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St. Patrick’s Day Celebration: the Pictures

Sorry it has taken me until now to post the end result pictures from yesterday.  We didn’t eat until late.  Everything turned out really well though.  There’s a ton of corned beef left so we will have enough to freeze (to enjoy another time later) and to make a sandwich or two!  I also plan to make some corned beef hash at some point next week.  So, all in all, we will get a good number of meals out of this holiday meal.  Hope you had as nice a day and meal too!

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To start, we dove right into this Irish pub salad. I used the basic recipe outlined in my previous post but added pickled onions, soft boiled eggs instead of hard boiled, and used a homemade mayonnaise for part of the dressing. I used an aged Irish Stout cheese as well.

To start, we dove right into this Irish pub salad. I used the basic recipe outlined in my previous post but added pickled onions, soft boiled eggs instead of hard boiled, and used a homemade mayonnaise for part of the dressing. I used an aged Irish Stout cheese as well.

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St. Patrick’s Day Festivities Part Two: The Menu

First, let me apologize for not having pictures yet for this particular post, but like a lot of you, I haven’t actually cooked our meal for St. Patrick’s Day yet.  I’ll post pictures tomorrow so you can see the end result.  As you may remember, I posted a recipe for homemade corned beef a while back and said that I had started the process of corning the beef about ten days ago.  Tomorrow, the corned beef will be cooked in a traditional Irish boil complete with red potatoes and green cabbage.

To go along with the corned beef boil, I plan to serve a traditional Irish pub salad.  I made this salad last year and it was really great.  Here is the link to the recipe I used last year and also plan to use again this year.

In addition to the salad and Irish meal, I plan to make an Irish soda bread to go alongside our mint cacao ice cream.  Again, I used this recipe last year and whole-heartedly recommend it this year.  I plan to make this again as well.

There will probably be an Irish beer or two consumed as well.  As I said, I apologize for not having pictures…I’ll rectify that situation tomorrow.  Until then, take a look at the recipes and try one, two, or all of them…you won’t be let down.  If you don’t have time or you don’t prefer corned beef, something like a nice shepherd’s pie using ground lamb would be a nice hearty Irish inspired meal as well.

Speaking of lamb…up next, a whole roasted leg of lamb recipe using roasted garlic, rosemary, and sage.  Stay tuned for that tomorrow.  Until then, time to get going on St. Patrick’s Day!