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March 2021
Recipes I think this year the perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day is by eating or drinking something sweet to help take the bitterness out of these days! Food stylist/photographer: Laura Kurella St. Patrick’s Day means many things to many people. In the secular world, it usually means parties where people wear and drink things dyed green. However, the day was actually established to honor a saint of a man who didn’t start out life that way and was originally named, “Maewyn.” Born in Wales in around 385 A.D., at age 16, Maewyn was sold into slavery, which caused him to turn from his pagan ways to God, whom
Sweet St. Patrick’s Day! he asked for help in his plight. Escaping slavery, Maewyn fled to a monastery where he changed his name to Patrick and spent the rest of his life turning other pagans toward God. Appointed the second bishop to Ireland, Patrick continued his mission for thirty years until passing on March 17, 461 – the date chosen to honor him – and, shamrocks don’t appear on this day just for decoration. They are present because St. Patrick used them to demonstrate how the Father, Son and Holy Spirit all exist as separate elements of the same Holy Trinity. While it is perfectly acceptable to wear and drink things green on this day, it would also be nice to remember the man that made this day special and perhaps tear a page from
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The Original Irish Coffee Cream: Rich as an Irish Brogue Coffee: Strong as a Friendly Hand Sugar: Sweet as the tongue of a Rogue Whiskey: Smooth as the Wit of the Land You are to heat a stemmed whiskey goblet. Pour in one jigger of Irish whiskey Add one spoon of brown sugar. Fill with strong black coffee to within one inch of the brim. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Top off with whipped cream, slightly aerated, by pouring it over the back of a spoon, so that it floats. Do not stir after adding the cream as the true flavor is obtained by drinking the hot coffee and Irish whiskey through the cream.
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his life and celebrate someone who made a positive difference in the lives of others – and serve up something Irish, if not green, especially an Irish coffee, which is said to be a recipe that originated in a Limerick airport during the cold and miserable winter of 1937. This airport was often visited by the likes of John F Kennedy, Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward G Robinson, Ernest Hemmingway and even Douglas Fairbanks Sr. One night, when bad weather had grounded several flights, and as a result, filling the airport with many a VIP, the cook decided to whip up something warm and “Irish” to impress his prestigious guests. Starting with freshly brewed coffee, kicked up with a splash of fine Irish whiskey, he topped off his warm and
flavorful blend with a crown of rich, and fluffy, freshly whipped cream! Guests were very impressed with its taste, prompting them to ask what it was. The cook politely replied, “What you have there is the finest coffee to ever cross the lips. Irish coffee it is!” While you can buy something that tries to replicate the taste, nothing beats homemade. Here now is a pleasing assortment of ways to make your St. Patrick’s Day feel a little sweeter. Enjoy!
1 (16 oz.) package Vanilla Coating ¾ cup Mint OREO cookies, crumbled into large pieces Green sprinkles Melt Vanilla coating in tray according to directions on package. Add ½ cup of the chopped Oreo cookies into the tray and stir to combine. Pour mixture into a 13 x 9-inch pan lined with wax paper. Use a spatula to smooth out evenly in pan. Sprinkle remaining ¼ cup crushed cookies and green sprinkles on top. Chill for about 10 minutes or until completely set. Once set, remove bark from pan and cut or break into pieces. Lucky Leprechaun Hats Keebler® Fudge Stripes™ Cookies Large Marshmallows Dark Chocolate Candy Melts Green Candy Melts Green Sprinkles or Green Cake Sparkles Melt dark chocolate candy in the microwave, in 30-second intervals on 50% power. Stir after each heating. Repeat until completely melted. Dip Fudge Stripe Cookies into chocolate, coating completely. Shake off any excess. Set on parchment paper, top side down, until candy coating is completely set. Using a toothpick, dip marshmallow into chocolate and coat almost entirely.
Shake off any excess. Set on parchment paper, until candy coating is completely set. Remove toothpick. Melt green candy just as you did the chocolate. Flip marshmallow upside down and insert new toothpick in top. Dip into green candy, just barely, to create a small band of green around the bottom. Coat green candy band with sprinkles or sparkles. Shake off excess. Place marshmallow in center of chocolate covered cookie. Carefully remove toothpick. Touch up the toothpick hole with a small dab of melted chocolate, if desired. Spoon some of the remaining melted green candy into a piping bag, Ziploc bag or squeeze bottle. On parchment paper, make three small dots of candy in the shape of a triangle. Each dot should be about the size of a chocolate chip. Using a toothpick, swirl the three dots together to form a shamrock shape. Swirl the bottom two dots together first, then the top dot. Pull toothpick straight down to form the stem. Before candy hardens, cover with sprinkles or crushed cake sparkles. Once shamrocks have set up, dust off excess sparkle. To finish the hat, attach a glittering shamrock with a small dab of melted green.
Food stylist/photographer: Laura Kurella
Flirty Leprechaun Fauxjito ¾ cup water ¾ cup granulated sugar 1-cup mint leaves 1-cup lime sherbet ½ cup lime juice 3 cups ginger ale Combine water & sugar in a glass bowl. Microwave approx. 3 minutes. Stir in mint & allow to stand approx. 5 minutes. Strain out mint from syrup & discard. Set syrup aside. In large pitcher - combine sherbet & lime juice & stir until sherbet starts to melt & combine with juice. Pour in ½ of your ginger ale & then all your mint infused syrup. Stir. Add in last of ginger ale - stir well. Chill for 2 hours before serving.