Slow-cooked Corned Beef
A Variation on My Mother's Recipe
I still wonder how my mom used to manage it all. A full-time job and four kids do not make for light work! I think it is fair to say that it’s one thing when you have the time and energy to cook, but when you have to get family meals on the table mid-week, it’s a whole other ball game. One of my mom’s vices was her crockpot (slow cooker), and a family favourite was her corned beef (also known as brisket).
Ingredients:
1 kg brisket
2 carrots, roughly chopped
2 celery sticks, roughly chopped
1 onion, quartered
peppercorns
Preparation:
Place all ingredients into a slow cooker, cover with water and cook on low for 6-8 hours.
Delicious served with mashed potatoes and steamed cabbage.
Servings:
4
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Andrea Stewart
It’s not surprising that three of Andrea Stewart’s favourite foods are bread, butter and champagne, since her approach to all things culinary has always been pure and simple. This experienced, creative and enterprising chef and editor approaches cooking and eating with a solid appreciation for fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. Andrea’s journey with food began while living in France, working as an au pair for Grace Jones. While feeding the young offspring of the famous singer, she was tempted on a daily basis by the busy, colourful French food markets. Later on, she spent a summer at Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise Ritz-Escoffier and fell in love all over again with everything France had to offer. Upon returning to Canada, she was accepted at the acclaimed Stratford Chefs School and after completing her first year she headed to New York to further sharpen her skills, working alongside some of the finest (including Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto) and catering Martha Stewart’s executive meetings. Andrea returned to Toronto in 1996, and further immersed herself in her career, working at some of the city’s top food fixtures, including Mildred Pierce and Ace Bakery. She eventually took a side-step out of the kitchen and into the halls of magazine publishing, landing a position as Food Editor of Wish Magazine in 2004. While inspiring busy Canadian wonder-women to cook from scratch, she published her first cookbook, Wish, Market to Table. From street food to fine dining to unfamiliar grocery stores, food still motivates Andrea at every turn. She recently sold everything but a prized collection of cookbooks and moved to the U.K., where her culinary library spans the two floors of her London flat. She won’t rest until she has cooked from every one of them!