Irish Food

Bacon and Cabbage is pretty traditional...it won't really keep for something hot or cold.

The barnbrack or Guinness cake is really nice but takes an awful long time to make.

I think Irish brown bread is yoru best bet...very easy to make, about 40 mins in the oven and then just leave it cool. Add some Kerrygold and a cup of tea and your sorted😉 I can give you a recipe if you want or if there is a Stop and Shop or Whole Foods near you I can tell you what m,ix to get...you'd just have to add some water and flour.

Alternatively there is Apple tart and fresh cream if you want something really handy to make and will of course travel well.
 
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StuckinTraffic
Oooo, recipes please? Yes, we do have a Whole Foods nearby, too....thank you so much!
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Edmund Blackadder
Did you hear the one about the Potato, the Irish peasant and....ohh, better not!
Kean disagrees: Famine jokes are about as funny as Holocaust jokes i.e. not at all.
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"Not at all" is a mislead - people do find it funny.

YOU don't find it funny, fair play BUT don't assume to tell others what they can and can't laugh at because that is censorship and that is wrong dear Kean, very wrong.
 
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Relic
Just like them nazi jokes eh ed? Whatever.
Dude, I don't think it is in any way appropriate to compare The Famine to the Holocaust...

Anyway, no, Haggis is Scottish. Tasty though.
 
Edmund Blackadder said:
"Not at all" is a mislead - people do find it funny.

YOU don't find it funny, fair play BUT don't assume to tell others what they can and can't laugh at because that is censorship and that is wrong dear Kean, very wrong.
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Fair enough, then I ask you to have a little repect for those who don't find, what is widely regarded as genoicide, humourous.

SIT...do you want the recipe or the Whole Foods directions lol? How authentic do you want it to be? The mix will definitely be cheaper.
 
By absolutely no stretch of the definition is a famine the same as a genocide.

It's only considered a "genocide" when it conveniently suits the political ends of the speaker to have another crime to fling at the British.

Bitter about it for two hundred years...
 
Kean
Kean
You have no idea where my political allegiences lie. But I am not going to argue over who is right and who is wrong. Lets let this thread get back to it's original purpose.
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Edmund Blackadder
I absolutely agree with you!
Doesn't have to be absolutely authentic. I don't think anyone here will know the difference, I know I won't, LOL! I'll trek to the Whole Foods this weekend and pick up the mix. Wouldn't mind the recipe either, tho, I could make it for the fam sometime! For THIS instance, tho, I'm going with whatever's easier....not going to put myself out for my coworkers, they can do with the less authentic mix, LOL! Thanks, Kean! 😉

That apple tart sounds pretty tasty, too!
 
StuckinTraffic said:
Doesn't have to be absolutely authentic. I don't think anyone here will know the difference, I know I won't, LOL! I'll trek to the Whole Foods this weekend and pick up the mix. Wouldn't mind the recipe either, tho, I could make it for the fam sometime! For THIS instance, tho, I'm going with whatever's easier....not going to put myself out for my coworkers, they can do with the less authentic mix, LOL! Thanks, Kean! 😉

That apple tart sounds pretty tasty, too!
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Ok at Whole Foods you will be looking for Odlums Farmhouse Brown Quick Bread Mix. If you can't get it there Stop and Shop should have it.

Odlums Quick Breads

The nicest way to eat it is with Kerry Gold butter which can also be found in Whole Foods and a cup of tea! Seriously yummy🙂
 
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Thanks! ;)
Kean said:
Fair enough, then I ask you to have a little repect for those who don't find, what is wildly regarded as genoicide, humourous.
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Though I suspect you meant 'widely' I think you are closer to the mark with your actual statement.

I WILL refrain from the comments out of respect for you BUT not because of the subject matter because I absolutely disagree, even more so being you seem to be the only one voicing the comments as an issue, when there have been people on the boards who have 'laughed' at them.
 
Kean
Kean
I will be the first to admit that this topic hits a nerve with me that's why I reacted to the way I did. I know you don't agree but I have been researching this matter for a long time and it hits close to home, I can't help that. But thank you for
Here's a mildly interesting little factoid concerning Irish food, I think.

For a long while corned beef and cabbage was thought of as a traditional Irish food in America. It wasn't. Not really. Beef was too expensive in Ireland to be brought over as a dish of the Irish poor who originally emigrated to America.

They were however into salt pork, or bacon. I think the original Irish stew was cabbage, leeks, and a bacon joint. In America corned beef was cheap. It replaced bacon in the Irish peasant cooking of the immigrants. This is why you can, or at least one time, could, find corned beef and cabbage on the menu in the Irish restaurants of America.
 
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karma just cuz you're.....you! ;)
StuckinTraffic said:
Interesting! I think I'd rather have the bacon, anyway. Never been a fan of corned beef.
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The corned beef is actually nicer (I think) with the cabbage and potatoes than the bacon. The secret is to boil the cabbage in the waters used to boil the corned beef or bacon (if you are using bacon you should throw off the water at least once...cuz it can be too salty). The flavour improves ten fold. Plus if you use real butter with the spuds and then a tiny bit of cabbage water over them...taste sensation!

I'm hungry now! lol
 
I think I'm going to go ahead and make the cabbage AND the bread, cuz now I'm hungry, too!

My mom always cooked cabbage with bacon, and she'd change the water once or twice. Maybe that's why I'm not a fan of corned beef, it's a different flavor to me, altho my grandma used to fix corned beef all the time. I don't know....just never liked it. It's been years since I had any tho, so maybe I'll give it another try! We need a cooking class, LOL!

And there is NO substitute for REAL butter. Not at all!
 
StuckinTraffic said:
I think I'm going to go ahead and make the cabbage AND the bread, cuz now I'm hungry, too!

My mom always cooked cabbage with bacon, and she'd change the water once or twice. Maybe that's why I'm not a fan of corned beef, it's a different flavor to me, altho my grandma used to fix corned beef all the time. I don't know....just never liked it. It's been years since I had any tho, so maybe I'll give it another try! We need a cooking class, LOL!

And there is NO substitute for REAL butter. Not at all!
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LMAO...we have the BB Recipe Book! I should really add some stuff to that!
 
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You really should!
Faith said:
Black pudding is Irish?
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They serve it with Irish breakfast so...I guess so...lol

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Kean said:
LMAO...we have the BB Recipe Book! I should really add some stuff to that!
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Could you please add directions for potato bread? I tried to make it once from a recipe on the internet, and it was the biggest disaster ever made in the kitchen.
 
Buffy Summers said:
They serve it with Irish breakfast so...I guess so...lol

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Could you please add directions for potato bread? I tried to make it once from a recipe on the internet, and it was the biggest disaster ever made in the kitchen.
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Let me see if I can get a good traditional recipe from my Nana or one of my aunts maybe...potato bread ain't that popular anymore.
 
nerd4hire said:
Here's a mildly interesting little factoid concerning Irish food, I think.

For a long while corned beef and cabbage was thought of as a traditional Irish food in America. It wasn't. Not really. Beef was too expensive in Ireland to be brought over as a dish of the Irish poor who originally emigrated to America.

They were however into salt pork, or bacon. I think the original Irish stew was cabbage, leeks, and a bacon joint. In America corned beef was cheap. It replaced bacon in the Irish peasant cooking of the immigrants. This is why you can, or at least one time, could, find corned beef and cabbage on the menu in the Irish restaurants of America.
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Utter rubbish! My grandmother made Irish stew with lamb or mutton. Sometimes I believe Beef was used. By no stretch of the imagination was Pork or bacon or corned beef ever used in an Irish stew.
 
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