I'm making momofuku's confetti cake for my birthday ! :)

I kick-started the weekend this morning by making two batches of homemade nut butter for my pantry: maple-cinnamon almond butter (via edible perspective) and my first-ever self-made recipe, rosemary-honey cashew butter! it was a great success and totally luxurious tasting. if you like nut butters you should definitely give it a try! http://chocolateandchard.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/rosemary-honey-cashew-butter.html

leftovers from this week all used in saturday brunch! twice baked potato hash (with vegan sausage and cheese) with a sunny side egg and scallions on top. everything is good with an egg on top!

Major cooking is for Sunday dinner. Having some family over and plan to make butternut squash soup, brushcetta with mushrooms, and a lemon-saffron orzo with shrimp. TGIF!!

St. Patrick's Day dinner. (Well, one day early.) I go classic: corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, carrots (all in the slow cooker), homemade soda bread, served with lots of mustard. And of course beer.

I decided to go all-American for dessert (it is an Irish-American holiday) and have s'mores. All the yum, twice the fun, hardly any dishes to wash!

And the best part is the corned beef hash & eggs I'll have for Sunday night's dinner!

Pomegranate brisket from Fine cooking in the slow cooker. Yum. Flour's white cake made rainbow to celebrate my son's performance in Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.

A loaf of Soda Bread tomorrow, that's about it. Cooked like crazy this week, tons of leftovers, so we need to eat our way to a clean fridge. Leftover Risotto Primavera, Chicken Tikka Masala and Orange Chicken with Pork Fried Rice.

Ditto to Leapkate's reply... we're celebrating St Patty's Day here, too. I'm most excited for the leftovers - corned beef hash, sure, but also reuben sandwiches with homemade russian dressing. yum yum.

Tonight, I made a winter vegetable cobbler (mushrooms, potato, carrot, and caramelized onion in mushroom-sherry gravy topped with whole-wheat biscuit dough), sautéed spinach, and avocado-cucumber salad with orange-sesame dressing.

Tomorrow, maybe balsamic-roasted tofu (because while I was rattling around trying to figure out what to make tonight, I opened and drained a block of tofu), roasted potatoes and carrots, and probably broccoli --- or that avocado-cuc salad again. Dang, it was good.

Aaaand because I was craving something sweet, I just threw together two little blueberry cobblers with the leftover biscuit dough, topped with sugar to sweeten it up. Mmm.

We're having friends over for dinner so I've had BBQ sauce brisket in the slow cooker overnight which I've just shredded. We're serving that with buns, homemade slaw, bacon potato salad (not fancy but tasty) and some guacamole and salsa with nachos.

In the past I've gone all out making Irish dishes for St Pat's, but frankly, no one in the family really likes it. I don't really like it. So, I've got the bag of potatoes, but instead of a batch of colcannon, they will become Spanish tortilla for lunch. I plan to make a lazy version of soda bread--a variation on the buttermilk quick bread recipe that was posted here about a year ago. Risi bisi for spring (hey, peas are green).

English rhubarb just turned up in the greengrocer! So some kinda sweet rhubarb thing, maybe whole wheat muffins since I have way too much whole wheat flour. Not sure how that's gonna work out!

I was planning to make big mushroom & potato pancake tonight but I have broccoli in the fridge and really like the idea of roasting it and serving it over white beans, so I might do that instead. Or I might make the rosti and a raw broccoli salad for tomorrow.

My roommate's also having some people over later, one of them doesn't eat dairy, and my fridge is full of potatoes and onions. Any ideas for snacky things I could make with those? I'm willing to buy additional vegetarian ingredients.

Corned beef & cabbage along with the first authentic soda bread I've attempted since I was a tween in the kitchen with g-ma. We'll see how that goes. Even if the bread is a fail, the memories will be worth the effort.

I made Lemon Chess Pie (my favorite southern pie) to celebrate Pi Day.

http://atexasbelle.blogspot.com/2013/03/lemon-chess-pie.html

I'm also making a loaf of Irish Soda Bread for St Patrick's Day!

This weekend is potato/leek soup with some homemade bread, cheese and fruit; and to celebrate St Patrick's day reuben sandwiches, guinness and potato salad.

Classic corned beef and cabbage, my grandmother's soda bread, Irish coffee,,,

Bangers and Mash with an Onion-Stout Gravy tonight, Corned Beef and Cabbage with Herbed Baby Root Veggies tomorrow night.

A chicken vegetable soup has been evolving in my kitchen over the last couple days.

Irish Soda Bread yesterday, and Colcannon (with green cabbage and scallions) tomorrow!

Beef stew with Guinness for dinner tomorrow. Possibly a chocolate stout bundt cake I saw on another site with the rest of the Guinness.

Everything sounds so great! I am making a jambalaya tonight with maple chipotle chicken sausages and homemade rosemary-cheese biscuits. Tomorrow, I am making this : http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-chickpea-casserole-with-137473

I had been craving French onion soup for the past two weeks, so I made a big pot of it last night. Even with having a couple of friends over, I have enough for leftovers -- for a few days!

Ditto St Pat's corned beef with cabbage, potatoes & carrots - James Beard's recipe is an old favorite: cook the veggies separately to make them shine. And the bonus of corned beef sandwhiches and if any is left over after that hash. And I, too, am making my first attempt at soda bread a la Smitten Kitchen.

Vegie pizza for the kids (they love spinach!) With a spaggehti with pesto. Italian style baby!