook very at home. Greetings from Poland.
Thanks, przepisy. (That’s your name?) I wish I could say the same, but I can’t read Polish. I can say your stuff looks good.
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