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Does the Sour Kraut and Corned beef on a Ruben count as a proper St Patrick Day meal?


               
2025 Mar 17, 3:50pm   534 views  33 comments

by Tenpoundbass   follow (10)  

I Steamed the CB in a bamboo steamer, didn't dry out and oxidize after I sliced it the way it does when I boil it with cabbage. My new favorite way to cook it. I can eat boiled cabbage any day. But Rubens always a treat.
I did have a Guinness with it.

CB sliced thin
butter in the pan
Two slices of Rye bread in the pan after butter melts
Layer CB over one slice of bread, and Swiss cheese on the other,
A thin layer of Sour Kraut over the meat small dollop of Thousand Island dressing
Close the two breads together. Continue grilling each side until golden brown and the cheese is melted.

Surprisingly only one of the small kiddos wanted just mayo on Petridge Farm White Sandwich bread, and provolone, melted in the pan.
The other two kiddos enjoyed the full Monty Ruben as is. My older daughter thought she didn't like Rye, Sour Kraut, and Swiss. But I made a liar out of her.
Pain in the ass having to grill up 4 sandwiches before I can get to mine. But such is the life of a short order cook.

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9   stereotomy   2025 Mar 18, 1:51pm  

WookieMan says

Don't know why, but corned beef is disgusting.

The regular "red" corned beef uses saltpeter, so it tastes mildly like chemical.

Home-made corned beef using salt, not saltpeter, tastes delicious. It's brownish, not reddish. Make it using 100% grass-fed beef brisket and it's a fuck ton of flavor.
10   HeadSet   2025 Mar 18, 7:01pm  

Tenpoundbass says

I like Gyros but only from Greek places that has the meat on the spindle and slice it as you order it.

I have never seen it any other way.
11   komputodo   2025 Mar 18, 10:26pm  

WookieMan says

Does that include sub sandwiches? An Italian sub is amazing if you go to the right place. Go to the places where the guys in there are fat as can be.

Is a gyro considered a sandwich technically? That would be my favorite.

A real GYRO made from meat on the spindle is awesome...It's a kick ass GREEK TACO. Better than a mexican taco.
An Italian panino made on crusty rustic italian bread with some capicola (gabagool), genoa salami, prosciutto, provolone, arugula and some pesto would be incredible. Better than a reuben.
12   komputodo   2025 Mar 18, 10:27pm  

Tenpoundbass says

You either make a Ruben at home, or go to a Deli known for Rubens.

Yeah the meat has to come from a real fresh cooked brisket, not a lunchmeat type of corned beef
13   komputodo   2025 Mar 18, 10:35pm  

Tenpoundbass says

I like Gyros but only from Greek places that has the meat on the spindle and slice it as you order it. Gyroville is gross.

do you pronounce it like YEE-ROW or the American way jAi-row?
14   Tenpoundbass   2025 Mar 19, 4:59am  

HeadSet says

I have never seen it any other way.


Some places have it already sliced, and just throw it on the grill to heat it up. Gyroville has the spindle but they slice it off ahead of time and store it in a warming drawer until you order.

komputodo says

Tenpoundbass says
I like Gyros but only from Greek places that has the meat on the spindle and slice it as you order it. Gyroville is gross.

do you pronounce it like YEE-ROW or the American way jAi-row?


My first job was working for Greeks at a diner, so I have always called it year row.
15   Patrick   2025 Mar 19, 7:44am  

I love Reubens, but could never figure out why Jewish delis would serve something obviously not kosher, because you're never supposed to mix milk and meat.
16   komputodo   2025 Mar 19, 7:54am  

Patrick says


I love Reubens, but could never figure out why Jewish delis would serve something obviously not kosher, because you're never supposed to mix milk and meat.

Because business $$$ trumps religion.
17   HeadSet   2025 Mar 19, 8:26am  

Tenpoundbass says

But Rubens always a treat.

How about the Monte Cristo with the raspberry jelly?
18   komputodo   2025 Mar 19, 8:31am  

HeadSet says

Tenpoundbass says


But Rubens always a treat.

How about the Monte Cristo with the raspberry jelly?

yeah if you are a woman
19   HeadSet   2025 Mar 19, 1:28pm  

komputodo says

yeah if you are a woman

What makes a Monte Cristo female food?
20   komputodo   2025 Mar 19, 1:40pm  

well because in my 68 years of life I have only ever heard my women friends talking about them...Never a man...If i go out to breakfast with a man, i never saw one ordering a strawberry waffle with whipped cream either.
21   Tenpoundbass   2025 Mar 19, 2:36pm  

HeadSet says

Tenpoundbass says
But Rubens always a treat.

How about the Monte Cristo with the raspberry jelly?


I remember Benagin's (remember them?) had a Monte Cristo on their menu. I tried it once. It was a slice of ham, turkey, and cheese(I don't recall jelly) between two slices of bread, then dipped in waffle batter and deep fried. I tried it once. I wasn't impressed because the waffle batter absorbed all of the grease and it partook the flavor of every onion ring and shrimp fried in it that week.

I tried making them one year with the left over Christmas ham and turkey, but I made in a melt style without the batter and deep frying it.
I think I preferred eating the left over holiday meat with the left over stuffing and old school macaroni and cheese casserole. And ladles and ladles of gravy, there must be gravy.
22   Tenpoundbass   2025 Mar 19, 2:38pm  

komputondo does mint jelly with lamb chops pass the manly smell test?
23   HeadSet   2025 Mar 19, 3:06pm  

Tenpoundbass says

mint jelly with lamb chops

When I was a kid, my mom would make that lamb with mint sauce, along with the steak and kidney pie.
24   HeadSet   2025 Mar 19, 3:08pm  

Tenpoundbass says

I remember Benagin's

They were best for their Eggs Benedict.
25   Glock-n-Load   2025 Mar 19, 6:30pm  

Wow, yessir, my top 2 favorite sandwiches…

Reubens and Monte Cristos. Done right, they are amazingly good.
26   komputodo   2025 Mar 19, 10:21pm  

Tenpoundbass says

komputondo does mint jelly with lamb chops pass the manly smell test?

I don't get the mint jelly with lamb thing..I would be more likely to have mine with horse radish or even some roasted and chopped jalapenos with salt and garlic. I also don't get the cucumber sandwich thing with the crusts cut off. Also I don't get the turkey paired with cranberry sauce thing. I would never order a chicken salad or egg salad or chopped olive sandwich either. I guess I have weird tastes in food.
27   goofus   2025 Mar 20, 5:37pm  

“ In processed meats, potassium nitrate [salpeter] reacts with hemoglobin and myoglobin generating a red color, becoming highly toxic and carcinogenic.[7]”


[7]Haldane, J. (1901). "The Red Colour of Salted Meat". The Journal of Hygiene. 1 (1): 115–122.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate

Corned beef does have uncanny reddish pink color. Had it anyway though.
28   stereotomy   2025 Mar 20, 6:24pm  

Best salt your own fresh brisket with regular salt. Less cancer, better flavor.
29   komputodo   2025 Mar 21, 8:41am  

goofus says

Corned beef does have uncanny reddish pink color. Had it anyway though.

so does ham, wieners, and most all cold cuts...
30   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2025 Mar 21, 8:48am  

goofus says

In processed meats, potassium nitrate [salpeter]

Nitrate-free processed meat products seem to be catching on. Even have some at Costco. But I think traditionally appeared jambon, prosciutto lack this carcinogen.
31   Tenpoundbass   2025 Mar 21, 8:54am  

But has anyone tried steaming the corned beef? That was one of the main things I wanted to hype in this thread. It was a game changer. My daughters bought me a bamboo steamer, I was worried it was going to take on a funky bamboo flavor but it didn't.
32   Tenpoundbass   2025 Mar 21, 8:55am  

I might try steaming a roast beef for cold cuts.
33   komputodo   2025 Mar 21, 9:19am  

stereotomy says


Best salt your own fresh brisket with regular salt. Less cancer, better flavor.

yeah and by all means don't cook it in aluminum or buy it if its wrapped in plastic.
If I turn a chunk of pork into ham, i use prague powder (curing salt)...If I just used salt, it would just taste like salted pork, not like ham, and also it would be brownish, grayish. To each his own.

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