What is Irish food???

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My family is Irish but I am still coming up with a bit of a blank. School is having a St. Pat's Day celebration. Mass in the morning, then concert in the afternoon followed by food, a sort of a tea party type thing - with 'traditional Irish food' But what is that apart from drink laced porter cake or toddy cake? My mothers baking was always more continental than traditional Irish.

Any suggestions?

Bacon and cabbage
Coddle

potato farls?

I just think of potatoes and stew!

soda bread or potato bread?

stew
boiled bacon and cabbage
there's something with pigs trotters but I can't remember what it is
colcannon (sp)
something called coddle I think

Irish Stew
Colannon
Boxty

Oh I've just got one... Soda bread with loads of butter and jam.

potatoes
irish stew?

maybe a beef stew with guiness would do it if you are feeding them properly

if it just tea make cupcakes with clover decorations with icing

or just ice them in green

irish smoked salmon on soda bread is DELICIOUS

wheaten bread or soda farls

Baking is what I am after, or cold food.

Tayto crisps
Kimberleys and Mikados
Brack

and, in my experience, turkey and ham followed by sherry trifle :o

Mmmm, turkey and ham

Ah, cold? Irish soda bread and salmon/prawns (bloody gorgeous)

Oxford Lunch (fruit cake)

irish coffee

Soda bread, scones, spotted dog (white soda bread with currants in). Also apple cake or tart, v traditional. Rhubarb tart too.

Barm brack definitely.

Mmmm...I'm getting hungry!

Soda bread is delicious, especially with butter and jam.

You can buy tinned Irish stew if you haven't got time to cook.

I would send in a selection of soda bread, Irish cheddar, cooked bacon, Tayto crisps, Club Orange to drink.

Rock shandy, red lemonade, Chef sauce....

Galtee cheese

You see, there is a bit of theme going on here, bread and butter and fruit cake. My mother and her sisters would relish this, washed down with cups and cups of tea.

Whilst smoked salmon and Dublin Bay prawns would be lovely we are not related to Powerscourt.

Spread white or black pudding on your soda bread then :)

Me the pauper that is!

i'd go for crab sandwiches (fresh soda bread) and guinness (for adults), followed by apple cake. i have an apple cake recipe which was traditionally cooked in a pot on the fire, but you can do it in an oven - it's easy and delicious: this one by darina allen is roughly the same

Do you know what I love? Spice burgers. I could really go for a spice burger now.