Traditional St. Patty's Day Dinner

I decided to do the whole sha-bang for St. Patrick's Day.

I usually make cabbage and boiled potatoes, but this year I wanted to try Corned Beef as well. I have never made it before, and honestly I wasn't sure exactly what it was.

But I found it at the store, and it just looked like a regular roast...and pretty much it was! But it didn't taste like a roast. I kept saying that it tasted like it was cured...so I looked it up:

Web definition:Corned beef refers to a particular style of brine-cure beef. The "corn" in corned beef refers to the "corns" or gains of course salt used to cure it. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the usage of "corn," meaning "A small particle, a grain, as in sand or salt."

Hmm, ok. So it is cured, although I always thought cured meant it didn't need to be cooked (Like Jerky.) But what I bought was a raw roast.

ANYWAY!

Now I know, and it was delicious! And there is nothing like being festive!