St Patrick's Day Recipe Ideas

If your looking for some fun and interesting St Patrick's Day recipe ideas, try a few of these recipes that I have collected over the years. These are great to try out at your St Patrick's Day party or at your children's class party at school. The first one is one that I remember having in pre-school. I personally can't stomach it yet, but I know alot of people who think it's delicious.

Green Eggs And Ham.This is a great recipe to try out on the kids! Ingredients include: 1/4 teaspoon Green Food color, 5 tablespoons water, sliced ham, 2 eggs, non stick fry pan, non stick cooking spray. Mix food coloring and water in a small bowl. Crack the eggs and separate the egg whites from the yolks. Mix two teaspoons of food color with the egg whites. Mix two teaspoons of food coloring with the yolks. Using a basting brush, glaze ham with the food coloring and fry in the frying pan until cooked throughout. Remove ham from pan and place on a plate. Pour eggwhite mixture into the frying pan and cook just until set, then pour the egg yolks on top of the egg whites. Pour an addition teaspoon of food coloring onto the eggs. Cover the frying pan and steam eggs until done. Place eggs on plate next to ham and enjoy. This recipe makes one serving.

St Patrick's Day Mean, Lean And Green breakfast. Toast a wheat bagel in the toaster. Take a tub of cream cheese out of the refrigerators. Let cream cheese soften a bit and empty into a small bowl. Drop four teaspoons of green food coloring onto the cream cheese and stir well. In a well sprayed non stick frying pan, brown some Irish Sausage (recipe to follow) until thoroughly cooked. Slice the sausage and chop into bite sized bits. Dump the bits into the cream cheese mixture, adding one more teaspoon of green food coloring. Mix together well. Spread onto toasted wheat bagel and enjoy.

Recipe for Irish Sausage:
(1½lb) Pork Shoulder, lean
(8oz) Pork Back
(1oz) breadcrumbs
1 tsp Salt
½ tsp Ground Allspice
½ tsp Pepper, finely ground
Ground Pepper
Dried Sage
Ground Ginger
Ground Mace
Ground Nutmeg
Ground Cloves
Cayenne Pepper

Mince the pork very finely. Mix the spices and bread crumbs together as you wish within the meat. Form into small round patties.

Baily's Chocolate Mousse. This is a recipe that I found online that my husband and I tried and it is to die for! This is the recipe from the website.

Ingredients chocolate graham cracker ready crust, 1 package Unflavored gelatin , 1 teaspoon Vanilla 3/4 cup Milk 3/4 cup Bailey's Irish Cream 6 ounces Semisweet chocolate chips 2 cups cool whip and if desired, chocolate-dipped strawberries, as a garnish.

In a small saucepan, pour unflavored gelatin into the milk. Let stand about 1 minute. Stir over low heat until gelatin is dissolved,This will be about 5 minutes. Add chocolate chips and continue cooking, stirring constantly until chocolate is melted. At this point, stir in vanilla. Remove from heat and stir occasionally, add Bailey's about five minutes after removal from heat. When the mixture forms mounds when dropped from spoon, fold in the cool whip Pour into the ready made crust. Spread more cool whip over the top of the mousse and garnish if desired, those chocolate strawberries. Chill at least 4 hours before serving. This is a great recipe that I highly recommend as a dessert.

Green Potato's And Sausage. Peel and boil a pound of small potatos. Drain potatos, adding one cup of milk, two teaspoons of butter, and salt and pepper. Mash together. Add four teaspoons of food coloring to the potatos and whip with a mixer until well blended. Serve with green ham or Irish sausage from the recipes above.