Lately I've been seeing food all around me. The cars vandalized by chopped vegetables, the men jumping out of bushes strapped to giant soup cans, the tasty looking dog-I mean... sheeps. I figure the universe is trying to tell me something. Is that message "Kate go eat some damn food?" No! It's "Go write a blog post about noms immediately!" So I did.
Here are some great Irish dishes that you should sample if and when you find yourself in the Emerald Isle, with links to recipes if you want to throw a stomach party.
Bangers and mash
Bacon and Cabbage
In Ireland, bacon means pig and rashers means bacon, which is actually Canadian bacon. Bacon is best served with cabbage sprinkled in bacon, which in all honesty just becomes a game of find the bacon (see 5:37 for the power of bacon).
Smoked salmon
Steak and Guinness pie
Sometimes you are in such a hurry that you just don't have time to sit down for a bowl of stew and a pint. That is why God invented the meat pie. Warm, flaky pastry oozing with beer steeped meat juice. Mmm.
Bangers and mashBecause bangers are more fun to say than sausages. This essential pub grub is a delicious complement to a trad sesh and a pint of Guinness after a day tripping around Dublin. Let the duet of crunchy and creamy make music in your mouth.
Fish & Chips
If you walk around Cork for long enough saying "I want fishes" repeatedly, a gang of tween hoodlums will pass you on the street with a live goldfish in tow. But this will hardly satisfy your craving for the crisp, golden fish and thick, toasty chips (Freedom Fries) which gleam in the fryers across the island. Serve with a side of mushy peas, which taste much better than they sound.
If you walk around Cork for long enough saying "I want fishes" repeatedly, a gang of tween hoodlums will pass you on the street with a live goldfish in tow. But this will hardly satisfy your craving for the crisp, golden fish and thick, toasty chips (Freedom Fries) which gleam in the fryers across the island. Serve with a side of mushy peas, which taste much better than they sound.
Bacon and CabbageIn Ireland, bacon means pig and rashers means bacon, which is actually Canadian bacon. Bacon is best served with cabbage sprinkled in bacon, which in all honesty just becomes a game of find the bacon (see 5:37 for the power of bacon).
Smoked salmon
One bite of this sea slipper and you will feel the ocean breeze whipping at your hair. It tastes like adventure. Serve with brow
n bread, lemon and capers.
What better way to start your day
than with meat, meat and a side of meat? Load up on rashers, sausages, fried eggs, fried tomatoes, and possibly a mushroom, and don't forget white pudding (pork fat oat sausage) and black pudding (congealed blood sausage). This is a borderline Epic Breakfast.
Beef in Guiness stew
There is only one thing
There is only one thing
more delicious than the combination of Guinness and stew and that is Guinness in stew. Wash it down with more Guinness.
Steak and Guinness pie
Sometimes you are in such a hurry that you just don't have time to sit down for a bowl of stew and a pint. That is why God invented the meat pie. Warm, flaky pastry oozing with beer steeped meat juice. Mmm.
Special notes: If you haven't already guessed, vegetarians are not allowed to enter the country. If you spend any period of time in Ireland, you are likely to grow fat. That being said, I give traditional Irish food two belly rolls up.
This post brought to you by Guinness.
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