Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

We decided to embrace our Irish heritage tonight with some corned beef and cabbage for dinner. I pulled out my pressure cooker to use for the very first time. I’ve had it for about 7 years (it could honestly be more – I don’t remember), so it seemed like maybe it was about time to learn how to use it.

Now that everyone has an Instant Pot, it’s easy to find millions of pressure cooker recipes. I saw one of those mouth-watering videos on Facebook for corned beef and cabbage that looked amazing, so we tried it.

Do people like corned beef and cabbage? I mean really like it. The meat was fine – definitely not something I’ll be craving any time soon, but everyone ate it ok. But the veggies were mush and gush. Flavorless mush and gush. Blech. I’m not someone who particularly likes mush. I can’t even eat a sandwich without chips to add a crunch.

Do you know what crunches? Tacos.

Lettuce is green. Guacamole is green. Salsa verde is green. Next year we’re definitely having St. Patrick’s Day tacos.