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We're having an office potluck for St. Patrick's Day and we're all supposed to bring something. I know there are lots of Irish people here, but I know NOTHING about traditional Irish food, so I'm asking for suggestions! What can I make that will travel well, and can either be eaten cold or heated up in the microwave? Something not too complicated....I like most of my coworkers, but I don't want to slave over a hot stove all night for them!

Thanks! 🙂
 
Potato bread and soda bread are two of my all time favorite foods, but I doubt SiT would want to spend all that time baking. Unless you can buy it somewhere?

Champ? Is that Irish?

Make some mashed potato, then take some spring onions, cut them up small-ish, and put them into a pot with some milk. Put the pot on the stove and cook slowly until the sprring onions are soft. Then, mix them with the mashed potato. Simple.

Damn, where's Kean when you need her? lol
 
Thought of some more simple things we have irish shortbread which is just butter, sugar and cornflour and this traditional very irish bread called barmbrack where the tradition is theres a ring placed inside it and whomever gets the slice with the ring is the next to get married, you got to love our irish ways lol.
 
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entropy
love karma. Plus it reminded me of the Tara & Willow ring! Though on the food I'd go with O'briens Sandwiches, LOL!
BBQ'd Leprechaun, but I don't think we export it....

I actually can't think of any Irish foods, it will have potato, and make sure to have this 'Dinner' at around 3 O'Clock in the afternoon (I've come to think we do that so it makes it more socially acceptable to be pissed by 6:30!)
 
Irish Food?!? Good God, is it a masochism party?!?!

Let's see, anything Potato-Related is a winner, including boxty -
Boxty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a coddle -
Coddle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

colcannon-
Colcannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or fried Potato Farls. Bacon's a winner, too, anything with it in it can pass as Irish. Good ol' Galtee rashers or bacon-and-cabbage.

There's a couple of bready type things too,like Brack (Barmbrack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) or Soda Bread, and other than that seafood and a pint of stoutis a pretty distinctive one. Usually oysters. Things with Whiskey or Guinness in them are a good bet, generally.

Deep fried Mars Bars are more closely associated with Scotland than here, but there are still plenty of places in Dublin that do them and they're unbelievably brilliant. Not sure how much of that is useful to a pot luck deal, but think creatively. 😀
 
I don't think it's irish but it could pass for it, cut up pieces of bacon in Mashed Potato, very nice.
 
Just put a pile of potatoes in the middle of the room - that should do the trick.


Better yet, put them in the middle of the room as long before hand as possible and make them go rotten.
Thats the real Ireland!
 
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Silum
Only you could reference the potatoe famine and still sound funny
Kean
Kean
Famine jokes are about as funny as Holocaust jokes i.e. not at all.
No, for the authentic famine experience, you should show up empty handed.

And then stay bitter about it for the next two hundred years or so.
 
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Silum
LOL, i only laugh because of my o' whatever named friend who never stop talking about how they kept their o' ...maybe i should mention that im part Irish to somehow redeem myself...no...no i dont think that would work
LMAO...y'all are so MEAN! Ok, I know it's history, but still.

I did actually think of bringing mashed potatoes (and calling everyone when it's time to eat, "come get your fluffy white potatoes...." just to see if they get the reference, but they probably wouldn't. Someone has already claimed soda bread and someone else claimed stew, so that's out. I like Silum's cabbage idea, that sounds good and I could make it in a crock pot, would be easy to transport AND you can eat it cold or hot.....hmmmmmm.



Oh, Jill! We are the kings and queens of deep fried stuff! You name it, we'll batter and fry it; fried pickles, fried Snickers bars, fried green tomatoes......I don't know how well Mars bars would go over, everyone seems to be on a health conscious kick these days. Of course, we're obviously in the "any excuse to party and eat" mode, too, so who knows!?
 
Pretty sure haggis is a Scottish thing, isn't it?

I'm just trying to defend the honour of my adopted homeland 😉

Irish food....ummm.....potatoes and guinness? *shugs and hides*
 
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StuckinTraffic
I know I'd appreciate some Guinness!
Like proper scratch scratch? Chase a sheep and cut it open and rip out its stomach type scratch?


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Oh, the strange mental images going though my head right now....
 
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Selig
Mmm, love haggis! Not too keen on chasing and killing the sheep tho, prefer the supermarket
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