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Saint Patricks Day

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Luck of the Irish-a roundup of St. Patrick’s Day appropriate food and drink

2024/03/04 By Melinda Leave a Comment

From coffee to dessert and some condiments in between- a selection of Irish inspired recipes for Saint Patricks Day or the day after or anytime you’re feeling lucky.

Filed Under: Recipe Round Ups Tagged With: irish, Saint Patricks Day, st. Patrick's day

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Irish Cream Pie w/graham cracker crust

2019/03/15 By Melinda 2 Comments

Irish Cream Pie topped with real whipped cream from above

This delicious custard cream pie uses the raw ingredients for Irish Cream (no Baileys, just Whiskey) to make a from scratch pie that satisfies all your Irish Cream cravings.  With a crisp graham cracker crust and just a whisper of chocolate and coffee this should remind you both of your favorite cream pie and of […]

Filed Under: Irish Inspired, Recipes, Sweet Tagged With: Saint Patricks Day

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Guinness Irish Stout and Mushroom Gravy

2018/03/17 By Melinda 2 Comments

A rich and hearty gravy made with Guinness Irish Stout and mushrooms. Perfect with potatoes, bangers, or add a little milk or cream and make a luxuriously silky malty beer for breakfast biscuits and gravy.

Filed Under: Cast Iron, Condiments, Sauces, and Gravies, Irish Inspired, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: gravy, guinness, Irish stout, mushroom, mushroom gravy, Onion, Saint Patricks Day

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Feeling Lucky: Individual Irish Soda Breads with chive butter

2015/03/17 By Melinda 1 Comment

Quick and delicious Individual Irish Soda breads slathered with chive butter. Made without eggs and kneaded in the food processor these rolls, adapted from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, are as quick as biscuits but as versatile as yeasted bread. Feeling Lucky: on finding four-leaf clovers For my fifth and sixth grade years we […]

Filed Under: Breads Biscuits Buns, Cast Iron, Irish Inspired, Quick Breads, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: butter, Chives, Irish Soda Bread, quick, rolls, Saint Patricks Day

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Homemade Guinness Mustard

2015/03/15 By Melinda 4 Comments

Homemade Guinness Mustard: Spicy, malty, mustardy, and made by you. Eat it all or share with your friends. Ah March, home of the other amateur drinking day when the party tents go up at every Irish bar in town. Years ago in San Francisco I went to one of my favorite watering holes with a […]

Filed Under: Condiments, Sauces, and Gravies, Irish Inspired, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: guinness, mustard, Saint Patricks Day, stout

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maple meyer lemon hot toddy

2015/01/20 By Melinda Leave a Comment

Meyer lemon and maple melded with just a whisper of rosemary in a hot toddy that makes the cold a little less so.

Filed Under: Drinks, Hot Drinks, Recipes Tagged With: cocktail, maple syrup, meyer lemon, rosemary, Rum, Saint Patricks Day

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