Jiggs Dinner Maritime

Jiggs dinner is the Maritime Sunday classic, named after a comic-strip character whose wife fed him boiled beef and cabbage — a joke that stuck so hard the whole dish took the name. Its roots go deeper: salt beef simmered with whatever the garden and root cellar provided, the original one-pot meal.

Everything cooks in one pot, so the cabbage turns buttery and the potatoes soak up the beef’s rich, salty broth. Serve it with mustard on the side and a cup of the pot liquor poured over top — that is how generations of Maritimers have eaten it, and they are not wrong.

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