I am not Irish. Not one little bit. My husband is Italian. And yet, come March 17, we break out the green.
A friend of mine dyes whatever milk is in the bottle green for St Patricks Day. The leprechauns do it. While I think it is an adorable idea, I know my children would balk at having green milk to pour on their cereal.
I found this substitute.
Leprechaun Shake
1c milk
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
2 ice cubes
3-4drops of mint extract
2 drops of green food coloring
Blend for 10 seconds or so.
You may need to double, triple, or quintuple to the fifth power this recipe. Because that recipe seems like enough for one small child.
The History Channel has a St Patrick’s Day website for you to enjoy with your children. It is a very comprehensive look at St Patrick’s Day. The true story, the legend, green beer, and other assorted recipes that are not corn beef and cabbage. Gag. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Family Fun had this recipe that was easy and fun.
It is made from canned breadstick dough and then sprinkled with colored sugar, my kind of easy. Though you could just make it with a regular bread recipe.
I did buy these tiny little treasure boxes and I had big plans of filling one for each child and having each of them go on their own individual treasure treasure hunts, but that just didn’t work out. Maybe St Patrick’s Day 2010 I’ll be more prepared.
But we did make green cupcakes, just regular cupcakes with a little green food coloring added, with vanilla frosting. Then I cut up some green spice drops and had the kids make shamrock shapes on the top.
And then we ate half of them. Saving the other half for tonight after dinner, once we crash from our sugar high.
Tomorrow we will give up our Irish heritage, at least until next March. And anxiously await the easter Bunny for our next candy fix.
Whew, less than a week until the next sugar fix!
Comment by Brigitte — March 18, 2008 @ 5:27 am
Down here we never have to worry about food for St. Paddy’s Day. They throw veggies from the floats at the parade. Nothing says love like cabbage.
Comment by Wendy — March 18, 2008 @ 11:12 am
Those pesky leprechauns have come and made mischief at our house for 2 years now…leaving green milk in the fridge, green water in the toilet (in the tank, as well as the bowl-darn them! lol) and green glitter through parts of the house. Last year they left a few gold, chocolate coins, tied a pair of each of our twin’s shoes together and scattered the rest of all our shoes down the hall. This year they relaced the twins’ shoelaces to go straight across. As soon as they saw that and had a giggle about it, they went right to work UNLACING them. (to my suprise!) I asked them why and they said they didn’t like it, they were going to lace them back, criss-cross, applesauce, like they are supose to be. *sigh* We had 4 peaceful St. Patrick’s Days before we got on the leprechauns’ “list”…next year, we’re setting a TRAP! hehehe
Comment by Gina... — March 26, 2008 @ 10:09 pm