What Is Most Essential For St. Patrick's Day Dinner Tomorrow?

[KittyWampus]

Poll question: What Is Most Essential For St. Patrick's Day Dinner Tomorrow?

What is the Prime Ingredient for a St. Patrick's Day Meal.

Recipes would be great!

I'm having a real casual dinner with a very few close friends.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Green Beer?

[KittyWampus]

2. Wow! It's Glowing!

Not sure you could notice green food coloring in Guiness though. :)

:toast:

[AntiCoup2K4]

25. Exactly. The Hell with the green food coloring!

or anti-freeze, in the above picture.



Give me the real Irish stuff..... :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Gotta go with the Green beer guy !

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[eleonora]

3. Well, let's see

Irish stew.

When I lived in New Orleans the St Patrick floats threw us cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions and cucumbers...Irish stew!

[markus]

13. And how many paper flowers did you get, eleanora? n/t

[eleonora]

17. heehee

...an "undisclosed" amount.

[mitchtv]

4. giving up the corned beef this year

canned ham, baked beans, boiled potatoes(yukon rose)with fresh chives and sour cream,,cole slaw. for 6.

[KittyWampus]

7. Cole Slaw! Great Idea.

Beats Boiled Cabbage.

Now what to have for dessert????

[Badger1]

6. Guiness,Guiness and corned beef & cabbage

Then a wee bit of the Jamisons.

[KittyWampus]

9. THANKS! Added The Whiskey

How could I let that slip my mind?

[Clovis Sangrail]

10. Put the Jamesons IN the Guiness

1 shot per pint
Try it, it's really good.

[Badger1]

8. I foregot

Chieftons, Makem & Clancy, Saw Doctors and Planxty!

[Blueshift]

11. Bailey's Irish Creme!

[regnaD kciN]

22. Same here!

As a non-beer-drinker, I couldn't possibly enjoy an "Irish 7-course meal" (a boiled potato and a six-pack), so Bailey's it is!

[markus]

12. Ya gotta have the Colcannon

That is the food of the goods.

In fact, you could server that and nothing else (except Guinnes, Smithwick and Jameson 12 Year old).

[KittyWampus]

14. I Can't Be Affording The Jameson This Year

Maybe someone will bring some...

:toast:

[The Whiskey Priest]

15. An Irish Prattie

a bit of salt and if ye be the gentry a bit of Irish bacon.

[KittyWampus]

16. Irish Bacon GOOD. American Bacon Vile.

MMMMMMMM. Potatoes and Bacon. Yummy!

[Faygo Kid]

18. What, no "Other!?!" Good company, and Maureen O'Hara's smile.

'Tis ashamed of yourself, you should be. The fine beer and food are a given, but the love of good friends and the company of a comely woman should never be taken for granted. Erin go Bragh!

[KittyWampus]

24. Oh My, Good Friends Are Always The Prime Ingredient

can't argue with that... they make the work cooking the meal worthwhile.

:)

[SiobhanClancy]

19. Here's a dessert from my cousin Kate in Clonakilty....

Apple Oatmeal Crumble with Whiskey Sauce

• 6 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
• 1 cup (2 sticks) plus 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons McCann's Quick Cooking Irish Oatmeal(or other oatmeal)
• 1/2 teaspoons ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Irish Whiskey Cream Sauce
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 2 tablespoon Irish Whiskey




Directions:


Preheat oven to 375°F. Butter an 8-inch square baking pan and arrange the apples slice on the bottom.

Combine 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, and flour and work these ingredients into a mixture that resembles coarse crumbs. Add the oatmeal and mix again. In a separate bowl, mix together the remaining sugar, butter, ginger, and cinnamon, and add to the oatmeal mixture. Spread evenly over the apples and bake for 40 minutes.

In a small bowl, whip the cream until stiff. Fold in the honey and whiskey. To serve, divide apple crumble onto plates and spoon cream over the top. Makes 4 servings.

Variation: To make an apple blackberry crumble, add 1 cup of blackberries to the apples.(It's really grand with the blackberries if you can get them:)

[KittyWampus]

20. Gee, That Sounds Delicious & Pretty Easy!

Think I'll do it but use raisins instead of the blackberry.

Thanks to you and your sister.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Besides the Guinness (Or Murphy's if ye prefer)

I go for Colcannon. I'm not Irish; but I like to use the day to remember those who died during the potato famine and those who came to this country as a result. :beer:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

23. In my house it's definitely boilin' bacon, cabbage, turnip, and carrots.

Boilin' bacon courtesy of Winston's in Tinley Park, IL and it's not corned beef, it's real boilin' bacon.

As well going to watch the All-Ireland club hurling and football finals live from Croke Park very early in the morning at the Goalpost in Oak Lawn, IL; coming home and listening to tapes and cd's of the Chieftains, the Wolfe Tones, the Saw Doctors, Planxty, et al and then going out in the afternoon for the craic and meeting up with our friends from the best Gaelic Senior Football club in North America, the Chicago Wolfe Tones.

BTW, the football club is not named for the musical group, but for Theobald Wolfe Tone, who was a Protestant and integrally involved in the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

[peacefreak]

26. BEANO

:evilgrin:

[KittyWampus]

27. Not A Bad Idea! Got The Pot On Simmering

And the smell is starting to permeate the house.