St. Patrick's Day Food

(I've realized - and gotten a full time job - that I haven't posted on here in a bit ... so here are a few 'over due' posts.)

Everyone's Irish on March 17th!

So it's tradition in a large portion of the US to cook corned beef with cabbage (and potatoes and carrots) for St. Patrick's Day ... is this the same in Ireland?  I highly doubt it - though I do not have fact or fiction statistics to make a definite statement.

I've cooked it a few times.  Funny, the beef comes with a packet of seasonings along with the packaged statement that it's already seasoned ... so it's not really all that difficult.  Put meat in pot, cover with water, add seasoning packet, cook for roughly 4 hours.  About an hour and a half before it's done add the chopped potatoes and carrots, and at about half hour'ish you add the cabbage.

Remove from water.  Cut meat.  Serve and eat (with mayo for the potatoes and mustard for the meat).

One day I'd like to try seasoning it all the way myself ... and adding in some Irish Soda Bread (another "American" St. Patty's Day staple).

Cooking the meal got me thinking though, that it's likely we've taken what would have been cooked in the super lean years ... and in much MUCH smaller portions back then.  Hot water with a bit of meat to flavor it, add some potatoes and veg and then eat.  Then use the flavored water for a soup.  But I digress...

It might not be their tradition, but it's one over here that I love!

Hope everyone had a Happy ... and a Guinness!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

~Father and Daughter Bowing Down (2009)