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[NoelSeven]

The mantel is decorated and green & white LED lights are strung across the top and down the sides of the fireplace.

I got a new slow cooker and am going to try the corned beef and veg in there this year, I've always done it in a huge pot on top of the stove before.

DD always makes Irish soda bread from scratch, and DH has an old record he likes to play by the Clancy Brothers.

I have a Moser green glass small jar (from the Vermont Country Store) that I overfilled with gold wrapped Rollo candy so it looks like a pot of gold.

We're ready!

[RainCityGirl]

I always have a corned beef luncheon with home made Irish soda bread, fresh cooked corned beef, green salad, and some special dessert. Oh, and Irish Ale. This year I am doing fresh strawberry pie. I plan on wearing my green sequined fedora for the occasion. I only have two Irish ancestors, but what the heck.

[ballyk]

We had corned beef made in the crock pot last night. Tomorrow taking the train from Ann Arbor to Chicago for four days and the St Patrick's day parade Saturday and a wee bit of cider.

[ShowMe]

This year, as in the past few years, I have had a "Q" St. Patrick's Day thread going in celebration of the Day... We have a lot of fun talking about what folks like, dislike, what they are purchasing, etc. If you care to join in, please do so. It is usually done here on Viewpoints. No, I don't sit up all night for the thread, but folks do post on it all hours of the night......

[dmod nj]

Hi Noel,

I make homemade Irish soda bread. It is a recipe very similar to my husband's nana's recipe. It is moist and dense, not dry and crumbly like some bread recipes. I add raisins, but not caraway seeds.

I make Guinness beef stew or beef Shepard's pie. My family does not like corned beef.

The house is decorated with shamrock sun catchers in the windows. I have green lights on the small evergreens in the front yard. I have Irish wreaths hanging on all the outside doors.

In the house, I use my husband's family's Irish linens, Donegal and other Irish china and some Waterford glasses /pieces they passed down.

We were engaged on St. Patrick's Day, 31 years ago.

[NoelSeven]

On 3/11/2015 RainCityGirl said:

I always have a corned beef luncheon with home made Irish soda bread, fresh cooked corned beef, green salad, and some special dessert. This year I am doing fresh strawberry pie.

The strawberry pie sounds delicious, very Spring

[NoelSeven]

On 3/11/2015 ballyk said: We had corned beef made in the crock pot last night. Tomorrow taking the train from Ann Arbor to Chicago for four days and the St Patrick's day parade Saturday and a wee bit of cider.

Chicago! Isn't that where they turn the river green for the day? You will have so much fun

Irish bars have always been a big thing in SF. I think I'll use Yelp to see if there's one nearby and we can all stop in.

[NoelSeven]

On 3/11/2015 ShowMe said:

This year, as in the past few years, I have had a "Q" St. Patrick's Day thread going in celebration of the Day... We have a lot of fun talking about what folks like, dislike, what they are purchasing, etc. If you care to join in, please do so. It is usually done here on Viewpoints. No, I don't sit up all night for the thread, but folks do post on it all hours of the night......

Thank you for the invitation, ShowMe, I will pop in!

My mother was mostly Irish, a little Cornish, also. I love St. Pat's Day!

[NoelSeven]

On 3/11/2015 dmod nj said:

Hi Noel,

I make homemade Irish soda bread. It is a recipe very similar to my husband's nana's recipe. It is moist and dense, not dry and crumbly like some bread recipes. I add raisins, but not caraway seeds.

I make Guinness beef stew or beef Shepard's pie. My family does not like corned beef.

The house is decorated with shamrock sun catchers in the windows. I have green lights on the small evergreens in the front yard. I have Irish wreaths hanging on all the outside doors.

In the house, I use my husband's family's Irish linens, Donegal and other Irish china and some Waterford glasses /pieces they passed down.

We were engaged on St. Patrick's Day, 31 years ago.

Hi Donna, it all sounds wonderful! You and I have the decorating gene, for sure, lol.

I have my mother's great-grandfather's blackthorn Irish shillelagh and some Belleek from QVC, not much more, at least that I can think of

Happy Engagement Day!

[ballyk]

On 3/11/2015 NoelSeven said:

On 3/11/2015 ballyk said: We had corned beef made in the crock pot last night. Tomorrow taking the train from Ann Arbor to Chicago for four days and the St Patrick's day parade Saturday and a wee bit of cider.

Chicago! Isn't that where they turn the river green for the day? You will have so much fun

Irish bars have always been a big thing in SF. I think I'll use Yelp to see if there's one nearby and we can all stop in.

It's the chicago river they dye green in the morning before the parade. Trying to get in an Irish pub is insane but we do it anyway. We've been going for the last 15 years and a lot of fun but the St Patrick's day parade we were at in Dublin was the best.