I have no link to Irish heritage and I don’t drink but I do like corned beef. .
Do you have any St. Patrick’s Day plans, food plans, clothing plans, or stories to share??
I’m wearing a green sweater for my Zoom work meetings today and have on my favorite Balega rainbow socks.
When the kids were young we’d hype up the day. A leprechaun would leave a green chalk message on the driveway. Once they left green frosted donuts! The refrig milk suddenly turned green overnight.
My youngest tells the story of being TERRIFIED in kindergarten when the class left the room to go to gym or something and when they came back “a leprechaun” had trashed their classroom. Chairs flipped over, papers strew, books on the floor. Girl was traumatized!!
So funny, if it weren’t for CC, I wouldn’t know what day it is. DH’s mother is Irish, and he likes to wear (any time) the Guinness shirt he bought at the Dublin brewery, but we don’t like corned beef, cooked cabbage, beer (me), or anything to do with the usual hullaballo, so I guess just another day here. I don’t know if our son marks the day. We didn’t when he was young.
St. Patrick’s festivities started over the weekend here….Irish dancers, bagpipers, etc. I don’t like corned beef/cabbage but will celebrate later today w/friends and a Guinness. Looking forward to traveling later this year to Ireland
I made corned beef yesterday. The beef was outstanding (American wagyu from Costco!). Much tastier than the “bricks” we used to buy in the past! But the cabbage was the star of the meal. No Irish heritage here, just feeling festive!
Our town’s parade was last Saturday, which is a huge pub crawl, we attended an annual morning party with an Irish breakfast (for about 40 or so, open house), Irish coffee, Jameson shots, beer and wine, lots of desserts. This Saturday was also a big annual Saint Patrick’s day party, with corned beef and cabbage, tons of food and drink, of course a piper. Started at 2, I left at 4:30, H walked home around 11:30 (close to 2 miles, he’s too cheap for his own uber). He has band practice tonight so making the corned beef tomorrow (I love it, have 5 ), only buy on sale. My mom’s parents were first generation Americans (between the 2 of them they had 13 siblings).
I had 2 Irish dancers, my daughter was in NYC celebrating a college friend’s birthday, ended up dancing with someone she didn’t think she knew, but turns out they competed. When they were growing up, Saint Patrick’s day was a season the whole month of March with dance outs and parades. I wasn’t a fan of march..
I don’t know how the parents do it! The Irish dancers we saw Saturday evening had been to 4 events that day, plus more today. And probably many more before the weekend!
Over the weekend, I went to two St. Patty’s celebrations. On Saturday I stopped by the parade and fair in San Francisco and it was….not my scene AT ALL. It was every college student from a 50 mile radius aggressively day drinking so that by noon, there were already gangs of staggering and vomiting 21-year olds (and. I assume, younger). It was pretty messy and not my thing.
Sunday I went to the city of Dublin, California which of course also has a big celebration in honor of its namesake city. It was much more my kind of fun - tons of food, music, Irish dancing, and a good overall vibe.
Today D is battling a nasty cold virus so that puts a damper on the festivities, but that’s OK, because we had our fun over the weekend.
I had no idea I was Irish until about 15 years ago when I did some genealogy. I used that as an excuse to cook corned beef every year on March 17th. I don’t like cooked cabbage, so I put the beef in my crockpot with potatoes, carrots, onions and a little beer. It’s delicious!
I’m traveling all day so it’s not happening today. But if I see an unsold corned beef when I pick up groceries tomorrow, I’ll buy it.
I’m wearing green and planning to cook potatoes for dinner. That’s about it. Don’t drink any more. I don’t have any Irish heritage that I know of but I have a few friends in Ireland and love the country.
Last week was the good week, $1.99 - $2.99 a pound but limited to one (thank goodness we remember our deceased parents’ phone numbers to get multiple).
Corned beef is cooking in the oven right now. Smells soooo good. I love corned beef, with spicy mustard, but only make it on St. Patrick’s Day. Made Irish soda bread last night because I was out most of today. I love that too! Going to start the cabbage soon. Wearing my Notre Dame Fighting Irish t-shirt (son - class of ‘23) because it’s the brightest green shirt I own. One great -grandmother and one great-great grandmother were from Ireland.
I didn’t get corned beef this year. (It was quite pricey at my usual market, and that is a hard sell to me for unhealthy food… especially prior to physical/bloodwork.). But when I do, I cook with cabbage and carrots and potatoes in a crockpot.
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rainbow socks.
