Cooking
File under 'things you should know about Stephanie':
1. My favorite holiday is Halloween
2. My second favorite holiday is St. Patrick's Day.
I am, in fact, Irish (around half), so that makes it even better.
So, for Thursday's dinner, I did my best recreation of the many farmhouse B&B breakfasts Matt and I enjoyed during our honeymoon in Ireland.
I started out by making an incredibly simple White Soda Bread; it's true that we were served considerably more brown bread in Ireland than white, but I just didn't have the time!
Keeping with the 'simple yet hearty' theme, I fried some chopped onion and garlic in a mix of butter and olive oil till soft, then added boiled, sliced, red potatoes, cooking till browned and crispy.
I cooked up some bacon for Matt, while Alex and I had a few slices of Morningstar Farms' veggie bacon.
Scrambled eggs; with Irish cheddar for the two vegetarians in the family, and
a bit of cream, smoked salmon and dill for Matt.
Lovely Kerry Gold Irish butter spread over the soda bread, and a nice hot cuppa tea, with sugar and cream to finish off.
Again, so very easy, but it was vaguely traditional...and brought back some very pleasant memories.
Hope your St. Pat's was just as happy.
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Cooking
Actual Irish Post
File under 'things you should know about Stephanie':
1. My favorite holiday is Halloween
2. My second favorite holiday is St. Patrick's Day.
I am, in fact, Irish (around half), so that makes it even better.
So, for Thursday's dinner, I did my best recreation of the many farmhouse B&B breakfasts Matt and I enjoyed during our honeymoon in Ireland.
I started out by making an incredibly simple White Soda Bread; it's true that we were served considerably more brown bread in Ireland than white, but I just didn't have the time!
Keeping with the 'simple yet hearty' theme, I fried some chopped onion and garlic in a mix of butter and olive oil till soft, then added boiled, sliced, red potatoes, cooking till browned and crispy.
I cooked up some bacon for Matt, while Alex and I had a few slices of Morningstar Farms' veggie bacon.
Scrambled eggs; with Irish cheddar for the two vegetarians in the family, and
a bit of cream, smoked salmon and dill for Matt.
Lovely Kerry Gold Irish butter spread over the soda bread, and a nice hot cuppa tea, with sugar and cream to finish off.
Again, so very easy, but it was vaguely traditional...and brought back some very pleasant memories.
Hope your St. Pat's was just as happy.
- Irish Breakfast Dinner For St. Pat's
Forget stews or corned beef. When we were in Ireland it was all about the breakfasts. Wonderful, creamy eggs. Smoked salmon for Matt (just about every day). There were always potatoes, in some form. And of course...the bread. Wonderful brown bread. So...
- Because I'm Still Irish The Other 364 Days
Medallions of Beef with Port Sauce & Cashel Blue Cheese Everyone was making their colcannon & stew & lamb for St. Patrick's day...only my second-favorite holiday of the year (go ahead, guess what took the #1 spot?). Meanwhile...everyone...
- Tea For Three
Smoked Salmon Pinwheels We're a family that likes it's tea, as well as appetizers and other nibble-worthy foods, so it only makes sense to serve tea for dinner. My dining room is the worst room for taking pictures, I'm afraid. But, I set...
- There Was No Wearin' Of The Green, But...
When we were in Ireland a few years back, practically every where we ate...from pubs to restaurants to castles...we found ourselves being served a trio of dishes: a simple green salad with a mustard-y dressing, a coleslaw with shredded carrot, and a...
- Retro Recipe Challenge#4: 1918 Fall Favorites
My father-in-law continues his sorting and cleaning, and some months ago I was given a copy of the Rumford Complete Cook Book, published in 1918, that had been his grandmother's. This book is sufficiently old that baking instructions take the form...