Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
We didn't have corned beef or cabbage last night either. Some of my son's friends came over so I made tacos for supper...we've had them twice this week now!
Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
It seems like corned beef and cabbage isn't even a common dish in Ireland. They say it's "too poor" of a dish to serve on such a festive holiday. You will find very little corned beef in Ireland's grocery stores, but you will find lots of bacon and salt pork which is used used in dishes like stews.
Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
"The day is more than likely going to start out with an “Irish Breakfast” this comprising of fresh eggs normally fried along with 2 sausage, 2 bacon, grilled tomatoes, black pudding, white pudding, mushrooms and Irish brown bread. Black pudding is really a blood sausage which is a staple across the European continent.
Not what you imagine- no corned beef and no cabbage, Saint Patrick’s Day evening meal is generally a join of lamb roasted in the oven with rosemary and garlic. Served with creamed potatoes, roasted vegetable (that includes potatoes, carrots and parsnips) with peas and broccoli. The dessert is normal hot apple tart served with custard and cream.
Later that evening, if you still have room, it will be Irish brown bread with cream cheese and Irish Smoked Salmon."
So there you have it. Although lamb might not be the choice on everyone's dinner table that night, a nice cut of meat is likely to show up at any celebration meal in Ireland.
The corned beef you find in Ireland is mostly for tourists that expect to find Irish people eating that.
Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
So fun to read what everyone wrote a year ago. I see Hawkins was around back then too.
Anyways, pretty much the same this year as I wrote last year. We are making a bunch of corn beef and cabbage since we love corn beef and even though it's not a 'real' Irish Meal it's a tradition with us.
Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
We haven't really planned anything special for St. Patty's since neither of us is Irish. Just not that big of a deal at our house. Maybe I'll wear my green underwear that day.
Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
I don't care for cabbage other than the little shreds in my salad mix. Cooked cabbage just sounds nasty to me. I've heard horror stories about my husband having to eat cooked cream cabbage as a kid. Him and his siblings still claim that's the worst meal they got. It was served with salt pork which my husband says is super salty and it made his gut hurt. I'm sure it was from the cabbage. Yuck!
Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
I wonder if anyone will be serving up some shepherd's pie for St. Pat's. They serve quite a bit of that at Mo's Irish Pub. My favorite there is a boxty, which is a potato pancake that is filled with different meats, bbq sauce and corn then topped with cheese.
Re: Wisconsin: How Are You Celebrating St. Patrick's Day?
Shepherd's pie does sound good.. I actually have a corned beef roast in the fridge but had corned beef prior to getting sick so.. maybe I'll opt for something else. Most likely won't do any actual "celebrating" tho. When I lived in western NY, I used to go to an Irish sport bar for St. Paddy's. I'm Scottish, Irish, Welsh, English, and French so I qualify for just about anything.
As far as boiled cabbage goes, it will definitely make you gassy but I love it with boiled carrots and potatoes.. we used to call that "boiled stuff" and it's great with lots of butter and pepper!
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