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 subsitute.
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.
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.
I searched online for a pretzel recipe that didn’t require letting the dough rise. I know some of you are afraid of the yeast and kneading.
Family Fun had this recipe that was easy and fun.
It is made from canned breadstick dough and then sprinkled with colored sugar. Though you could just make it with a regular bread dough recipe if you were so inclined.
What do kids love more than a treasure hunt! I will have them go on a hunt to find a little black pot filled with gold. Gold foil wrapped chocolates, which to kids are even better than real gold.
I did but 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 2012 I’ll be more prepared.
But we did make green cupcakes, just regualr cupcakes with a little green food coloring added, with vanilla frosting. The 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.
The basis of your first sentence describes us, too…not a bit Irish,is my husband and I have 3 Italian grandparents and one from Poland. Still…green we are on March 17! Our son looks forward to it, all year long.
Yes, on St. Patrick’s day, that naughty leprechaun/s come to our house, turn the milk green (as well as the water in the toilet, when they don’t flush!), re-lace the kids shoes (sometimes tying them together and/or tossing them around), sometimes leaving green dust, trick the kids with choc coins instead of real gold (but every few years, leaves a “gold nugget”), and makes general mischief and mayhem…leaving minor destruction behind (the big surprise this year was a coat tossed over the bathroom door).
Comment by Anonymous — April 4, 2009 @ 8:16 am