Yeah just what on the top of my Christmas want list, right after a Chia pet,and a store bought fruit cake! Shamrock ' s have 3 leaves not 4. I like my pig baked on top of sauerkraut or boiled with potatoes .
No Irish/ Welsh , but what is really funny here in Maryland no matter what where your family came from sauerkraut is always found on a Thanksgiving table. Being in the food business I'm telling you that here just about every family who sits down at a Thanksgiving table Sauerkraut is served.
Sauerkraut only belongs on hot dogs. Shoot, my Mother used to make something involving pork and sauerkraut that my father loved. The meat was so danged fatty that I'd get sick everytime she made it. It was the most disgusting dish that I ever sampled. Apparently my father grew up on the stuff, but Grandmother (never met her. She died before I was born) was German. Apparently 'old country' stuff.......
No kraut up here. But New England boiled dinner. Which is not a whole lot different then corned beef and cabbage
Probably a "Waste not, want not..." dinner. The old timers wasted nothing and made a dish out of Anything. I could not understand why my Dad was the only one willing to eek out the meat from a chicken or turkey neck but he grew up during the depression with 10 other brothers and sisters.
Polish and Bohemian family here. Still have Sauerkraut at all the holiday meals along with smoked sausage and fresh sausage. Both of which are bought at a Polish deli. Only a few of us like the sauerkraut. Sauerkraut on Bohemian dumplings.....yes, and it counts.
One dish mom made during the winter months was sour beef and potato dumplings . That sure the heck ain't Irish. But like Tommy said my parents were depression era. Nothing went to waste. I recall when mom passed she had like 8 cake tins full of buttons. She always saved the buttons from any item that was no longer wearable. Truly a different time...... and mind set.
Interesting how a discussion about some overpriced and ugly little coins turns to sauerkraut and depression era food. Yes, I believe all of us that know or knew our depression era relatives are aware of what seems to us unusual dishes. Crazily enough some of their "comfort" foods get passed down the generations, I know there are some that I even like.
It's nice when these threads morph... it gives us a chance to get to know each other better and share on subjects we would not normally post otherwise.
