<p>I need suggestions for St. Patrick’s Day dishes without meat. DH and DD don’t eat beef but they do eat chicken, turkey and fish. </p>
<p>Oh, and I’m not really a great cook so I need easy suggestions, please! :)</p>
<p>Colcannon Potatoes is an Irish classic: (just leave out the bacon 
2 pounds cabbage, shredded
2 cups water
4 pounds potatoes, peeled and quartered
2 cups milk
1 cup chopped green onions
Salt and coarsely ground pepper to taste
1/4 cup butter, melted
Crumbled cooked bacon and minced fresh parsley</p>
<pre><code>In a large saucepan, bring cabbage and water to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-12 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving cooking liquid. Keep cabbage warm.
Place cooking liquid and potatoes in a large saucepan; add enough additional water to cover the potatoes. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 15-17 minutes or until tender. Drain and keep warm.
In a small saucepan, bring milk and onions to a boil; remove from the heat. In a large bowl, mash potatoes. Add milk mixture; beat until blended. Beat in the cabbage, salt and pepper. Drizzle with the melted butter, bacon and parsley.
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<p>try serving the potatoes with
Irish Salmon:</p>
<pre><code>2 tablespoons honey
¼ cup cider vinegar
¼ cup Irish whiskey
2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
1 ½ teaspoons grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
salt & freshly ground black pepper
4 (6 ounce) salmon fillets
Mix together honey, vinegar, whiskey, thyme, lemon zest, oil, salt and pepper. Pour over salmon and marinate 1 hour on the counter, or 4 hours refrigerated.
Preheat oven to 450°F.
Remove salmon from marinade and place on a rack over a roasting pan.
Grill or Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, basting once with the marinade or until golden and white juices are just beginning to appear.
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<p>^sounds great!</p>
<p>The family loves salmon and they also love potatoes. Sounds like my menu is set! Off to the grocery store. Thanks!</p>
<p>I think I just talked myself into the same dinner as well. Sounds pretty good and don’t forget the Guinness!</p>
<p>And don’t forget dessert:
a bit complicated, but to die for: [Irish</a> Car Bomb Cupcakes Recipe | Brown Eyed Baker](<a href=“http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2011/03/14/irish-car-bomb-cupcakes/]Irish”>Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes Recipe)
I have made these twice. shortcut that worked well was a Betty Crocker Dark Chocolate cake mix made into cupcakes, just substitute Guinness for the water. And, increase the whiskey to 1-2 TBSP.
Or option 2, much easier than the cupcakes and healthier than the fast-food variety:
blend up a milkshake with 2 cups vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt, 1 cup milk and add 1/2 tsp peppermint extract and 1/4 tsp green food coloring. Voila, homemade “Shamrock Shakes”. You can top with whipped cream and green sprinkles.
Think I’m going to try the salmon tonight!</p>
<p>I’d go to an Irish pub for fish and chip. For my husband he would skip food and go for the Guiness beer for lunch. That is how we avoid eating meat on St. Patrick’s day.</p>
<p>You all are making me hungry.</p>
<p>At the start of our St. Patricks Day study unit, I asked my first graders in the Catskills what they knew about this holiday. </p>
<p>One said, “That’s when the bakeries sell green bagels.”</p>
<p>^^^^^</p>
<p>love it!</p>
<p>I used your recipe for my daughter tonight. She was home for spring break from her stint with MTC (Mississippi Teacher Corps) and I wanted to make a meal that she would really enjoy. She is leaving tomorrow for Mississippi and she will not be here for our annual outing to listen to a local Celtic duo. The fish was great! Thanks much!</p>
<p>Aunt Molly’s Irish soda bread:</p>
<p>2 cups all purpose flour
4 tablespoons sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup buttermilk
2/3 cup currants or raisins</p>
<p>Butter a 9" cake pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in large bowl. Cut in butter with a fork until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Make a well in the center, and add buttermilk. Stir to blend. Mix in currants or raisins. Turn out dough onto the counter, and using floured hands, knead several times and shape dough into ball. Place in pan and flatten slightly. Cut an X across the top of the dough. Bake about 45 minutes until bread makes a hollow sound when tapped and tester comes out clean.</p>
<p>Was going to start a separate thread, but that seems silly… How about a very simple dessert idea to make ? My mom is making a Jiggs dinner and my niece is making Sheperds Pie.<br>
I have a busy day tomorrow but would like a simple dessert to bring. Don’t want to store buy dessert and don’t want anything with alcohol in it…maybe something with green on it???</p>
<p>We went out to dinner tonight - H and I shared a Guinness brownie with Bailey’s ice cream, and some sort of whiskey meringue. It was called an “Irish car bomb” - a rather tasteless name, actually, but it tasted pretty good. </p>
<p>Irish desserts are difficult - they’re not known for sweets. I usually make a fluffy layer cake with some sort of spiked frosting. I’ve also made this chocolate whiskey cake:</p>
<p>[Chocolate</a> Whiskey Bundt Cake Recipe at Epicurious.com](<a href=“http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Whiskey-Bundt-Cake-232636]Chocolate”>http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Whiskey-Bundt-Cake-232636)</p>
<p>Gingerbread cake with whiskey sauce is another idea, but any plain cake with whisky sauce would be great.</p>
<p>Whiskey Sauce:
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
2 teaspoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons cold water
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup Irish whiskey</p>
<p>Bring the cream to a boil, combine the cornstarch and water, and add the mixture to the boiling cream, stirring constantly. Return to a boil, then reduce the heat and cook, stirring, for about 30 seconds, being careful not to burn the mixture. Add the sugar and bourbon, and stir. Let cool to room temperature.</p>
<p>Just noticed your “no alcohol” request. Gingerbread or spice cake would be good endings to the meal.</p>
<p>My son and his roommates are having their annual “kegs and eggs” this morning. He called me to ask how he could get green food coloring into the keg.</p>