StillLivin (original poster member #40229) posted at 7:13 AM on Friday, March 6th, 2026
Besides corned beef and cabbage, what are some other traditional Irish meals prepared for this fun holiday?
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BraveSirRobin ( member #69242) posted at 1:40 PM on Friday, March 6th, 2026
Colcannon is delicious --mashed potatoes with cabbage and scallions. Also boxty (pancakes made from a mixture of mashed and shredded potato), soda bread, and beef stew with Guinness in it.
KitchenDepth5551 ( member #83934) posted at 8:40 PM on Friday, March 6th, 2026
We still have corned beef in the chest freezer from the sale last year after St Patrick's Day. I like Irish beef stew- sorry, maybe it was lamb?- and my FIL really liked oatmeal with Irish Cream when we took a trip there. It was about 20 years ago, and we arrived the day after St Patricks Day in a touristy area. We couldn't figure out why nothing was open, and the towns were dead. We were totally clueless. Great trip. Beautiful country!
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StillLivin (original poster member #40229) posted at 2:59 AM on Saturday, March 7th, 2026
These all sound pretty amazing. I'm going to try a few of these this month in honor of my 4-5% Irish DNA! 馃槀馃ぃ
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Superesse ( member #60731) posted at 5:17 AM on Saturday, March 7th, 2026
Our church used to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a group dinner serving traditional corned beef, red potatoes, carrots, cabbage and soda bread. The cook would go to a wholesale restaurant supply place and buy a jumbo piece of corned beef that he would cook (somehow, boiled?) with the included spice packets and then he would add the root veggies and finally the cabbage to the same cooking water until they were all tender enough to serve and had picked up the flavors and spices - First Class! I know Allspice berries were one of the spices, because we would see them sometimes in the bit of cooking liquid we'd get. Memorable! (Sadly those days ended just as the Covid shutdown of our church functions started and have never again resumed.)
As far as soda bread, our church cook's wife used to make this for our St. Patty's and it is was so great, even cold, with KerryGold Irish butter...rich and simple. Wish I had that recipe, too...
Now if anyone has the recipe for "Beef stew with Guinness in it" I'm all ears...
Hint hint StillLivin....
