I love corned beef however been caught up in the cheap supermarket stuff for far too long.  Couple of weeks ago I said to Maggie, this one has no flavour.

Found out the Gatton Butcher does his own so went for a look and selected a nice chunk from his window.

Was very, very different and I could actually taste the saltiness which I like.  The white sauce was mustard and black pepper infused and the potato bake left over from last night.

Tomorrow night going to make corn beef and potato pie although will do them in the form of a pasty.

Oh the butcher had some very nice pieces of pickled pork. I will grab some next time.

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Hi Derek
Thanks for the photograph
It look like you have found a good spot to get your meat.
Enjoy
Kev

Have u thought about making ur own corned beef? The supermarket stuff is all injected watered down tasteless stuff. I dry cure my bacon and ham but have also cured smaller topside beef the same way for corned beef. It’s a process but it’s not that hard to do.

WB want recipe do you use, use to do my own but lost the recipe. May need to have a better look. Cheers

No, never thought of making my own actually.

I just put on a 1kg piece of beef that I took outa freezer last night. I was gunna use it to make cheese an jalapeño smoked sausage but I can get more. Used 2.5% salt, .25% cure #1.
Vac sealed on the moist setting and put in fridge.  U can add whatever spices u want at that stage. Will turn it over every couple days for next week.

Had a surprise today and at IGA of all places.  Was looking through the meat section and Lo and behold they had corned brisket.  Corned beef here has always been silverside so I was pleasantly surprised.

They were flat sections of brisket and I couldn’t resist it.  I recall in days gone by when we used to buy corned brisket rolled and I still recall those nice rounds of meat.

Cooked it for dinner and was very very tasty.

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Good looking meal mate cheers

I cooked a lump of corned beef a few days ago and did something different although I do recall my Mum doing this with tinned corned beef.

All I did was make a batter, dip slices in it and fried it.  Maggie had never had it before and was quite impressed at the flavour.

We both did agree though that one slice that thick would have been enough.   :D

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Was wandering through Coles the other day and they had quite a bit of corned silverside.  Some were a nice size just for the two of us so grabbed one.

Imagine my surprise when I got home and found out it was salt reduced.  Not sure I have ever seen that before.

I wonder how it will taste.   :-?

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Done the same last year will never buy another one. Full salt with a good layer of fat onthe top. Cheerx

Still getting disappointed in what I can buy. 

Just doesn’t seem to have the nice salty flavour that it had in days gone by.  The last one I threw in a handful of extra salt into the cooking water and still was bland.

Might have to start making my own. 

Use too do my own but find the foodland/IGA bits here are good and tasty, same with there pickled pork when it is in stock. Agree that salt reduced  stuff is crap. Needs a nice fat cap for flavour as well.