The price of corned beef is ridiculous.
There is a large Catholic community here due to Spanish influence but they aren't Irish and most I've talked to have never even heard of pastrami or corned beef or anything else European above Spain.
No sauerkraut either.
Their meat markets aren't even the same.

Eating chili again.

Chili is so good on a cold day!

double recipe of tunisian stew, a dr john mcdougall recipe.
no meat. its a good one.


keith

Another one for chili today! I found over a pound of cooked chorizo in my freezer, and I made the tomato sauce with some soaked, dried tomatoes, plus some moritas, and added about 4-5 tb pure ground chili powder, to the usual onion and garlic, I start it with, to which I added the chiles at the end, plus 1½ tsp Mexican oregano, and 1 tsp cumin powder. I cooked it in in the Instant Pot, with the ground up dried tomatoes and moritas, with just 2 c water added, to stop the cooking of the onion and garlic, then rinsed the Vitamix container out with about a quart of chicken stock, and another cup of water. Then I added 2 c chana dal, 3/4 c barley, and added some soy sauce to taste (more salt later), and put the lid on, and set it to Manual 18 minutes , then let it reduce naturally. Then I tasted for seasoning, which turned out fairly good, and I stirred in the thawed chorizo, and a can of drained and rinsed corn, set it to cook again, this time on Manual low pressure for 15 minutes, and let it reduce naturally. Then I served it with some toasted corn tortillas, and some shredded cheese.
Lentil chili, with a couple of tortillas. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

I found a big sweet potato.
I sliced it and put on some white sugar Steen's cane syrup and black strap molasses.
Popped in the oven covered.
Can't find my marshmallows to save my life.

Corkscrew pasta cooked in just enough water to cook it on simmer without draining.
The water had Knorr tomato chicken bullion powder in it for the salt.
Marinara sauce was added.
Melted mozzarella cheese on top.
Meatless meal today.
The sweet potato concoction is in the oven.
Once it's out it's going outside to cool.
It's basically a custard.

Yesterdays sweet potato concoction aka custard.
It turned out fantastic but I was a little afraid to taste it this morning.
The ingredients were a big baked sweet potato in the molasses Steen's cane syrup and white sugar.
The skin was removed.
Additional ingredients were...
A quarter stick of butter.
A goodly amount of.. Saigon cinnamon.
Ground allspice.
Ground nutmeg.
Basically a pumpkin pie spice.
2 eggs beaten with a fork.
I little flour about a quarter cup.
The sweet potato was mashed up with the fork.
The mixture was mixed up and put in a bowl and baked at 350F for about 50 minutes or until done.
No milk was added.
Very spicy and tasty.