Created by immigrants as a way to enjoy food from home at the lowest cost available, corned beef and cabbage has become a staple meal every St Patrick's Day

If you're looking to make a homemade corned beef and cabbage dinner for Saint Patrick's Day, here's how much it might cost you.

After setting the meat-and-brine bag in the fridge, the hard part is over. “Corned beef is really a set-it-and-forget-it project,” Rodriguez says. And forget it I did — aside from turning the bag over every other day to ensure it was curing evenly.