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This is a potatoe/cabbage and other things in Scotland or Ireland and is a usual sidedish to Corned Beef. Anyone have a recipe for it????
Michael in FtW said:Here are two:
This one is from Tyler Florence ... (I saw the episode where he went to Ireland to get this one)
Ishbel said:The Scots version of Irish Colcannon is called Rumbledethumps (I kid you not!)
Here's my family recipe
Ishbel said:I've used kale if that's what I've got in the kitchen at the time.
As for the cheddar - I'm not sure whether this is 'traditional', in the sense of being an ingredient in every version of rumbledethumps, but it's in my family 'receipt' book ... so we've been eating it like that for a very long time!
Interestingly, corned beef and cabbage was not an Irish dish until the American tourists went to visit Ireland and asked for the dish! I've read that it is an American dish that Irish immigrants in one of the main cities invented to remind them of home. In Ireland it was always more usual to eat boiled bacon (or gammon) with colcannon. However, when you go to pubs in some ares of Ireland that have a lot of tourists from the USA, you can now get 'corned beef and cabbage'...
Ishbel said:As I'm not Irish, I don't buy into the St Patrick's Day celebrations!
BUT, I've got lots of Irish friends and most of them don't go 'mad' on the Irish-ness, either. For most of them, it is a religious holiday, not a green beer day! Although, my husband was in Dublin a couple of years ago, and said that they are getting much more into the swing of things, in the American way, but he thought it was probably because tourists expect it!
BUT, I've never known the Irish (or the Scots, for that matter) to resist an excuse for a 'hooley' as they call it