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Chocolate Irish Whiskey Cake
Is your corned beef ready for simmering yet? Your potatoes set to be peeled and boiled, your cabbage simmered, your soda bread stirred up? It’s too bad that no one thinks of smoked salmon and brown...
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Liquid Irish Luck
Homemade Irish Cream When I first discovered this recipe for Homemade Irish Cream from The Hungry Mouse, I knew I had struck Leprechaun’s gold. It was easy (with 8 ingredients, almost all of which I...
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Irish Soda Bread for St. Patrick’s Day
Homemade Irish Soda Bread with Raisins I’m not a big drinker, or a big fan of fratastic crowds, so when it comes to St. Patty’s Day, the thing I most look forward to isn’t all the block parties, or...
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Kale Pesto Quinoa and 10 Irish Beers for St. Patrick’s Day
Kale Pesto Quinoa Salad Green beer and Shamrock Shakes are just a few of the questionable ways to go green this St. Patty’s Day. Here’s another option that is festively shamrock-hued yet delicious and...
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Irish Cream Cream Puffs
It’s that time of year again to let the luck of the Irish rub off on us. Every year, I take this as an excuse to whip up a batch of my favorite homemade Irish Cream. It’s always a fun little...
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Spirited Sweets for St. Patrick’s (or Any) Day
Post by Laura B. Weiss, Kitchen Window for NPR Food (3/12/2014) Get recipes for Chocolate Kahlua Bundt Cake, Macerated Oranges, Medjool Dates And Grapes with Slivered Almonds, Beer-Candied Bacon With...
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The Dark History Of Green Food On St. Patrick’s Day
Green cupcakes may mean party time in America, but in Ireland, emerald-tinged edibles harken back to a desperate past. Photo: Ro Jo Images/iStockphoto Post by Maria Godoy, The Salt at NPR Food...
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Easy to Make for St. Patrick’s Day: Irish Soda Bread with Currants and Orange...
Irish-American Soda Bread with Currants and Orange Zest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend All photos by Wendy Goodfriend Back when I worked as a professional baker at La Farine in Rockridge, we made...
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To Eat Authentically Irish This St. Patrick’s Day, Go For The Butter
Butter labels from Irish creameries operating in the 1970s. Photo: Roland Paschhoff/Cork Butter Museum By Deena Prichep, The Salt at NPR Food (3/17/15) As scholarly buzzkills have long told us, corned...
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Corned Beef, Guinness And … Blaa? The Irish Bread You Never Knew About
Want to mark this St. Patrick’s Day with something beyond the usual corned beef and cabbage (which aren’t so traditionally Irish anyway)? Why not mix up your menu with a tasty tray of blaas? Not blaa...
View ArticleFeast Like It’s 399: What Would St. Patrick Eat?
Today is the day that the Guinness flows freely, tough brisket is transformed into tender corned beef, and we celebrate the Emerald Isle with humble cabbage. This holy trinity of meat, veg, and stout...
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Guinness Tells Beer Drinkers: Keep Your Head And Embrace The ‘Stache
If you’re planning to hoist a pint of Irish dry stout for St. Patrick’s Day, the folks at Guinness have a polite request: Don’t slurp the foamy head off their beer. It’s essentially a nitrogen cap,...
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When Other Cultures’ Holidays Become An Excuse To Party
In one sense, St. Patrick’s Day is a failure. The holiday as we know it in America was promoted by activists to celebrate Irish culture, in order to fight prejudice against Irish immigrants. Today,...
View ArticleFor St. Patrick’s Day, A True Tale Of 8 Sailors Saved By Guinness
If you’re picking up a glass of Guinness this St. Patrick’s Day, savor it while pondering this story from 1917, when Ireland’s famous stout was cause for true celebration: It saved lives. The strange...
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