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St Pat's Day Traditions


Posted: Mar 17, 2014

We boil up a corned beef, then throw it on the grill to crisp it up nice. (We live in SW FL, so weather permits every year). From there, we slice it up and put Thousand Island dressing (or Russian) on rye bread, put on the corned beef, a slice or 2 of Swiss cheese, then top that with cole slaw, and chow down. Yummy. Of course, a beer goes well with that if you are so inclined. We make our own rye bread, so all the better. We usually invite a couple of neighbors over, but not always. What do you do?;

Work - sm

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I work. Yup, its a tradition. Every year weather permitting I trudge to my desk and turn on the puter and work. It's a tradition in our house. LOL

We actually have no traditions. I'm not even wearing green even though I'm Irish. Have to laugh about the corned beef thing. Everyone thinks that corned beef and cabbage is a traditional St. Pat's day, when in Ireland that's not what they have. But I do love the taste of a good corned beef and cabbage dinner.

LOL - OP

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Yeah, I'm on a work tradition, too. However, I do have to eat, and I don't work past dinnertime, so that's what we do.

We don't like cooked cabbage (yuck), so we use the coleslaw, which is actually cabbage, so we figure we're okay there in terms of tradition, though I have to say I didn't know the Irish didn't eat that on St Pat's Day.

One time, we had 6 friends over, and one of them insisted that we had to have boiled cabbage, so I boiled him up some cabbage and the rest of us had coleslaw. All in good fun, I thanked him for making me stink up my whole house for just one person. And I made him take home the leftover cabbage.

I just wanted to be sure I was correct - sm

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My dad had told me they don't eat CB. So looked it up and the answer to my question (Do people in Ireland eat corned beef on St. Pats day) and the answer is:

"Irish people feel that corned beef and cabbage is about as Irish as spaghetti and meatballs". LOL

Little trivia (my mom told me this as explained to her from her grandmother who came from Belfast). She said that many poor people who emigrated here (and my great grandmothers family were very poor), but they used to eat bacon and cabbage (the bacon was like canadian bacon or ham), but they either couldn't find it or couldn't afford it and the next closest thing was corned beef. That's when everyone just assumed all Irish people at corned beef and cabbage. But, yeah, I'll take corned beef and cabbage any day. mmmm. I also love coleslaw too.

Come over to your house - nm

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:-)

StPaddy's - IrishEyes

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Got me a brisket/corned beef point and after much consideration put it in the crockpot on low with honey mustard/molasses/allspice glaze and decorated that with orange slices with collards and onions for flavor along with many herbs. It smells good. Probably will not eat it until tomorrow.
It sure is cold, 20 degrees below normal. Does not feel like spring.

Sure, all are invited! - OP-nm

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Our tradition is an Irish-themed dinner, tho not corned beef and cabbage - CB

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My husband isn't a fan of corned beef and cabbage, so I change it up every year. Some dishes I've made in the past are Irish bangers and mash, and Guinness stew. One year I served just apps - a cheese plate with Irish cheese (Cashel Blue, Kerrygold Skellig, Cahill's Porter) and 'crostini' with Irish smoked salmon on soda bread. Last year was poached salmon with champ and an Irish whiskey-butter sauce. This year, making Guinness-braised brisket served with colcannon and, for dessert, chocolate-stout cupcakes topped with Bailey's Irish Cream frosting. And Irish whiskey cocktails are always involved ;)

I'll Have an Irish Coffee, Please - OP-nm

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I have a St. Patrick's Day tree - wheres_my_job

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I had thought we had something really unique going...first, the Christmas tree turned into a St. Valentine's Day tree...pink and all...then that finally morphed into the St. Patrick's Day tree. I'll take it down tomorrow - see how we have the tree up almost till the First Day of Spring?

Yes, if I could I would probably leave the tree up all year round (a fake tree of course).

I'm getting some chocolate tomorrow for St. Patrick's Day - I had a dentist app't today, ate a green bagel - but wasn't able to get any "St. Patrick's Day" candy...I'd like to talk my friend into going to this ritzy mall where they have a See's Candy, but I don't think she'll go for it. I feel in need of a chocolate extravaganza...

re: really unique thing going... - wheres_my_job

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what I meant to say was, I thought the St. Patrick's tree was really unique, until I saw one at the Community Center, with shamrocks on it...

See's - OP

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See's is my favorite chocolate. We don't have a See's where I live, so we have to order it. However, I did buy myself a small bag of Ghiardella dark chocolate. It was quite delicious.

Your tree does indeed sound unique. I never saw a St Pat tree!

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