I need recipes for St. Patrick's potluck!!?

Colcannon

¼lb. bacon

1lb. kale or cabbage, cooked

1lb. potatoes, cooked

1 onion, chopped

salt and pepper to taste

milk, if necessary

Fry bacon. Reserve 1/4 cup of bacon drippings. (Bacon will not be used.)

Mash the potatoes. Chop the kale or cabbage and add it to the potatoes. Mix well. Peel and chop the onion. Melt 1 Tbsp. of the drippings in a large, heavy frying pan and cook the onion in it. Remove fried onion and mix with the potato and cabbage. Season mixture to taste, and stir in a little milk if it is too stiff. Add the rest of the drippings to the hot pan. When drippings are very hot, turn the potato and cabbage mixture into the pan and spread it out. Fry until brown. Cut it into pieces, and continue frying until there are lots of crisp brown pieces.

Irish soda bread is sooooo yummy and easy to make! I would make that. Traditional Irish soda bread, to my taste, is kind of boring. I like the nontraditional ones that have a little sugar in them and caraway seeds, you can find tons of recipes on the internet! Or you can make an easy yogurt pie with a tub of Cool Whip, 2 containers of LIME yogurt and 1 pre-made graham cracker crust. Just fold the yogurt into the Cool Whip, tint it a darker green if you like, with green food coloring, put it into the crust and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. It's extremely, easy, cheap and tastes really good!

You could make a lime jello salad since that's green. Use 7-Up instead of the cold water - it adds a nice zip. Add in crushed pineapple (drained) and halved green grapes. It really does make a good jello salad.

Or make some Irish soda bread and take along a tub of butter for on it.

The Better Homes & Gardens website (bhg.com) has lots of St. Patty's recipes on it.

Maybe something you could make ahead in a crock pot and serve in the same. Swedish meatballs is always a hit. For an added twist you could add green dye to meatballs or maybe to the gravy on the side or noodles for fun. There are a number of dishes you could make in a crock pot. Stew, soup, pot roast, spaghetti and meatballs. Hope I helped.

My favorite recipe site will have some suggestions... www.food.com

Otherwise, I have a recipe, "Cheese 'n' Pasta in a Pot" that makes a LOT, but it is not necessarily an EASY nor cheap (3 different cheeses!). But it is always a crowd pleaser!

Email me for that recipe if you are interested.

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It can a vegetable when you buy it and a fruit when you eat it.

shred cabbage in a salad bowl with a cover, and add ranch dressing over the top, and crumble bacon over the top of that, for a tasty irish salad

colcannon - its potatoes & cabbage check out allrecipes for their st.patricks day page irish coffee cake stew with beef or lamb made with guiness

try a cabbage dish. boil some cabbage and potatoes and pickle meat.

well just, simple st patrick's dishes are: rainbow cupcakes

pot o' gold soup

toffee shortbread