Entries tagged with 'St. Patrick's Day'
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There's nothing like green pasta to brighten up a meal. Nancy, of Dishing Up, offers a spinach-basil pesto pasta in honor of St. Patrick's Day. OK, so it might not taste very Irish, but that doesn't mean it won't taste good. Plus, substituting spinach for some of the basil is an easy fix when you don't have enough basil on hand....
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When Serious Eaters gathered around to examine the See's Candies catalog last week, one thing popped out:
a St. Patrick's Day Potato.
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If you really, really need help making green beer (hint: It involves green food coloring), here's a video for you. You can use blue curaçao to put a twist on your St. Patty's Day beer, but don't think you're avoiding the dyes that way. The liqueur is artificially colored—nothing drinkable in nature is that blue. The video appears after the jump. Cheers!...
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At times like this, I hope our frat boy readership is really strong. Apparently there is more to green beer than just food coloring and beer. Oh wait, there's not at all. But this step-by-step guide says six drops of dye, when dealing with a vaguely yellow beer, is the magic number. Otherwise you get a more olive tone. Complicated stuff! [via UniqueDaily.com] Related What are your favorite St. Paddy's Day eats? [Talk] My McDonald's Shamrock Shake Journey: An Emotional Roller Coaster Time for a Drink: Green Devil...
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Jesse Oleson of Cakespy made six different variations of Irish soda bread in her attempt to find the most delicious combination of additions: raisins, green dye, raisins, green frosting, melty mints, and green jelly beans. The winner? All of the above. (As for what the green food coloring does, it makes it cuter. Don't deny the power of cute!) Previously: Irish soda bread recipes Move Over, Rice Krispies: Cereal Treats Smackdown...
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Are you sick of celebrating St. Patrick's Day by coloring all your food in various shades of green? Check out Gourmet's collection of nontraditional St. Patrick's Day recipes accompanied by beautiful photographs of each dish. For traditional dishes, look through European Cuisine's archive of St. Patrick's Day recipes. [via Rebecca Blood]...
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Deb of Smitten Kitchen on blasphemous bread, after Melissa Clark's recent inauthentic Irish soda bread recipe in the NYT: I’ve never made Irish soda bread before and eaten it almost as rarely, so I can’t offer a review with any authority, but what I loved about this article is neither could Clark. She was told by a friend married to an Irishman and living in his country that though her version was rich and lovely, it neither looked nor tasted like the real deal. Apparently, nobody in Ireland serves real soda bread anymore, she said, and even if they did, it would have no raisins, eggs, butter or caraway seeds. After trying a version faithful to the original and finding...
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Live somewhere with a large population of Irish descent? Chances are pretty good someone you know (or at least the bars around you) will be observing St Patrick's Day this coming weekend. If baking for holidays is your thing, you might want to try Nigella Lawson's recipe for Chocolate Guinness Cake (from her cookbook Feast), as every single blog post I've ever seen about it has raved on about how delicious it is and how it's quite possibly the best chocolate cake ever. If Nigella's frosting of cream cheese, sugar and cream sounds too sweet for you, Maki Itoh makes an Irish Stout Cake with Whiskey-Sour Icing, having reworked a Gary Rhodes recipe and added the icing. I can't...
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Adora read about Blogjam's Pepto-Bismol ice cream and "knew it was the kind of thing that would be appreciated by all of my friends. Our parties are usually potluck-style events, so with St. Patrick’s Day approaching I’ve got the perfect venue to present something new. Pink isn’t very St. Patrick-y, though…I need to do something green. Mint chocolate chip is green, but what else could go in it that wouldn’t spoil the color or flavor? My friend Billy came up with the idea to use Mylanta, another tummy-taming crowd pleaser. White liquid with just a hint of mint aftertaste…yeah, I might be able to make this work." If you're throwing a St Patrick's Day party and you own an...
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