It's almost that time.. St. Patty's Day.....

Just an Irish Wish for you.

Hey, although I already had one corned beef brisket in the refrigerator, I found a sale at one of the supermarkets here for first-cut corned beef briskets at $1.99 a pound and I bought four of them today for the freezer. Each one is between 3 1/2 and 3 3/4 pounds. There's eventually going to be a whole lot of hash going on.

Hmmm. I wonder about corned beef and cabbage runzas.

I did that last year.....But............I think I might make some corned beef and tater pasties......
I need to experiement... and you know I LOVE sharing my experiments with my RF friends.
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I somehow find a way to be on the deck at Tommy Condon's Bar in Charleston for St. Patrick's Day. The beer flows, the corned beef and cabbage is wonderful and the soda bread is light.

Hello all ,

Benzee will be working the St. Pats Parade or be on duty somewhere in the metroplitan area .
Happy St Pats day to all

Benzee

I wish I was in Savannah, GA for the St. Pats day. I have never been there for that celebration but I understand they do it up real good.

Paul E. Smith
knoxville, TN

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

I wish I was in Savannah, GA for the St. Pats day. I have never been there for that celebration but I understand they do it up real good.

Paul E. Smith
knoxville, TN

After NYC, it's the most well attended parade for St. Pats in the nation.

Too bad for me as I am working on St. Patty's day night. We are hosting a dinner at the American Legion on Friday instead. I most certainly will be helping out and then getting my ration of green beer, corned beef and cabbage. There is no parade here in Wickenburg AZ. as most of the people here are of German decent. Have a safe and happy holiday weekend everyone!!!

David O.

I will be having Kegs & Eggs at our local lions club that morning.

We are having our annual Spring Pancake Breakfast, on the menu:

Green Shamrock pancakes
Green Milk
Green OJ
Biscuits & Gravy
Eggs (NOT GREEN)
Green pears
Sausages

and behind the scenes...... Killians on draught

Already started my celebration.....

What happened, Pete? Did you realize it was a house?

Hopefully, nobody but eagle-eyed Desertdog saw my response to that photo before I deleted it...

I always super look forward to that annual day when we are all Irish, and make it a point to have a Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner. However, as I don't know of any one really great pub in New Jersey that specializes in this traditional treat, in recent years I've repeatedly fallen prey to eateries that boasted big and delivered little.

In fact, I'm still smarting from the nouvelle portion of corned beef and cabbage I paid $12.95 for last year, which came with a dinner-roll-sized bit of sourdough bread. Gee, yuh think yuh can spare it? Where's your spirit, man?

Therefore, this year I'm staying away from the bars that are otherwise not known year-round for their food. Instead, I will be going to my favorite diner in East Newark, New Jersey, which will be having a soup-to-nuts Corned Beef and Cabbage special for around $14.

I will be very surprised if it is not great. I plan to feast. Gosh, I hope they have the blueberry cobbler for dessert. Nothing to do with the holiday, but boy is it good.
The Bear

Hello All,
My parents, bless their souls, didn't and don't have an Irish bone in their bodies, so
while they made good cabbage, they relied on Hormel Corned Beef in a can.
It wasn't until I married my wife, (whose family is 99% Norwegian, but she was born and
raised in New York,) that I tasted and fell in love with real corned beef.
Prior to marrying her, St. Patrick's Day was just a bar party, an excuse to get drunk.
Now that I don't need an excuse to get drunk, I prefer to appreciate the food and meaning
of the holiday or event, and of the culture from which it sprang.
If you have time, check St. Patrick's bio. His name was Maewyn and he was captured and
made a slave before his conversion. His life and works are very interesting.
This year, my daughter is home for spring break and will be watching my son so my wife
and I can go out on St. Patrick's Day (we haven't had a night out alone since last August.)
The only problem is...my wife wants Italian.
Take Care,
Fieldthistle

paul, you are absolutely right. in fact, i believe some thousand or so college kids have already started here(savannah). it would be a great idea, one year, for roadfoodies to come and join this celebration. hey, if anyone is coming this year, let me know, youu should drop by my little place.
this year, for the parade, i just heard, we have 351 units in the parade. iver 50 different marching bands, one of them is 250 member strong. yea, thats alot of parade! the largest ever.
but then, after the parade, the boozing starts, and dont stop until your pickeled carcasses are scraped off the side walk. in some cases it takes several days to get that way. thats why the teenagers have already started. i believe that even the family pet get tipsy, this time of the year.

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Originally posted by Poverty Pete

Hopefully, nobody but eagle-eyed Desertdog saw my response to that photo before I deleted it...

Darn!
Missed another one!

I've never celebrated this. So what's a girl to do if she don't party, don't like beer and the family is not fond of corned beef?

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Originally posted by BhamBabe

I've never celebrated this. So what's a girl to do if she don't party, don't like beer and the family is not fond of corned beef?

Get thee to a nunnery?

Try a nice lamb stew if that doesn't work out for you.

BhamBabe - Continue not to celebrate, make a great cajun dinner and enjoy it.

or

Eat a bowl of Lucky Charms for breakfast!

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Originally posted by BhamBabe

I've never celebrated this. So what's a girl to do if she don't party, don't like beer and the family is not fond of corned beef?

Make a key lime pie and rename it a St. Paddy's Day Pie.

Have a Shamrock shake!

As for myself, I will be painting my entire body green and getting hammered.

We'll be having corned beef, cabbage new red potatoes and corn bread for dinner Saturday. I may quaff a beer for the spirit of it all.

MikeS.

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Originally posted by EliseT

Have a Shamrock shake!

As for myself, I will be painting my entire body green and getting hammered.

Of course, You ALWAYS post such great pics, I am assuming we will see the illustrious Elise in her greenest finery?(just kidding)

We'll see if the pics could be used as evidence before I dcide to post any...

CajunKing, I like your pics, take some photos if you can.

Besides the corned beef and cabbage with red potatoes and carrots, that day we consume irish soda bread, green bagels, lime green jello cake, irish cheddar cheese, irish breakfast tea, McSorley's ale, Bushmills whisky.

You don't have to be irish to love St. Patrick's Day. Its a party!

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Originally posted by EliseT

Have a Shamrock shake!

As for myself, I will be painting my entire body green and getting hammered.

Now That Would be a sight......
You are going to post pictures right!?!

It's a little late for this year, but make plans to come to Jackson, MS, for St Patrick's Day next year. We have the 4th largest parade in the US(behind only New York, Boston & Savannah)

My husband and I (as usual) will be riding on the Fenian's Pub float (Fenian's is the only Irish pub in Jackson)

We know we're too old for all this carrying on, but it's so much fun we just keep on!

Some say the Devil's Dead,
Some say it's Blarney,
Some say the Devil's Dead,
and buried in Killarney.

More say he rose again,
More say he rose again,
More say he rose again, and
. . . joined the British Army!
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May you die and go to heaven,
a half hour before the devil knows you're dead!

It IS that time: Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody!

Erin Go Bragh!!!

To everyone at Roadfood I wish a fine St. Paddy's Day!

Patrick T Hat (I'm such a shameless mick)