You could add cabbage to the mashed potatoes to make them Colcannon or green onions to make them Champ and either Boxty or oatcakes would be good finger food. We always go out to a local pub for breakfast on St. Paddy's day, they serve a traditional Irish breakfast. Can't wait, bangers, rashers, black and white pudding making me hungry now. I always make a Coddle for dinner that day, a recipe of my grandmothers but the stout stew sure sounds good too.
Good ideas, thanks...
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How bout some green food coloring mixed with the priming sugar/water for your next batch of bottles? I might try this and have a batch ready for a st pattys party. Maybe some blue and green drops to change the color of the yellowish wort.
How about shepherd's pie? Always good, though with the stout stew maybe too much? Could always go for the sheep's bladder stuffed with sweet meats and blood... Very authentic, but I don't think you'd really enjoy it.
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I have a book called "The Festive Food of Ireland" by Darina Allen (an Irish chef). I got it in Ireland back in the 90s. It has all of the Irish holidays and their associated foods. For St. Patrick's Day it has Corned Beef & Cabbage and Porter Cake. It states the CB&C was originally an Easter Sunday dinner because the beef killed before winter would have been salted and eaten after Lent with cabbage and potatoes. But it's now associated more with St. Patty's Day. The Porter cake is supposed to be delicious. It's made with Guinness and it's supposed to be so good it's exported in tins to Irish emigrants in the US. You could also try fadge (potatoe bread, but it's not like you'd think of a bread since it's made on a griddle), but that's more of a breakfast thing.
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