St. Patty's Day Eats: What are you making?
I'd like to hear what you are going to make on/for St. Patty's Day-dinner or dessert or anything. Or are you not going to make anything at all? I was on tastespotting.com and I saw something that I have to make...Guiness Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese icing. Mmmm, I have to have it.
St. Patty's Day was a big deal in my house growing up and my mom always made the traditional food. Since I won't be having any delicious food, I want to live vicariously through you Serious Eaters. :-)
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We're going to a hockey game that day. So I'm only making corned beef and cabbage in the crock pot. And a four pack of Guinness.
joeqboo at 9:30AM on 03/10/09
We're celebrating on Sunday. Corned beef and Brussels sprouts (in place of cabbage) small red potatoes, glazed carrots, roasted beets, Irish Soda Bread. Granddaughter Kate has requested a Pepperidge Farm Coconut cake .. I'll put some green sugar sprinkles on it.
NanaJoie at 10:17AM on 03/10/09
I'm going to combine book club with an Irish meal - one of the women dropped off a huge box of St. Paddy's decorations that I will have to look through! I am going to do a "cottage roll" pickled ham instead of corned beef with Ina's braised Savoy cabbage, new potatoes and carrots, with some Picalilli chow chow, Irish soda bread, and for dessert, an Irish Whiskey cake - it is a cop-out of boxed yellow cake and pudding & tarted up with Irish whiskey and a whiskey glaze - but it is all I will have time for as March 17 is in the middle of Canadian Spring break and I will also be babysitting 3 small grandchildren!
bareneed at 10:27AM on 03/10/09
I highly recommend Guinness chocolate cupcakes with Jameson ganache and Bailey's frosting! :)
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Chew on That at 1:23PM on 03/10/09
Im having my gang over Sunday, it's as big as Thanksgiving here. I'm making 15lb. of corned beef along with potatoes, cabbage, carrots and parsnips. Irish soda bread with golden raisins and caraway, fresh cream puffs for dessert and I always cook my corned beef in Ginger ale and make a sauce for the meat with some of the cooing liquid and add horseradish at the end (sugar, flour, dry mustard, cider vinegar, cooking liquid, horseradish & butter) I can't wait!!!!
WSLunch at 1:49PM on 03/10/09
Not a big fan of making stuff for St Patty's day myself, and I have to say, there's something about soda bread that irks me. I think it may be the raisons.
My tradition: Beer.
Juman23 at 2:11PM on 03/10/09
For the first time, corning my own beef using Julia Childs' recipe (sounds like a contradiction in terms, I admit). And colcannon. Maybe a Guiness chocolate cake recipe I found a few years back.
Ciaohound48 at 3:00PM on 03/10/09
I'm making corned beef in my Crockpot, cabbage and potatoes (but not in the Crockpot. I don't do beef and I want my own un-adulterated vegetables). I'm also making real Irish soda bread, which does not contain raisins, seeds, nuts, candies, sprinkles, zest or any other accoutrements. (See this website for more info: www.sodabread.info)
For dessert: Irish cream creme brulee. And, of course, gotta have some Guinness.
Can't wait! Slainte!
PestoGal at 3:01PM on 03/10/09
Beer and soda bread. Since Patty's is pretty much an American holiday anyways, I'm down with the yummy raisin soda bread.
Embackus at 3:05PM on 03/10/09
Ohhh, I would love to have some soda bread...Mmmm. So good. Definitely something I am going to miss.
@WSLunch: I want an invite!!
I've never had Guinness Chocolate Cake/Cupcakes. But the pic looked so good, I have to make it. Can you taste the beer in the cake? That kinda weirds me out if you can. Since I really don't care for Guinness unless it's a Car Bomb.
Butrflygirly at 3:20PM on 03/10/09
Fish and chips in Guinness batter! I use St. Pat's Day as an excuse to indulge my fried-food guilty pleasure once a year.
Lorenzo at 3:37PM on 03/10/09
How can you think of having a stomach sturdy enough to eat anything the day after a Saint Urho's Day Party? Get the Mojaaka going for the March 16th Celebration!
Meat guy at 3:58PM on 03/10/09
We always do reubens with homemade corned beef simmered in beer in the crock pot. I recently saw a suggestion for simmering the corned beef in ginger ale, so I may do that this year.
soozm32 at 4:19PM on 03/10/09
Corned beef and cabbage, simple, really delicious and homey. With loads of beer.
Pointy at 4:24PM on 03/10/09
I don't think I've ever made anything beyond soda bread for St. Patrick's Day, and I'm not entirely sure that I've ever actually had corned beef.
Of course, that didn't stop me from buying 6 pounds of brisket, corning it myself, and inviting people over on Sunday. Beyond that, I have no idea what I'm making, but I should probably figure it out sooner than later...
cyberroo at 4:42PM on 03/10/09
The Guiness Cake/cupcakes are great I made a bunch a couple weeks ago and made the chocolate ganache for the frosting, I let it cool a bit and dunked the top of the cupcake in and let it set up. The 40 people I made them for liked them a lot.
WSLunch at 6:03PM on 03/10/09
@Butrflygirly - hi sister! I actually made my first corned beef, cabbage & potatoes dinner of the season on Sunday - OH refused to wait any longer:-). I'm going to make soda bread later this week, too, sans raisins of course; and will certainly repeat the corned beef, cabbage & potatoes dinner (it was hugely successful).
brooke29 at 6:26PM on 03/10/09
beer bread for sure!
megannesta at 7:08PM on 03/10/09
corned beef, cabbage, red potatoes, soda bread, and a green mint pie.
it's my favorite meal of the year after new year's day...
smithwick's & jameson to accompany, of course.
gastronomeg at 1:11AM on 03/11/09
I am going to make lamb stew and maybe some colcannen
pjracz10 at 6:16AM on 03/11/09
@Brooke: Hi Sister!! Hope things are well. :-) I want an invite to your place too! All this reading about Soda Bread makes me want it, now. No raisins in Soda Bread though.
@WS-Thanks for letting me know. I have never had it and I don't know of anyone that has either. I'm so making that this weekend. Won't have time before that.
@soozm: Love reubens...Sounds like you have something good goin on there. Maybe I could have my mom save some meat for me so I can make a sandwich.
Butrflygirly at 8:27AM on 03/11/09
@Butrflygirly - you're always invited for dinner!:-)
brooke29 at 6:01PM on 03/11/09
Beef Guiness and colcannon. (not that I need an excuse to make my favorite comfort food, but I'll take it anyway)
maybe I'll ask my husband to make some soda bread.
AliceBlue at 7:58PM on 03/11/09
@Brooke: Good. I'm coming then. Or at least I wish I was. Enjoy your food and think of me as I sit and slave away in my Managerial Economics class. :-( I'd much rather be enjoying good eats like you and everyone else.
Butrflygirly at 9:19AM on 03/12/09
@Embackus: Uhhh...St. Patty's Day is an American holiday? Have you ever been to Ireland on St. Patty's Day? It's also a BIT of an Irish holiday.
njgood at 10:18AM on 03/12/09
Shepherd's Pie, I found out a few years ago that Corned Beef really isn't served in Ireland for St. Pat's Day. I have this weird thing with serving true traditional food. It makes me feel connected to past generations and part of my heritage. Although I did buy I nice corned beef brisket for later in the week to make reubens with since they are on special lately and well let's face it reubens are yummy!
Martini Me at 10:04AM on 03/13/09
@Chew: Sounds like you are reccommending a Car Bomb! :-)
Butrflygirly at 12:48PM on 03/13/09
Potato Fritatta with Kerry Gold cheese.
savorthethyme at 9:10PM on 03/14/09
We put the corned beef in a cooking bag, add some Guiness beer, baby carrots and red potatoes and let it cook.
It is awesome if I do say so myself!
floridayaya at 11:23AM on 03/15/09
I can't stand corned beef and BF hates cabbage, so I guess we'll just have beer.
Amandarama at 2:04PM on 03/16/09
I live in a town called Dublin, so they do up the Irish thing big. We did the annual St. Patrick's Day race and parade this weekend followed by having everyone over for shepherd's pie along with Guinness, Smithwick's, and a local brewery's Irish ale. Tonight we're having corned beef, colcannon, and roasted carrots. Tomorrow I have class all night after work (boo!), but at least I'll have a reuben made with the leftovers!
@njgood, St. Patrick's Day until somewhat recently was a religious holiday in Ireland, and it WAS the Americans who made it the big drunkfest it is. But I have been there for St. Patrick's Day and it is now just as crazy as it is here!
Charise at 2:49PM on 03/16/09
Been corning my own brisket since last Tuesday, I love Cooks Illustrated's recipe. Looking forward to that with horseradish cream, new potatoes, carrots, and cabbage, all smothered in malt vinegar.
I made an oatmeal walnut soda bread today, but may make the "American" style with caraway and raisins tomorrow.
No more green beer parties for me, the holiday is now about the tasty food, though I do miss getting stupid drunk with hundreds of other people sometimes. Happy St. Patrick's day all!
bobcatsteph3 at 7:34PM on 03/16/09
made a crazy delicious vegetarian colcannon tonight. took two recipes and made a mashup which innvolved parsnips, carrots, cabbage, and potatoes - oh, and crazy amounts of butter. mmmmm butter. it's probably the least authentic colcannon in the world, but damn it's tasty.
Ariel777 at 8:56PM on 03/16/09
wowie, butter hangover. i totally misspelled "involved" in my last post. forgive?
Ariel777 at 8:57PM on 03/16/09