Try the house-made corned beef from this Wheat Ridge meat market on St. Patrick’s Day

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I used to be born on St. Patrick’s Day, which is each a blessing and a curse.

It’s a blessing as a result of folks have a tendency to recollect to want me a great day. In reality, you’d be stunned what number of birthday playing cards you’ll find for folks born on particular holidays.

It’s a curse as a result of it additionally occurs to be one of many largest occasion days of the yr on this nation.

After I was in my 20s, this made it quite a lot of enjoyable. Inexperienced beer in plastic cups. Pints of Guinness (or of Longmont-based Left Hand Brewing’s Nitro stout) and pictures of Irish whiskey or Baileys Irish Cream. Shamrocks and inexperienced wigs and corned beef nachos. As I obtained older, although, the debauchery of March 17 obtained a bit of previous. So, I began celebrating at midnight on March 16, which meant I might keep away from the stumbling drunks on the bars and eating places.

Nowadays, my celebrations are a bit of quieter, and the one a part of St. Paddy’s Day that I now affiliate with my birthday is the corned beef. However not in nachos. As an alternative, I get house-made corned beef brisket at my favourite butcher store in Wheat Ridge, Edwards Meats.

Edwards Meats on March 6, 2024. Edwards is a 62-year-old family-run enterprise at 12280 W. forty fourth Ave. in Wheat Ridge. (Jonathan Shikes/The Denver Publish)Calling Edwards a butcher store, nevertheless, in all probability isn’t correct. This 62-year-old family-run enterprise at 12280 W. forty fourth Ave., is extra just like the Finest Purchase of meat, carrying filet mignon, brief ribs, Wagyu, veal cutlets, bison ribeyes, ahi tuna, elk steaks, octopus, tri-tip, steelhead trout, catfish filets, rack of lamb, frog legs, marinated hen, slab bacon, smoked pork chops, alligator meat, rabbit, quail and duck. In the event that they don’t have it, you in all probability can’t discover it in Colorado.

The meat is only the start, although. There may be additionally nearly every little thing a chef, griller or smoker might need, together with dozens of types of spice rubs, marinades, sizzling sauces, glazes, smoked wooden chips, logs and charcoal. There’s additionally a small produce and grocery part, an unlimited array of sausage and jerky, and a deli serving sandwiches.

And round St. Patrick’s Day, Edwards goes entire hog on different meaty choices, together with Irish again bacon, Guinness beer sausage, Belfast bangers and extra.

However again to the corned beef, which is brined and flavored with a magically scrumptious mixture of spices like peppercorn, mustard seed, bay leaf and dill. I’ve tried to re-create the combo at residence, however the corned beef (and corned bison) at Edwards all the time tastes a lot better.

And that’s for the most effective, because it means I can drop in and choose up one thing else as properly, like a number of sizzling hyperlinks, or the bacon-wrapped filet mignon.

Glad birthday to me.

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