Despite the heathens at our corner market, where management continues to fail to stock any corned beef brisket for the holiday,* Tam managed to find a good-sized one at a nearby big-box store, an overgrown five-and-dime that also sells milk and eggs (and everything else: makeup, wine, floor wax, car parts, orthopedic shoes, cookies, bras, waxed cookies that taste like orthopedic shoes and bras for your car).
With that and cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onion and black-eyed peas, we should be stocked for our New Year's Day meal.
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* I don't know what's wrong with them. Possibly the high-level corporate people are from some dreadful parochial backwater where they don't eat corned beef on New Year's, but you'd think they'd at least be willing to learn. Year after year, they continue to not stock the stuff as December turns into January; you can't even order it, even though they do that for turducken. Is corned beef just too déclassé for the cheese-and-chamber-music set? If so, how come they sell it cooked, cold and sliced at the deli counter?
If they are from the backwater known as New York City, corned beef is something found only in delis and Irish pubs, not something for a big sitdown dinner.
ReplyDeleteOf course my local chain supermarket puts out a big display of Passover matzah for the Jewish New Year...
Happy 2020.
If that is too de classe, imagine their horror at the traditional Applachian New Years Day meal of hog jowls and black eyed peas.
ReplyDeleteCorned beef and cabbage sounds much better than the Southern (mandated by law I think) hog jowls and black-eyed peas. I'm an adult now and I don't have to eat either.
ReplyDeleteCan you get the corned beef around St. Patrick's Day, or has the area gone completely heathen?
My best to for the coming year to the citizens and staff at Roseholme Cottage.