It’s corned beef and cabbage time

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Sarah DiGregorio’s corned beef with cabbage. Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: LIza Jernow.

If you make one thing this weekend

One of the very first project cooks I remember trying when I moved into my own apartment is corned beef and cabbage. The recipe I used called for brining the beef brisket in the fridge before cooking it. In the process of taking the behemoth pot out of my fridge, I fumbled and sloshed almost all of the aromatic liquid onto my tiny galley kitchen floor.

Point is, even the memory of that mishap isn’t enough to dull the charms of this satisfying meal, this salty-sour mix of meat, potatoes, carrots and cabbage to swipe through jarred horseradish and mustard. (I don’t want to choose between them, and you don’t have to, either.) Sarah DiGregorio’s recipe is a perfect weekend-before-St. Patrick’s Day cook, a Sunday dinner that yields gorgeous leftovers for corned beef hash, Reuben sandwiches and Sam Sifton’s Irish tacos. Just perhaps be more careful than I was when moving your precious pot of corned beef.

(And if you’d like more St. Patrick’s Day cooking ideas, we have 17 recipes that will make you feel extra lucky.)

View this recipe: Corned beef and cabbage

Most clicked

As someone who spent a good portion of her Bay Area childhood mesmerized by the El Machino flour-tortilla maker at Chevy’s, I’m delighted to see that these chicken fajitas from Ali Slagle were a big hit this week. That’s probably because 1) Emily Weinstein wrote about them in her Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter; 2) they’re a star of our chicken breast recipe collection; and 3) chicken fajitas are delicious.

More of our most-clicked recipes this week: traditional Irish soda bread; chicken schnitzel with cucumber salad; nonalcoholic Negronis.

Chicken Fajitas

By Ali Slagle

4,069

40 minutes

Makes 4 servings

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

Recipe from Darina Allen

Adapted by Melissa Clark

2,940

About 1 hour

Makes 1 loaf, 8 to 12 servings

Chicken Schnitzel With Cucumber Salad

By Sue Li

77

35 minutes

Makes 4 servings

Nonalcoholic Negroni

By Dan Pelosi

603

2 1/4 hours

Makes 6 to 8 drinks

New and noteworthy

Ceci Bean Soup With Red Pepper Pesto

By David Tanis

10

1 hour 45 minutes, plus overnight soak

Makes 8 to 10 servings

Braised Chicken With Rosemary and Crispy Artichokes

By David Tanis

8

2 hours 10 minutes

Makes 6 servings

Blood Orange Gelato

By David Tanis

18

30 minutes, plus overnight chilling

Makes 4 to 6 servings

David Tanis has a beautiful new dinner menu that deftly combines late-winter goodies (citrus; a soothing chickpea soup) with springtime treats (baby artichokes!). Because the only thing missing from this lovely party is the perfect beverage, I asked Eric Asimov, our wine columnist, which wine he would pair with this meal. “While there’s never only one right wine to serve,” he said, “I would reach for a good dry chenin blanc, whether from the Loire Valley, the West Coast or South Africa.” Enjoy!

You said it

Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini.

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