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What is your favorite Irish recipe or food on St Patrick's Day?

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March 17, 2009 04:24 PM
My wife is making corned beef and cabbage as we speak! Throw them into a crock pot, cook all day, enjoy with Guinness... or, better yet, a Black and Tan!


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March 17, 2009 10:08 PM - New Source
Corned beef and cabbage isn't truly Irish as per the wikipedia article (citing the history channel) on corned beef. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef

"The consumption of corned beef is associated with Saint Patrick's Day, when many Irish Americans eat a traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage. According to the History Channel, while cabbage is a traditional food item for Irish-Americans, corned beef is not consumed in Ireland - it was originally used as a substitute for bacon by Irish American immigrants in the late 1800s. (http://www.history.com/minisites/stpatricksday/?page=history7) Irish immigrants living in New York City's Lower East Side sought an equivalent in taste and texture to their traditional Irish bacon, and learned about this cheaper alternative to bacon from their Jewish neighbors."

Made by the Irish, but influenced by the Jewish neighbors. I think it makes the holiday all the more meaningful. It also gives Jews an reason to participate in St. Patrick's day which otherwise might seem unexplainable.

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March 17, 2009 10:41 PM
Whelp... my wife's from Belfast, so I guess only the Northerners eat it...

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March 17, 2009 04:54 PM
SAINT PATTY'S SOUP

4 Tablespoons of butter or margarine
1 Cup of diced raw potatoes
1/2 cup of sliced onions
1 Cup of sliced mushrooms
1 pound of spinach
4 cups of Chicken Stock
1/4 Teaspoon of Ground Cloves
1/2 Cup of Irish oatmeal
Salt and pepper to season
Whipped cream

Melt the butter over a low heat in a skillet or pan. Add diced potatoes, mushrooms and sliced onions and fry until soft.

Wash spinach. Remove stalks and tough stems and chop finely.

Transfer carrots and onions, mushrooms and spinach to a saucepan and add the stock, salt and pepper (to taste), cloves and diced potatoes. Stir in a 1/2 cup of Irish Oatmeal and Simmer for 20 minutes.
Puree in blender or food processor.

Serve into open soup dishes with a teaspoon of whipped cream floating in center.

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