St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Menu
I love being Irish “by association.” It gives me the opportunity to try new recipes and have fun with the family.
Tonight we have corn beef and cabbage on the menu. Since the kids like sausage, I’m also making a very easy Dubblin Coddle. I just steam potatoes, sausage, onion, bacon, and carrots in my steamer. for 30 minutes. (I used turkey sausage and turkey bacon for a healthier dish.) I’ll throw in a side salad for some greens and some Irish Soda Bread. For dessert I found this recipe for Bailey’s Chocolate Mousse Pie. I’m just doing the mousse part and leaving out the crust.
To drink: I surprised my beloved Irishman with Guinness on Saturday.
We’ll say the Breastplate of St. Patrick before dinner and kick up our heals with some Irish jigs afterward.
Grandma Lucille Lanie Gretencord and Grandma Mary Annette Cain Datzman (from County Cork) would be so happy to read this! Being truly 1/2 Irish and 1/2 German, I feel like I’m always at war with myself!
Wow! Sharon you sure know how to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The supper sounds so delicious. Adam’s great great grandmother on my mothers side came over on the boat from Ireland and she married a man whose last name was Wiest. I forget his first name. I believe they had 7 or 8 children and they both were farmers here in Benton County. On Adam’s mothers side well his grandmothers last name is Cain, what can I say. So I’m German-Irish, and Marcia is also German-Irish, but we don’t fight alot, but I get thirsty sometimes. If St. Patrick were alive today I’m sure people would be begging him to drive the snakes out of Washington D.C. Amen to that.