Are you ready?

Saint Patrick's day is coming. Are you ready?

Here's our fun menu for the day:

Breakfast

Bangers
Irish Soda Bread, toasted
McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal

Lunch "Pub Grub"

Grilled Cheese sandwiches made with Irish Soda Bread and imported aged Dubliner Cheese.

Dinner

Corned Beef and Cabbage
Colcannon ( mashed Potato/Cabbage/Bacon and scallions with a "knob of butter")
Irish Soda Bread
Ice Cold Guiness
Fruit Scones for dessert

If you want to make Irish Soda Bread you need to get busy and do it today! It needs a day to "age" to perfection.

Here's the recipe:

3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/3 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda. (Sift together several times to be sure soda is distributed throughout) Blend egg and buttermilk together, and add all at once to the flour mixture. Mix just until moistened. Stir in butter. Pour into prepared pan.

Bake for 65 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Wrap in foil for several hours, or overnight, for best flavor.

Comments

[missmellifluous]

This is great! I love fresh bread. I'd like to try this.

Do you guys have Irish anscestry?

[Kim]

We went to a traditional Irish Pub restuarant while on holiday. I had a sea food chowder. It was yummy! I love Irish Soda Bread. I have never toasted it before.

[Kim from Hiraeth]

My husband's family is German on his father's side and English on his mother's.

I am Irish/Welsh on my father's side and English/Scottish on my mother's, so the British Isles have it!

Kim

I'll let you in on a little secret--I've never toasted it either--yet!

[Homemanager]

Kim,
Do you have a good Brisket recipe?

[Kim from Hiraeth]

What kind of brisket recipe are you looking for? I have a few, but not to make corned beef brisket--I buy mine already seasoned and ready to bake.

If you do a search on the Food Network website, you'll find more brisket recipes than you'll know what to do with!

[Carol]

Nobody's Irish around here. We'll do well to remember to wear green.

However, should you be willing to call attention to this same post about a week earlier next year, I'll give it the ol' Irish-wannabe try!

[Kim from Hiraeth]

I'll try to remember to do that, Carol! But in exchange for some Irish recipes, I want a Creole/Cajun/Tex-Mex recipe!