chef buck here and today we're going to
 cook up some corned beef in a can
if you've never used corned beef in a
can congratulations
now actually it's a very nice ingredient
I've been eating a lot of this lately
because I'm at my mother-in-law's house
and she always has cans of this stuff
around we've been using it for a lot of
recipes I love it in the morning for a
corned beef hash and I eat it out all
the time but I haven't made it often at
home but lately I have and it is so good
if you make it with fresh potatoes fresh
onion that you saute up and add this
corned beef
you get corned beef hash and a cam at
the grocery store just don't do that
just though there's just a lot of
recipes that you can use canned corned
beef corned beef and cabbage be meeting
a lot of that supa dupa delicioso and so
easy to cook corned beef and a can is
like the spam of beef Fama's pork
ish but beef is beef if you look at the
ingredients on here it is cooked beef
salt sugar sodium nitrite just four
ingredients but if you love corned beef
like real corned beef you're not gonna
find that in this can that's what I'm
saying
but this is a fairly useful canned meat
product that you can just open up your
cabinet and have it there at your whim
and whimsy whenever you like you could
find it in different shapes and sizes
than this here but this is a very
popular way you'll find it which is a
weird-shaped can with this kind of retro
1950s key on the side don't be
intimidated by this what you want to do
is you want to unlock it and pull your
key off I guess they do this here so it
feels like a prize like you won
something or it's like magic and then
you just want to you take the key comes
on a can like this here but turn it
upside down boom then fold your piece of
tin over like that and then just turn it
clockwise and go around the cam and it's
fairly easy to open
and more often than not you won't have a
problem but sometimes you will
I mean sometimes you'll be going around
the can in this bust in fact they've got
instructions on the can for what to do
if the key does break so it doesn't
happen all the time but it happens often
enough that they put it on the can it
opens very easily with a regular can /
so why they got this doohickey on here I
don't know maybe because the way they
pack it in here you know it's hard to
get out if you don't have this little
lid that you open up with some of it
open now I don't always do this but one
thing that they do recommend is that you
poke a little hole in the top of the can
then I make that look more difficult
than it needed to be for science reasons
it will release the pressure but
sometimes I forget to do that and it's
never really been that hard to get out
let me get a little plate so I don't
have much of a mess over here so I don't
have to put it on my cutting board and I
see it kind of plopped right out and
that's what you have you have a lump o
block o beef and it's fully cooked I
mean you can eat it just like this here
now a very easy way to use this is to
just slice it and fry it in a skillet
and it makes a great side for breakfast
or for a sandwich the fact I've got some
from the other day we cooked up a batch
for breakfast but this year I've sliced
and fried in a skillet you can see I've
been gnawing on this piece here
periodically but it's just some slices
of seared beef that I got hanging around
the fridge that I can use for whatever I
want we paid about 450 for this year and
usually you know we find it for less
than five bucks but everything I found
online was like nine and ten dollars
which is just crazy
so about around five bucks is the most
you want to pay for this or at least the
kind of places I shop but we're not
gonna do anything overly fancy with our
canno meat today we're going to make it
very simple beef
Oh dip that doesn't sound all that
inspiring but I mean everybody's sitting
at home now you know we're all eating
bread and crackers and cookies and this
will just be something that you can take
your crackers and dip in maybe something
you never had before this recipe calls
for a very few ingredients I got some
sour cream right here and I didn't have
quite enough sour cream so I added a
little bit of a Greek yogurt in here you
know sour cream and yogurt are pretty
much interchangeable in a lot of recipes
and I have made this before with cream
cheese and it's super delicious but
cream cheese is very dense and this meat
blocko meat is very dense so when you
take that density and mix it with this
density and whip it up in a bowl it's
not as dibble as I would like but you
could half the amount of sour cream and
add cream cheese if you want to so we
got our sour cream and I'm going to
throw one cup of pickle type stuff in
here take any kind of pickle you want
you know and chop it up but you want to
chop it up finely you know you can just
use a relish if you like in fact I used
some of this here and I finished up this
bottle of sweet relish but use whatever
kind of pickle pickle type pickle that
you want to use Boop now if you want a
little bit of heat in there you can add
some jalapeno now I just got some slices
here that I minced up but that's
optional that's only if you want heat
now if you don't have jalapenos another
nice item to have in the kitchen is some
horseradish there's some creamy
horseradish I'm at the bottom of the jar
so I'll just go ahead and throw the rest
of this in here but along with the
jalapenos this is just optional you know
if you don't want it to be tangy spicy
at all don't don't throw that stuff in
there I got a little bit of dried minced
onion and a little bit of black pepper
as much as you like now you don't have
to add salt you know like if you look at
the ingredients on this meat you know
like the number two ingredient I think
is salt there's lots of salt in this
stuff and your pickles you know there's
plenty of salt so we're going to take
our black O meat and then we're just
going to massage it and you're going to
love the feel
you're gonna love the feel of that beef
between your fingers it's gonna remind
you of when you were a little kid but I
hope not so now we just want to stir it
all together and get it well
incorporated and that's all there is to
this dish this is just a very easy way
to use canned corned beef and there are
a lot of dips similar to this you can
make one with sardines kind of a fish
dip or if you get a canned ham you can
make a ham dip so this is just a
variation on a very simple dip idea but
the pickles really make this so that's
it a super easy peasy way to use canned
corned beef all right I'll have a link
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