Cooking
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 that's what we made.
Eggs made the Nero Wolfe way: stirring constantly for a very, very long time.
Potatoes: baked potatoes cut into wedges, dipped in buttermilk then a mixture of flour, cayenne, salt & pepper (twice), then deep-fried.
Bangers for Matt. Yes, they're hard to find but I lucked out (The Vermont Country Store, I thank you).
And brown bread. Perfect, amazing bread with Kerrygold butter.
Mugs of Brigadoon tea from Adagio Teas...& it was almost like being back.
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Cooking
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 that's what we made.
Eggs made the Nero Wolfe way: stirring constantly for a very, very long time.
Potatoes: baked potatoes cut into wedges, dipped in buttermilk then a mixture of flour, cayenne, salt & pepper (twice), then deep-fried.
Bangers for Matt. Yes, they're hard to find but I lucked out (The Vermont Country Store, I thank you).
And brown bread. Perfect, amazing bread with Kerrygold butter.
Mugs of Brigadoon tea from Adagio Teas...& it was almost like being back.
- 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...
- 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...
- Go Ahead And Kiss Me...irish Food For St. Pat's
When Zorra sent me an email asking me to join the St. Patrick's Day: Green or Irish event, I immediately wrote back and said she could count on me. St. Paddy's is my second-favorite holiday (after Halloween, coincidentally). I am, in fact, Irish....
- 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...
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It's egg and toast time again (add this to Sunday night's sushi and IMBB?, we've been running through a lot of eggs!); until I'm instructed to quote Shakespeare or submit my entry in the form of a Gilbert & Sullivan tune...here we go....