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“Going Green” is a popular phrase today! In essence, most everyone knows that it refers to employing activities around the home that can help improve our environment. Many people are being more conscientious about not wasting tap water and turning off lights whenever possible. By turning down the furnace temperature at night during winter months and raising the furnace air conditioning temperature during summer months it can be another great contributor toward improving our environment. If everyone would give a higher priority to the nations “Going Green” efforts we would make a big difference toward protecting our nation’s environment for today and for future generations! However, the term “Going Green” has a totally different meaning around my house. My Irish Colleen wishes everyday was St Patrick’s Day. On March 17th every year I get a giant taste of the Irish culture. She says that St Patrick’s Day would not be the same to her without all things being “Green”. She wears green clothing, decorates with green and she prepares a totally green menu. She would surely be
lost without her bottle of green food coloring on that day, which gives her an unintended green tongue. My “Green Lassie” says, it’s a special time for young and old alike, to wear the green and put on a smile while you enjoy celebrating the occasion of Irish customs. Now how can I put on a smile...when my “Shamrock Queen” goes utterly crazy celebrating the day as she colors my world green? She always opens the day with “Top of the Mornin” Dear ... Breakfast is ready”. Oh sure ... now would you smile if you woke up to green eggs and green pancakes smothered with green butter and mint jelly? Ugh, what a sight. And that is how my day started last year and ... it never got any better. Shortly thereafter, I was informed that her sister-inlaw and her brother were going to spend the day with us and that she was bringing many of her favorite dishes. Spending the day with those two, is like having two “Mother-in-laws for the day and to bring her home cooking to our table made even our dog growl and turn up his nose! But the Best or Worst based upon your heritage ... was yet to come. Her sister-in-law’s din-
ner contribution was green pasta, served with green pesto sauce, nearly raw chicken breast with green gravy and green mashed potatoes. All of those items luke warm. Of course my “Irish Chef” had to top those “gourmet delights” with her own Gastronomic Extravaganza. Split pea soup, of course, everybody’s favorite (gulp), green hot cross buns slathered with green cheese, a hot vegetable of creamed spinach, a veggie plate of celery, brocalli, cold green beans all layered upon bib lettuce (which should have been referred to as bitter lettuce. The choice of deserts included green mint sherbet or Slime Jello pudding, which she called Leprechaun desert. Thank goodness for the “Green Chardonnay” I was able to wash down all of those questionable delicacies. After a four glass wine binge, eating the dinner was becoming enjoyable??? Well, at most St. Patrick’s Day celebrations you will hear “Erin Go Braugh” a very common Irish term bantered about. It means “Ireland Forever”. But at my house it means ... It will be only three hundred sixtyfive days until I have to turn green all over again!
“Redefine How You Dine” - March 27 to April 1, 2011 Pasadena Restaurant Week Kicks Off Next Week Pasadena’s restaurant community opens its doors for the first Pasadena Restaurant Week which takes place from Sunday, March 27 through Friday, April 1, 2011. The public is invited to visit many of Pasadena’s finest, and most unique, dining establishments for special menus and more. A complete list of restaurants can be found at www.pasadenarestaurantweek.com.
Pasadena Restaurant Week is a citywide event featuring the cuisine of many of Pasadena’s top dining establishments. Participating restaurants will offer at least three fixed price dinner and/ or lunch menu items for visitors. Dinners will be three-course meals while lunches will be two course meals. Depending on the venue and menu offered, meals will be priced at $23,
$34 or $45 for dinner or $15, $20 or $25 for lunch. (Some prices may vary for lunch and dinner, depending on the venue. Alcoholic beverages, gratuity and tax are not included in the price unless specified by the individual restaurants.) Pasadena Restaurant Week was conceived to reintroduce Pasadena as a
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The VFW Hall at 825 South Magnolia in Monrovia will be hosting a special party for St Paddy’s Day on March 17, 2011. For an $8 donation you’ll get a traditional Irish St. Pat-
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BY WALLY HAGE
St Patrick’s Day Dinner at VFW Monrovia