If you know me in real life, you probably know that I love St. Patrick's Day.
{It's a "my house is decorated in green and shamrocks" kind of love.}
Since I don't stop at just decorating, these are three of my favorite St. Patrick's Day traditions. They involve items and ingredients you probably already have so you hopefully won't need a special trip to the store.
Visit from the Leprechauns
Just like missing cookies and carrots on Christmas Eve, let your kids wake up to evidence that the leprechauns stopped by in the night.
Remember, green food coloring is your friend on this day.
Add a few drops to your milk jug and let your kids discover it in the fridge. Or my personal favorite is changing the color in the toilet bowl.
{Yes, it's slightly disturbing to look at, but seriously, how fun will that first blurry-eyed bathroom visit be?!}
Green Eggs, Veggie-style
Serve up green eggs the healthy way with spinach and not green dye. Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious has a yummy green scrambled eggs recipe but if you don't have the cookbook, you can follow The Little Foodie's version.
Irish Soda Bread
My mom always make several loaves and lots of muffins of my grandma's Irish soda bread on St. Patrick's Day.
It's great for breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, dinner or midnight snack. Or all of them.
This is sweeter than most traditional recipes and doesn't include raisins {because why add something healthy if you've already eaten spinach eggs} but since my grandma was Irish, I think that makes this recipe totally authentic.
Grandma's Irish Soda Bread
3 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 tbsp butter, melted
1. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Mix wet ingredients in separate bowl. {I use my four-cup Pyrex measuring cup to cut down on dirty dishes.}
3. Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and stir until combined.
4. Bake in greased loaf pan for one hour at 375 degrees.
5. Attempt to not eat the entire loaf in one sitting before your husband comes home from work.
{It's a "my house is decorated in green and shamrocks" kind of love.}
Since I don't stop at just decorating, these are three of my favorite St. Patrick's Day traditions. They involve items and ingredients you probably already have so you hopefully won't need a special trip to the store.
Visit from the Leprechauns
Just like missing cookies and carrots on Christmas Eve, let your kids wake up to evidence that the leprechauns stopped by in the night.
Remember, green food coloring is your friend on this day.
Add a few drops to your milk jug and let your kids discover it in the fridge. Or my personal favorite is changing the color in the toilet bowl.
{Yes, it's slightly disturbing to look at, but seriously, how fun will that first blurry-eyed bathroom visit be?!}
Green Eggs, Veggie-style
Serve up green eggs the healthy way with spinach and not green dye. Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious has a yummy green scrambled eggs recipe but if you don't have the cookbook, you can follow The Little Foodie's version.
Irish Soda Bread
My mom always make several loaves and lots of muffins of my grandma's Irish soda bread on St. Patrick's Day.
It's great for breakfast, mid-morning snack, lunch, mid-afternoon snack, dinner or midnight snack. Or all of them.
This is sweeter than most traditional recipes and doesn't include raisins {because why add something healthy if you've already eaten spinach eggs} but since my grandma was Irish, I think that makes this recipe totally authentic.
Grandma's Irish Soda Bread
3 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
2 tbsp butter, melted
1. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Mix wet ingredients in separate bowl. {I use my four-cup Pyrex measuring cup to cut down on dirty dishes.}
3. Pour wet mixture into dry mixture and stir until combined.
4. Bake in greased loaf pan for one hour at 375 degrees.
5. Attempt to not eat the entire loaf in one sitting before your husband comes home from work.
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