Having a St. Patrick's day celebration?! Let me help you prepare with some great recipes!
In preparation of the festivities, I have decided to start the baking a day or so early. So on tonight's agenda are pistachio cupcakes. This is super simple recipe that will put some green on your table!
You'll need:- A box of yellow cake mix
- 1 box of pistachio pudding mix
- 1/3 cup of oil
- 1 cup of water
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon of Almond extract
- Confectioner's sugar (for sprinkling)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line your cupcake pan with your cupcake liners. In mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients with the exception of the sugar. Beat with a hand mixer for about 2 minutes. Fill your cupcake liners 3/4 of the way up and place in the oven. Cook in the oven 15-20 minutes, until you can stick a toothpick in the middle and have it come out clean! Let cool. Sprinkle with sugar before serving!
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| It's greener in person. It isn't easy being greeeeeen. |
Tomorrow night, I will prep the Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner to go into the slow cooker. I don't really use too many measurements for the infamous 'boiled dinner'. So you'll have to bare with me.
I picked up:
- 5lb corned beef which includes a spice packet
- a small bag of white potatoes
- a small bag of onions
- a bag of baby carrots (because I'm too lazy to peel and cut the carrots) and
- a head of cabbage (roughly two pounds)
First things first, spray your crock pot with cooking spray.
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| Getting ready to slowww cook. |
Trim the fat off the corn beef. This is by far the worst part. You know I hate trimming the fat off. Cut the potatoes in quarters, and line the bottom of the crock pot. Then slice a couple of medium sized onions and sprinkle over the potatoes like cheese on a pizza! Then, add as many carrots as your heart desires. Rest the corn beef on top of the vegetables, add 1.5 cups of water, and the spice packet. Cook 8 hours on low.
Cut the cabbage into quarters. Add the cabbage after the 8 hours of cooking, and cook another hour on low. I love making this dish every St Patty's Day! Everything will come out so juicy and tender.
Lastly, I will be serving some sausage, peppers, and onions in a Guinness sauce. I based this recipe off my friend Erich's delicious looking sausage, pepper and onion dish he served on Superbowl Sunday.
Ingredients:
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- Your favorite sausage. I'm making about 2.5 lbs worth of beef kielbasa.
- 2 red bell peppers
- 2 medium onions
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- Salt and Pepper for tasting
- 1 bottle of Guinness
Slice the sausage, red peppers, and onions. In a pan, heat the olive oil and butter, and add the onions. Saute in the pan for about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, salt and pepper, saute for a minute, and add the red peppers, saute another 3 minutes or so. Take the peppers and onions and put them into the crock pot (not the same crock pot with the corned beef though, a separate crock pot!).
Add the slices sausage to the hot pan and saute for about 3 minutes just long enough to a get a nice sear on the outside. Then add the the sausage to the crock pot. Add the bottle o' Guinness and cook on low for 3 hours.
So you've got your appetizer, entree, and dessert...now all you're missing is your green beer! Make sure you pick up some green food coloring to get in the mood this St. Patty's day! I plan to start the day with a black and blueeee, which I could make a black and green!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day to those of you who are Irish, and for those of you who aren't but like to celebrate all the same! Slainte!
