Los Angeles, – Every year St. Patrick’s Day arrives and grocery store shelves are lined with traditional Irish foods to celebrate the occasion – corned beef, cabbage and Guinness. And that’s a good place to start, but don’t stop there. Here are a few more green ideas to help you plan the perfect St. Patty’s Day event.
- Traditional Corned beef – Corned beef brisket cooked with allspice berries, bay leaves, and mustard seeds.
- Stewed Green Cabbage – Cabbage is usually added in to the corned beef braising liquid halfway through the cooking method.
- Shaved red cabbage – Red cabbage can be an accent among all of the green; however, don’t cook it with the meat because the red cabbage will dye the liquid.
- Steamed red potatoes, also known as creamers and new potatoes. They are added to the corned beef as well to cook and absorb the braising liquid from the corned beef.
- Guinness dark lager – Delicious dark beer
- Black and Tan – Tasty beer made by mixing pale ale with Guinness.
- Green beer- a very light beer with green food color added.
- Guinness cupcakes – a vanilla cupcake with Guinness mixed into the cake batter.
- Lamb Stew – a mixture of lamb stew meat, carrots, onion, stock, bouquet garnis and potatoes, braised on a low temperature for many hours.
- A twist on the traditional. Try corned beef quesadillas made with leftover corned beef .
- Shepherds pie. This is an Irish childhood favorite made by combining ground beef and spinach, topped potatoes.
- Irish Stew- Made from mutton or lamb with potatoes, leeks, onions and stock.
- Irish coffee, a mixture of coffee, Irish whiskey, brown sugar and cream.
- Soda Bread – A traditional bread that uses baking soda as the leavening agent rather than yeast.
- Shamrock sugar cookies – A simple sugar cookie cut in the shape of a shamrock with green frosting or green sprinkles.
- Oven-roasted potato skins – Cut the skins off of a russet potato, add salt and cheese and roast them in the oven until they’re soft and delicious.
- Braised Leeks – Leeks can be a tasty side dish to any Irish meal. The leeks are both green and a traditional vegetable.
- Oatmeal Cookies with green M&Ms – Oatmeal is a traditional Irish grain and made into a cookie it’s a great dessert.
- Leek and potato soup. Combine two traditional foods made into a hearty dish.
- Re-baked potatoes with scallion butter – Simple russet potatoes baked in the oven with abutter that was premixed with minced scallions.
- Guinness Braised beef. Use Guinness as the braising liquid.
- Apple and Irish whiskey bread pudding – Use the soda bread, apples and Irish whiskey to create a mouthwatering bread pudding.
- Green Ideas
- Andes Green mints
- Green M&M’s
- Green apple jolly ranchers
- Green truffles
- Green White chocolate cake pops
- Green Tea
- Pistachios
- Sugar cookies with green frosting
- Green Cupcakes with dark green frosting
- Key lime pie
- Green pancakes
- Donuts with green frosting
- Deviled green eggs
- Green whipped cream
- Zucchini Tart
- Spinach Soufflé
- Pesto sauce
- Steamed Green beans
- Asparagus
- Artichokes with a green basil aioli
- Leafy green salads
- Green Apples
- Guacamole
- Sour cream dyed green
- Cream cheese dyed green
- Ranch dressing dyed green
- Yogurt dyed green
- Cottage cheese dyed Green
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
