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Since we are all Irish on St. Patrick's Day.

So I made a typical NY-ish Irish dinner, which you are not going to find in Ireland: Corned beef, potatoes, cabbage, and a few carats :-) .

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On St. Patrick's Day you are supposed to find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Instead I found in the pot in my kitchen, carats!

dcarch :-)

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chisue
last year
Love those 'carats'. Very clever!
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plllog
last year
Love the shamrocks! Appetizing looking plate, too. ;)
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CA Kate z9
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Once upon a once we were in Ireland on St Patty's Day... and they did nothing. ! They acutally found our American fuss a bit amusing. (We did not have Corned Beef and Cabbage for any meal.)

That was a very fancy meal you served. It was a lot of work (especially those Carats and Shamrocks,) and I bet it tasted delicious.
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Lars
last year
The carrots could have been sliced into gold coins.

At first, I thought the orange was out of place, since it represents their enemies.

I've never had an Irish meal, that I know of, although I am a tiny bit Irish, but then I am also a tiny bit Scots-Irish, which would be the enemies of the Irish.
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chloebud
last year
Love it!!! 🍀💚🍀
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party_music50
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Cute!
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nickel_kg
last year
Clever and it looks tasty, too!
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plllog
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Kate, what I've read is that the Irish-Americans got corned beef from Jewish-American delis. It makes sense about the lack of fuss in Ireland itself. They don't have to celebrate Irish heritage to feel Irish. Like Cinco de Mayo, long before it was a drinking holiday sponsored by big business, was celebrated in California as a cultural day since the battle of Puebla happened, even though it was a dozen years after statehood.
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Lars
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People in Mexico (and many Mexican-Americans) celebrate 16 de Septiembre (equivalent to our 4th of July) instead of Cinco de Mayo.

The Irish do celebrate St Patrick's Day in Ireland, and it is one of their biggest holidays. However, like Mexico, Easter is huge, and Semana Santa is the biggest holiday in Mexico for travel, and also the worst time to travel there.
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annie1992
last year
Oh, I like the clovers made with the peppers, although we all know that Shamrocks actually only have three leaves. Four leaf clovers are luckier, though, and I really like the carrot carats.

Corned beef is definitely not Irish, boiled bacon would be more authentic, I think, but not nearly as good.

Annie
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rob333 (zone 7b)
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Celebrating people (in this case the Irish), especially in the beautiful way you have!, can't be wrong.

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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Splendid platter!

And I just watched this video from Weird History the other day - learned about the corned beef thing for St. Patrick's Day, and they also said the pope eventually gave a special dispensation or something so Irish Catholics could celebrate the holiday during Lent...
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bpath
last year
it’s a fabulous plate! the bell pepper clovers! the carats!

Similar to Americans and St Pat Day, I attended a Danish-American event where the Danish ambassador said that the Danish Americans are more Danish than the Danes!
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Rusty
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Dcarch, you've posted many MANY enticing, beautiful, delicious looking and originally plated meals over the years I have been a member here. But this one tops them all!

Rusty
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Islay Corbel
last year
Artistic and fabulous as always.

St Patrick's celebrations as you know them are American. This is an interesting explanation for Ireland. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Saint-Patricks-Day

St Patrick was English which I find very funny.

Lars, orange isn't the colour of the enemies of Ireland. In the 17th century, England (because of a lack of a home-grown heir and various other hideous complications) was unfortunate to get a Dutch king called WIlliam of Orange. He was a protestant and made a lot of laws in Ireland against the catholics, not allowing them to have good jobs etc. Hence the troubles between the catholics and the protestants. The protestants march with orange flags, which are like a red rag to a bull for the catholics. It's all been very sad, mad and complicated and lasted way too long.
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JoanM
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Green pepper four leaf clovers AND a history lesson! You gotta love the cooking forum folks.

That video was fun too.
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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
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The Irish tricolour is green, white and orange....... “The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between Orange and Green and I trust that beneath its folds the hands of Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood." https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/adc448-the-national-flag/
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Islay Corbel
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Flora it's tragic that so much blood has been shed since that declaration. There still isn't total peace in NI.

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