National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day, In the News, and Enjoy

National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day - Today is National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day!

In the traditional Irish Corned Beef and Cabbage recipes, salt pork or bacon joint were used instead of corned beef. Sometime in the mid 1800′s when the Irish immigrated to America, they found that Jewish corned beef was very similar in texture to bacon joint. It was then that corned beef was used as a replacement for the bacon when preparing corned beef and cabbage meals. Soon after, Irish-Americans began having Corned Beef and Cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day.

Corned beef and cabbage remains a popular food in some areas of the United States. In Ireland today, the serving of corned beef is geared toward tourist consumption. Most Irish in Ireland do not identify it as native cuisine.

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Saint Patrick's Day, In the News, and Enjoy

Saint Patrick's Day - Today is Saint Patrick's Day or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festival of Patrick").

Saint Patrick's Day is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated annually on 17 March, the death date of the most commonly-recognised patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461).

Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Montserrat. It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora around the world; especially in Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Breakfast - Laura and I had planned to go to a restaurant for brunch following service at Harvest Christian Center Laura decided, however, to produce brunch at our home. She made a delicious meal of thick-sliced applewood bacon, crispy oven fries, fried eggs, and mimosa.

We then settled into comfortable chairs and enjoyed a movie marathon.

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