Boiled Bacon and Cabbage

This is an old time Irish dish, and a good one.
If you follow my recipe blog you know that
I like to find new ways to prepare old foods.
Try this recipe for an old taste of Ireland.
What could be better than bacon and cabbage?

Ingredients:
1 pound smoked bacon
1 onion, peeled and sliced
1 carrot, peeled and sliced
1 turnip, peeled and sliced
1 leek, cleaned and sliced
2 bay leaves
flat leaf parsley

Directions:
Place the bacon in a soup pot and cover with cold water.
Soak overnight to remove some of the saltiness.
Remove bacon from pot and put in a pan with
onion, turnip, carrots, leek and bayleafs,
then cover vegetebales with cold water.
Bring it slowly to a boil and then lower heat
and simmer it for about 6 hours.
Cut the meat up in chunks with the vegetables on a platter.
Garnish with chopped parsley and ladled over some of the broth.
Remove bay leaves before serving.