Whether you’re Irish or just feeling a little Irish your hungry fans will kiss you when you whip up these recipes for St. Patrick’s Day! Below are 12 delicious Irish and Ireland-inspired recipes, including sandwiches, a slow cooker meal, breads, and plenty of sweets! Find your new favorite St. Patrick’s Day recipe here. ☘️ Sláinte! […]
Slow Cooker Irish Steak & Stout over Colcannon
While researching and thinking about Irish recipes to make this month I made a long list of possibilities, of traditional Irish dishes as well as some of American-Irish dishes. Many of the recipes looked to me like they would be really good enjoyed together. And that is how this dish came to be. Colcannon is […]
Bailey’s Irish Cream Scones with Whiskey-Chocolate Sauce
Tender scones full of Bailey’s Irish Cream flavor become part of a great dessert when topped with fresh, sweetened whipped cream and whiskey chocolate sauce! Creating this recipe led to my doing a little digging into the origin of Irish cream – and what I learned turned out to be quite interesting and unexpected! I […]
Corned Beef & Cabbage Slaw Sandwiches
Corned beef & cabbage is a dish often associated with the Irish and with St. Patrick’s Day. Both of my grandmothers made it on St. Patrick’s Day, and one of them isn’t even Irish. (Though corned beef and cabbage also fits well with the idea of a New England boiled dinner, which might be why […]
Sweet Potato Pie
A creamy, sweet potato pie was a new adventure for my family – and we loved it! A few years back I did a series of 26 pies from A to Z, and some of those pies are on my blog today (like the Vichyssoise Leek & Potato Pie, Wee Little Blueberry Pies and Toffee […]
Rutabaga Home Fries Topped With Parmesan Cheese
Seasoned and browned, cubes of winter rutabaga are quite tasty when cooked up like home fries! Sturdy, humble rutabagas! As part of my quest to learn more about the root vegetables that are abundant in winter at local markets and from community farm shares, I grabbed a few rutabagas… but what to do with them […]
Colorful Kohlrabi Slaw with Lemon-Maple Dressing
This winter root veggie makes a crisp and tasty coleslaw! This intriguing root veggie caught my eye at the winter Farmer’s Market: bright green spheres, still damp and dirty from storage, with concentric, pale ridges in the skin. The name was somewhat familiar but I had never tried it before: kohlrabi. When I took some […]
Roasted Potato Canapes with Bacon Jam & Parmesan
Crisp and thin slices of roasted potato hold sweet-savory bacon jam! *This post may contain affiliate links.* For a recent gathering of friends I brought a little appetizer made with a freshly cooked batch of bacon jam. About a week earlier I had declared to my friend Chris that I would be making an amazing appetizer […]
Sweet Potato & Spicy Chorizo Fritters
A very popular snack at our house, mashed sweet potatoes and chorizo sausage in a fritter! With the creation of this recipe, I think I need to come clean and state that I will apparently turn anything into a fritter! It all started with sweet summer blueberries that I added to a batch of Blueberry […]
Vichyssoise Leek & Potato Pie
A flaky pie shell holds a rich filling of leeks, potatoes and cream! This post may contain affiliate links. Warning: this pie is leeky. When I created this recipe a few years ago it was shortly after a family movie night to watch Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. The best thing about that […]
New Year’s Eve Appetizers Roundup!
As New Year’s Eve approaches, you may be wondering what delicious treats you can put out at your cocktail party, or you need an appetizer to bring to a gathering! Here are 5 ideas for New Year’s Eve appetizers: some savory and some sweet. They are unique, sumptuous and all but one can be picked […]
Cranberry Nutella Sandwich Cookies
I’ve been playing with several cranberry recipes this holiday season, but this one is my favorite so far! I love to pick up several bags of cranberries and stash them in the freezer, to have on hand for cranberry sauce, Cranberry Eggnog Muffins, and now for these tender sandwich cookies. There is something so delicious […]