Celebrating my brothers 50th last week of course involved reminiscing, and a joke was made that I should have just cooked an old family staple as the birthday meal.
Although, if I had done that, my other brother and family would have then had it 3 times in one week.

Corned beef and cabbage.

Boys are quite taken by weird canned things at the best of times, so with the family history being freshly discussed it was well on their minds.
Now, we were spoilt for choice today for RLC, but, oh no…the boys desire to have Corned Beef and Cabbage was such a strong pull that there was no option.

Corned beef and Cabbage.

Tinned corned beef at that, as the recipe was developed by my mother when we lived in a country where access to reasonably priced fresh meat was limited.

1/2 a Savoy cabbage, shredded and fried with 1 onion finely sliced so that  the onion is soft and sweet, then the tin of beef stirred in. A tablespoon of Soy sauce and cooked till the cabbage is still a bit on the firm side. Total cost: $6

Usually, we would serve this with rice, but today was on it’s juicy own.
“Oh yeah” say boys.

Corned Beef and Cabbage.

Sometimes things are worth repeating.