Cooking: Vegetarian New England Boiled Dinner

Vegetarian New England Boiled Dinner

Every once and a while I get a craving for some beef-related dish that I grew up eating.  My father makes, hands down, the best New England Boiled Dinner I've ever tasted.  He's able to take the cheapest, toughest cuts of beef and somehow make them so tender they fall apart.  I've watched him make this since I was a kid and try as I might I never quite got it right.  I think it's because he has the patience to actually let that beef sit in the pot and just simmer all day.  I've never been that patient.

So the magical mystical ingredients in one of my favorite comfort foods are relatively simple:  beef, onion, carrots, celery, potatoes, and cabbage.  And salt and pepper.  That's it.

I've been having a hankering for my dad's boiled dinner- but