Saint Patrick's Day at our house is more about food than anything else.
I strive to make traditional dishes with a twist, and we all have a lot of fun coming
up with a menu that will meet the dietary needs of both the carnivores
and the pescetarians.
Fortunately, this is an easy task, and a delicious one.
We'd like to share our personal favorites from Saturday.
Soda bread can be dry and uninteresting.
The following version, tweaked by my best friend, Michael, is tangy and nearly dessert-worthy.
I embellished it with a light lemon glaze the next day to create the perfect breakfast bread for my 3
busy college students. I also doubled the recipe.
Lord Reilly’s Irish Soda Bread
3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
16 oz. container sour cream
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 cup Craisins…. YES CRAISINS!!!
Mix all dry ingredients well. Add egg and sour cream. Fold ingredients with floured hands until well combined, but not overly mixed. Bake at 375 degrees in greased 9” cake pan for about 50-60 minutes or until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Enjoy!
Serve as a dessert or for breakfast… Add a little butter and OMG YUM!
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Tell me this doesn't look moist and irresistible.
Now onto a main course.
Mussels are usually cheap. I bought 3 pounds for $3.99 per pound, which was plenty.
Savannah and Thom had two heaping helpings each.
With Thom, this is not unusual.
It's high praise indeed from the figure conscious daughter.
Irish Mussel Stew
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This is my hack of an appetizer recipe from our favorite Irish pub, and it's amazing!
Garlic bread to enjoy with the mussels.
Simmered veggies.
Fall-apart corned beef for the carnivores.
Make sure there's plenty for Reubens!
Now, onto dessert!
Green Velvet Cake (recipe by Bakerella)
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 Tablespoons cocoa
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup oil
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 Tablespoon vinegar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 oz green food coloring
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Grease your cake pans with cooking spray.
Lightly stir eggs in a medium bowl with whisk. Add in remaining
liquid ingredients. Whisk until blended and sit aside. Mix all of the dry ingredients until well combined, then add the wet.
I used our stand mixer, and squirted in the food coloring in until I had the shade we wanted.
We did a bundt cake pan for this, which took 45 minutes.
Frost and sprinkle with decorations.
Cream Cheese Icing
1/2 stick of butter, room temperature
8 oz of cream cheese, room temperature
3 cups of powdered sugar
1 tsp of vanilla
Mix the ingredients until smooth. Add more powdered sugar if necessary.
Slather.
Join us tomorrow for How to Make Your Own Defibrillator.
I need to do some laps around the block and wrestle some lettuce from a bunny.
2 comments:
Hahaha! Quick! Take out a trademark for the Aqua Glittered Life In Rehab Defibrillator! And wow, that green velvet cake is GORGEOUSSSSSS!
It all looks delicious!!! I hear ya on trying to please all the different dietary needs!!
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