Corned beef & cabbage w/potatoes, carrots, onion. I'm cooking it on the stove.

Maybe we'll try making some soda bread. I need to check and make sure that we have all of the ingredients on hand.

bangers and mash

Soda bread is also something to make with the children.

Shamrock-shaped sugar cookies with green sprinkles baked by the kiddos. Discussion about St. Patrick and why, according to legend, he used the shamrock when building churches in Ireland.

Corned beef and cabbage is about as authentically Irish as sweet and sour chicken is authentically Chinese.

I was going to try the irish coddle! The washpost food chat led me to some promising recipes. Or maybe just the irish coffee in the AM idea.

If there's a snow day.... Irish Coffee, in the morning.

Anonymous wrote:Can you share the coddle recipe you used last year, OP?

I don't know if I wrote it down - I wasn't exact with the ingredients, that's for sure. Google will produce some results.

Can you share the coddle recipe you used last year, OP?

corned beef and cabbage in the crock pot

(they had a really delicious looking irish coffee recipe in the times last Wed.

Attempting corned beef and cabbage

Irish lamb stew.

Breaking in my new LC French oven..corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes

Guinness for the grown-ups!

Irish coffee ....mmmm. Especially in those cute Irish coffee mugs!

This year I'm making and "Irish style" pot roast, since that's what I had in the freezer and I don't know about going out tomorrow. Last year I made something called Dublin Coddle that had bacon, sausage, potates, thin sliced onions, apple cider and thyme - it was really good and easy. I'd love to make lamb stew but that would be a budget buster...

Anything else out there?