What is something Irish to eat on St. Patrick's Day - besides corned beef and cabbage?

Answer 1

green eggs and ham

Answer 2

Actually, funny you mention that, because corned beef and cabbage is not really an Irish meal. It's an Irish-American meal, but you won't find it in Ireland (corned beef and cabbage was a meal Irish immigrants came up with to replace their traditional boiled bacon and cabbage because bacaon is different over here so it wasn't the same).

If you want something Irish, then Irish stew is your best bet. Serve it with some extra crusty soda bread and of course a good stout!

Here's one of my particularly favorite versions along with a recipe for soda bread.

Glens of Antrim Irish Stew
Ingredients
1 ounce/25 g butter
2 pounds/900 g lamb or beef, cubed
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
2 carrots, chopped
1 Tbsp plain flour (optional)
1/2 pint/275 ml beef stock
2 Tbsp tomato puree
1/2 Tbsp sugar
2 potatoes, cubed (optional)
1 bottle of Guinness or a large glass of red wine
1 bouquet garni (sprig of parsley, sprig of thyme, 1 bay leaf tied up in muslin)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Tabasco sauce


Instructions
Melt the butter in a large pan and fry the meat in it until browned on all sides. Do not crowd the pan; brown the meat in two or three batches if necessary. Remove the meat from the pan, add the onion and carrots and cook until slightly softened.

Return the meat to the pan, add the flour, if using, then stir in the stock, tomato puree and sugar. Bring to the boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer. Add the potatoes, if using, the Guinness or the wine, the bouquet garni and salt and pepper to taste.

Cook over a low heat for about 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until the meat is tender. While the stew is simmering, add 4 or 5 drops of tabasco to taste.

Yield: 4 servings

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Soda bread recipe:
1lb/ 1/2kg/ 4 cups plain flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp sugar (optional)
1pt/ 1/2 lr/ 2 cups buttermilk or sour milk

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Sieve the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Scoop up handfuls and allow to drop back into the bowl to aerate the mixture. Add enough buttermilk to make a soft dough. Now work quickly as the buttermilk and soda are already reacting. Knead the dough lightly - too much handling will toughen it, while too little means it won't rise properly.
Form a round loaf about as thick as your fist. Place it on a lightly-floured baking sheet and cut a cross in the top with a floured knife. Put at once to bake near the top of a pre-heated oven, gas mark 8, 450°F, 230°C, for 30-45 minutes. When baked, the loaf will sound hollow when rapped on the bottom with your knuckles. Wrap immediately in a clean tea-towel to stop the crust hardening too much.

Answer 3

Irish Soda Bread
Boiled potatoes

Answer 4

Irish Lamb Stew

Answer 5

Bangers (Irish Sausages)
Irish Whiskey Steak
Shepherd's Pie

Answer 6

Guinness

Answer 7

(spuds,bacon,and cabbage with swede),lamb stew,Dublin coddle,seafood chowder served with brown bread,or you could have my husbands favourite meal a full Irish breakfast,rasher,sausage,white pudding,black pudding,eggs,fried tomato,fried mushroom,and fried left over spuds.

Answer 8

eat a thick irish beer

Answer 9

potatoes, beer and Irish whisky (true Irish Whisky is spelled this way) If it's not Irish it's spelled whiskey.

Answer 10

catch a couple of those little green bastards hanging out by the end of the rainbow and cook them up.. um-um-ummmm... tasty