St Patricks Day

Three words: chocolate Guinness cake.

They have a buttery surprise inside.

Just add Irish butter.

The most decadent way to use up mashed potatoes.

They're great for St. Patrick's Day, but you're gonna want to make these all year long.

Name a better way to use your favorite cereal. I'll wait!

Irish potato candies may look like adorable little potatoes, but they're actually so much sweeter.

This year, order takeout and make this almost-instant treat.

Enjoy it with a thick slab of Irish soda bread slathered with butter, and a pint of Guinness.

Sweet and buzzy.

From shamrock shakes to a dark chocolate Guinness cake.

Our ultimate list to fuel your cooking and eating all month long.

If there's one thing that makes fudge brownies even better, it's mint buttercream and ganache.

I have cooked cabbage in many different ways. I’ve chopped, shredded, steamed, boiled, and stir-fried it, but until relatively recently, I had never roasted it. But once I tried I couldn’t believe I waited so long! Roasted cabbage wedges are one of the easiest, most delicious ways to eat a hunk of vegetables for dinner, and the bacon just helps it along.

There are few pairings quite as complementary as chocolate and mint, making it the basis for famous drinks, shakes, and, perhaps most gloriously, this delectable and delightfully retro grasshopper pie. What makes a grasshopper a grasshopper? Mint and chocolate liqueurs are folded into an airy, creamy mousse filling and set in a chocolate cookie crust.

We'll never cook it any other way.

From boozy favorites to family-friendly beverages, these will leave you green with envy.

Listen, I understand your desire to drink green beer on Saint Patrick’s Day — it’s novel and fun, and more importantly it’s an excellent excuse to drink more beer! I won’t judge you. But before you go out to some bar with all your friends, you should make something that will stick to your stomach and help you get through the night without getting sloppy.

Leprechaun lemonade is a sweet mixture of lemonade flavored with blue raspberry drink mix. It’s also how this electric green drink gets its color. This super-quick treat is a fun way to celebrate St. Paddy’s day with kids (or adults who want to hold off on the alcohol). Dress up the glass with colorful straws and a few green ice cubes and you’ll be feeling lucky without a green beer hangover. Leprechaun lemonade starts with your favorite lemonade.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! After you eat your corned beef, colcannon, and Irish soda bread, you’ll need a festive treat to end the night on a sweet note. And while there are plenty of awesome green-colored desserts out there, I’ve got my eye on these Irish coffee brownies. The major appeal of these brownies is that they’re mixed completely in one bowl.

Shamrock Shakes are seasonal milkshakes made with vanilla ice cream and flavored with mint and given a hint of leafy green color. These festive drinks are only available from late February to mid-March from their famous drive-thru inventor, but you can make these milkshakes all year long and turn them into a refreshing ice pop for enjoying any time of year (or hey, just St. Paddy’s day).

If you reserve puppy chow (or chocolate Chex mix, or whatever your family might call it) for major holidays only, here’s the best reason I can think of to make it for St. Patty’s Day too: The classic pairing of chocolate and mint makes puppy chow actually refreshing! Follow a no-fuss formula for puppy chow, using mint-chocolate baking chips in place of the chocolate and peanut butter (or Nutella) and you have a fun and festive snack.

Beer- and chocolate-lovers — this one is for you!

A vibrant matcha-dusted popcorn treat ready for St. Paddy's Day.

When it comes to holiday celebrations, St. Patrick’s Day holds an array of delicious possibilities. It might not be traditionally Irish, but we’re just as excited to don something green and whip up a Shamrock Shake as we are to load our plates with corned beef and cabbage. From Irish soda bread and colcannon, to a Guinness-spiked chocolate cake and festive drinks, these are the essential recipes for a memorable St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

Lucky Charms lovers, rejoice in this cereal-meets-snack bar mash-up perfect for St. Paddy's Day

Make that browned butter, please!

St. Patrick’s Day is a day for meat and potatoes if there ever was one. The traditional foods — corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, anything green — are some of our favorite comfort food dishes. And of course you can’t forget about the drinks! From a boozy shamrock shake to Guinness everything, it’s a day to eat, drink, and make merry. This delicious cabbage dish is a far cry from the wilted cabbage you’re used to seeing alongside corned beef.

When we think about food on St. Patrick’s Day, we automatically think of colcannon or corned beef and cabbage (aka dinner). But what if you want to kick things off in the morning with a fun, celebratory breakfast? That’s what this cereal milk chia pudding is here for. This is the kind of breakfast you need to assemble the night before — so prepare accordingly.

Shamrock Shakes are back! And yeah, that’s exciting news and all, but you can’t ignore the fact that you have to actually leave your house to get one. First-world problem, I know, but sometimes I just don’t want to put on my normal functioning adult disguise (i.e., something besides pajama pants) and drive all the way to McDonald’s to indulge my sweet tooth.

St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated with all things green, including beer and cocktails. This cocktail however, skips the green food coloring and celebrates with the most recognized Irish stout in the world: Guinness. What better mate to pair it with than champagne? I mean, we’re celebrating after all! The Black Velvet cocktail is all about the pour. First you pour your bubbly into the glass. Then slowly pour your Guinness on top.

Just add butter.

How many Irish ingredients can you mix into a recipe in the spirit of Saint Patrick’s day without seeming totally absurd? I may have crossed the line with this recipe for Cheddar and Chive Guinness Bread, but the good news is, it’s not green and you don’t need anything particularly Irish to make it work. Beer bread is one of the simplest quick breads to make. If you wanted to be really rogue you could dump every single ingredient into the loaf pan itself, mix, bake and eat.

Red flannel hash was an invention of the first New England colonists, but it certainly has roots in Old World cookery. It’s essentially corned beef hash, minus the corned beef and plus a few beets. If you’re looking for something a little different to serve up this St. Patrick’s Day, look no further! The quantity of ingredients in this dish aren’t terribly important. If you love onions, add another one in.

There’s a new drink combo that’s been springing up on bar menus across the country: The Pickleback. Yes, that’s right – a shot of whiskey accompanied by a “back” of pickle juice. This week, with side-by-side measures of skepticism and curiosity, I gave this unlikely pairing a shot.A Little BackgroundOver the past few months, the Pickleback’s generated a lot of Internet buzz.

It almost seems wrong pitting one type of recipe against another, but we realize that individual preferences can be quite strong when it comes to Irish soda bread. Did you grow up on the sweet Irish-American version? Are you a purist who sticks with flour, salt, baking soda and buttermilk? Or do you like to experiment with a few modern twists?Last year, Susie shared her mother’s recipe for a sweet soda bread filled with golden raisins and caraway seeds, dusted with sugar.

As a person of Irish heritage, I always feel a little treacherous admitting this, but honestly I don’t really like to drink Guinness. Still, once a year I do consume a bit of Guinness to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day — not in a pint glass, but in Nigella Lawson’s dark, moist Chocolate Guinness Cake. This cake couldn’t be easier to make—it’s a single layer with a crown of fluffy frosting, and you toss it all together on the stove top.

This is a last-minute St. Patrick’s Day recipe, but luckily it’s a fairly quick one. File this one under Un-Meat – all the rich, hearty goodness of Guinness stew without the beef. This recipe took a bit of tweaking to get the seasonings right, but I think a small amount of sugar is the key to round out the bitterness of the Guinness. And as with most stews, it’s even better the next day.

When I was little, my mother had a tea towel with a map of Ireland on it, and the map was crammed with family names so you could find which county your ancestors came from. For St. Patrick’s Day she used to tuck that towel into a basket and fill it with wedges of Irish Soda Bread, but I never cared for the bread—I just liked the game of finding our ancestors.

During these brisk/balmy, lion/lamb days of March, the turn of season alternately calls for something light and fresh – and also with a hint of warmth. Mellower than Irish Coffee, and good for whatever ails you, the Irish Whiskey Skin is a bright and zesty pick for St. Patrick’s Day. You can spot a Whiskey Skin from across the room, thanks to its very distinctive garnish: a long, ribbon-like strip of lemon peel.

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, and we’ve decided to take it (and Meat/Un-Meat Month) as inspiration for A Project. We’ve always been interested in curing our own meat, and corned beef seems like the perfect place to start. In fact, we’ve talked about home-curing corned beef a lot, but this year we’re really doing it! There’s plenty of time between now and St. Patrick’s to cure your own corned beef. Would you like to follow along with us?

Last week I showed you some baby cabbages I bought at the Hollywood Farmers’ Market in my post about dropping in on other cities’ farmers markets. These little fist-sized gems called out to me so I bought an armful without knowing how I’d cook them. I didn’t want to torture them too much, but wanted a warm, comforting dish to go with some grilled pork chops on a rainy night.I started by cutting them in half.

Confession: We had a foodie crush on David Lebovitz long before we saw the tour of his quirky Paris kitchen last week. We’ve been loving his Guinness-Milk Chocolate Ice Cream for some time now.The recipe comes from Lebovitz’s book The Perfect Scoop, and, like the Guinness Milkshakes from last week, would be a natural for St. Patrick’s Day. But we love it as a deeper, more complicated winter alternative to all the crisp vanillas and frosty fruit flavors of summer.