How to Serve a Traditional Irish Dinner for St. Patrick's Day
Get your family into the spirit of the holiday by serving them a traditional Irish meal.
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Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Crystal Vases
- Fresh Flowers
- Irish Beers
- Irish Breakfast Tea
- White Cut-lace Tablecloths
- CD Of Irish Music
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Set the table with simple dishes, a cut-lace tablecloth and fresh flowers in a crystal vase.
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Buy several pints of Guinness for the adults and serve it at Irish room temperature (which is colder than ours ' about 60 degrees). Serve Harp Lager for those who do not like stout.
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Serve a hearty main dish such as corned beef and cabbage with horseradish sauce, or a warming dish such as Irish stew.
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Choose a side dish such as colcannon (a winter vegetable casserole) or black pudding, and don't forget to make some Irish soda bread to round out the meal.
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Brew a pot of Irish breakfast tea after dinner (see "How to Brew a Pot of Tea," under Related eHows) and serve a glazed Irish tea cake for dessert. You can make the tea cake a day or two beforehand and keep it wrapped in foil.
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Play Irish tunes. Consider a CD of traditional Irish music, or create a lighter mood with Irish pub songs playing in the background.
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Tips & Warnings
If children are going to be present, you may want to go with Irish stew. Kids tend to balk at anything with the word "cabbage" in it, no matter how good it is.
If you buy Guinness, get the cans with the nitrogen dispensers rather than the bottles. They have a more traditional taste. Take the beer out of your refrigerator about half an hour before serving to achieve Irish room temperature.
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Comments
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harp. No one drinks harp. Who wrote this crap. Try Fresh or smoked Irish salmon dishes or fab Irish lamb. Doesn't have to have cabbage to be Irish. We've moved on a bit!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mar 01, 2011
To be more precise on the last comment, when the Irish came to America the majority of meat markets in New York were run by Jewish shop owners who did not carry, eat, or process pork per kosher laws and so the Irish rashers (not traditional bacon as it was not smoked)were not available and the Irish had to settle for corned beef. -
Allana Baroni
Mar 17, 2008
Add some party activities to the menu to get in the Irish spirit! Here are a few ideas: - Best Irish outfit contest - Chug contest - Fill a large glass jar with new pennies or fake gold coins and have everyone try and guess how many are in the jar. Winner get the gold! - For the kids set up a station where they can die carnations green. Just have green food coloring, water, small glasses or vases, and white carnations - Don't forget the classic potato sack race, if you have the space
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Allana Baroni
Mar 17, 2008
Add some party activities to the menu to get in the Irish spirit! Here are a few ideas: - Best Irish outfit contest - Chug contest - Fill a large glass jar with new pennies or fake gold coins and have everyone try and guess how many are in the jar. Winner get the gold! - For the kids set up a station where they can die carnations green. Just have green food coloring, water, small glasses or vases, and white carnations - Don't forget the classic potato sack race, if you have the space
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writetruth
Mar 14, 2008
We still ate and eat CB&C ~ Some Irish don't like bacon with cabbage... : )
