St. Patty's Day menu

[ClockworkOrange]

Just wondering what everyone will be eating/drinking this St. Patrick's Day. I'll be making corned beef with savoy cabbage and a dill mustard sauce, parsely potatoes and possibly some soda bread with golden raisins. I'll probably make a batch of colcannon with smoked ham also to have around and I'm not even Irish. Don't know what I'll be washing it down with yet though.

[zoom6zoom]

Probably an Irish seven course meal.

Sixer and a baked potato.

[DecoJuicer]

I'll most likely be eating fastfood. I will be down in lovely Ahsland, Ohio for a coon hunt. The hunt is thursday night and the bench show is friday afternoon. I have to work friday night, so I probably won't even get a chance to go out and get some corned beef and a beer. Maybe I'll get to have a shamrock shake.

[chazwicke]

Not sure what I'll be eating or drinking. But I 'll be wearing Orange! I'm of English Protestant decent.;)

[MikShau]

Not sure what I'll be eating or drinking. But I 'll be wearing Orange! I'm of English Protestant decent.

Then it must be tough to choke down those "Irish" stouts?


Personally, It will be Guiness and something that has been boiled for at least an hour, followed by more Guiness.

corned beef N cabbage,
shepards pie.
soda bread

Ireland also consumes a lot of oysters. Nothing can be more cruel than being around a drunk, full of gas producing food, that's horney.

[chazwicke]

Me like oysters!

I'm sure it will be corned beef cooked all day in the crock pot with cabbage and some sort of Oirish brew. My wife is half German and half Irish.

And she's not shanty Irish either.

[ClockworkOrange]

Oysters would hit the spot right about now. Mmmmm oysters.

[studentofbeer]

ever since i left chicago i haven't done anything st. patty's day related. it's just that kind of city.

but i do have a huge paper due friday, so upon getting it all done i'm considering going out with the fiancee to a favorite restaurant and having a good dinner (with plenty of oysters), tho nothing irish about it. Unfortunately it's not much of a beer place, tho they do have guinness extra stout which is always nice to pair with the oysters, tho that then makes it harder to get a bottle of wine with just the two of us.

btw zoom, i liked your joke!

[Goban]

I’ll be out of town on St. Paddy’s to celebrate the equinox with my brother in-laws wedding. So, I don’t know what’s going to be on the menu. But I will certainly have a few pints ‘o the beoir!!

And Chaz EVERYBODY is Irish on St. Paddy’s day! Don’t you know? :)

Sláinte is táinte everyone!

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by Goban
And Chaz EVERYBODY is Irish on St. Paddy’s day! Don’t you know?

Sláinte is táinte everyone!

;)

the wearin'o the orange

[brewcrew76]

Originally posted by zoom6zoom
Probably an Irish seven course meal.

Sixer and a baked potato.

Ha!:D

[brewcrew76]

Originally posted by studentofbeer
ever since i left chicago i haven't done anything st. patty's day related. it's just that kind of city.



That is definitely true. They celebrate St. Patty's Day here 3 times each year. This year it was 12th (downtown parade), 13th (southside parade) & 17th (every bar in the city).

[hops99]

There's an Irish bar about half an hour away from me that "celebrates" St. Patrick's Day on the 17th of every month. They make a killer Shepherd's Pie, but the beer lineup sucks.

[sharkstewbrewer]

butcher shop nearby makes their own corned beef so it's that, cabbage, turnips, etc
and our own stout and esb

one excuse for a beah is as good as another, right?

[mookow]

Originally posted by hops99
There's an Irish bar about half an hour away from me that "celebrates" St. Patrick's Day on the 17th of every month. They make a killer Shepherd's Pie, but the beer lineup sucks.

There is an Irish pub near me with some pretty good food and a nice draft beer selection (Arrogant Bastard, Smithwicks, a couple others) but they've managed to price themselves out of my range.

[DecoJuicer]

There was a guy on the local news yesterday morning that was showcasing some Irish dishes for St. Patricks Day. He also taught the host how to "pour a perfect Irish beer."

He poured the host a Killians Red from the bottle. He tilted the glass on a 45 degree angle and poured the beer in until the bottle was empty. He got about 1/4 inch of head, and kept going on about how that perfect it was. The brain dead host just smiled and kept saying how great it looked. The guys at work didn't understand why I was so upset.

The food did look good, but it wasn't your typical Irish-put everything in a pot and boil for 6 hours- meal.


At least Budweiser has started their "pour down the middle" campaign.

[zoom6zoom]

The Archbishops of Washington and Baltimore have declared a special dispensation for St. Patricks day this year, since it falls upon a Friday in Lent, so good Catholics can eat their corned beef and don't have to stick with fish.

[ClockworkOrange]

Same thing goes for all the diocese in PA with the exception of Harrisburg.

[Seymour]

I made colchannon, which I pulled from one of my wife's Irish cookbooks, though I've seen a very similar recipe in a German cookbook. Basically just Polish sausage, chopped cabbage and potatoes, thrown in a large pan, sprinkled liberally with garlic and black pepper, with a pale ale poured over the lot for liquid, then boiled 'til the veggies are tender. 'Twas delicious, and we enjoyed it while watching The Quiet Man for the ten millionth time.

[wortchillergoal]

I believe that corned beef is more an American thing than an Irish one.

My St. Patrick's Day event was playing hockey at 10pm. About 11:45, we went out out inot the parking lot. The temp was about 10 degrees. We fired up a potable fire place and a gas grill. We had Coneys and Red Hots which I washed down with Harpoon's Hibernian Ale. One of my teamates said it was the first amber he ever liked.

[noby]

Originally posted by Seymour
I made colchannon, which I pulled from one of my wife's Irish cookbooks, though I've seen a very similar recipe in a German cookbook. Basically just Polish sausage, chopped cabbage and potatoes, thrown in a large pan, sprinkled liberally with garlic and black pepper, with a pale ale poured over the lot for liquid, then boiled 'til the veggies are tender. 'Twas delicious, and we enjoyed it while watching The Quiet Man for the ten millionth time.

Seymour, that sounds more like coddle than colcannon. Colcannon is usually just mashed spuds with cabbage (kale) and milk mashed togather.
Coddle has sausages etc. with cabbage and spuds all boiled to within an inch of their life, so you get a kind of a broth.

My personal favourite is champ: mashed spuds with scallions, butter, milk, and salt and pepper.

[Seymour]

I'm sure you're right. Sorry about the name mix-up. Sure did taste good, though!

[chazwicke]

I had Hard Times Chili - Texas 5 way and cask conditioned Tupper's Hop Pocket via the new beer engine at the Herndon HT location. Not even a Guinness.:eek:

I may have one tonight to make up for it.

[Erin W]

Honestly, for me, it went like this:

It's Friday and The usual lunch special at work on said day during lent is the fish platter. Lots of obediant lent-followers over this great nation of ours, so I'm hip.

HOWEVER, (and I pride myself on trying to be in the know and well-informed) I had learned of the local dispensation and what it meant to me during those crucial lunch hours.

Now this involved a brief rundown of Catholicism, and a mnemonic device associated with a PeZ dispenser, and a I think a guy who may or may not don an adorned head covering.

My boss' explicit directions: Sell the Corned Beef.
" " implicit " : Tell them it's guilt-free

Meanwhile, four people who spoke very, very good Spanish came in (and incidently, very, very poor English), met me, who well, reverse that.

Befuddling past the drink order, they, one-by-one ordered "pesca", "pesca" ,
No eye contact, just years of tradition. Everybody just gets fish.

A quick assessment told me worlds are going to collide.

I get the order to the kitchen, and my boss isn't doing cartwheels cause in her mind we've already had this conversation...this Fish is not the special today....remember? hats? pez?

I'm just shaking my head laughing, and I step back to let her get a grasp of the situation...

I said, "Look I'm sorry but I don't Know the Spanish word for dispensation."

They ate fish, I had the corned-beef and cabbage ( drowned in vinegar)---the rest--a grateful green blur!