Recipes to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day Warm Spinach Dip Shamrock Salad Crockpot Irish Stew Corned Beef & Cabbage Chicken & Potato Skillet Green Mashed Potato Casserole Irish Potato Pie Bennigan´s Baked Potato Soup Cream of Asparagus Soup Split Pea with Ham Soup Chocolate Chip Scones Irish Soda Bread Cinnamon Swirl Potato Bread Blarney Stone Oat Bread Chocolate Mint Bars Bailey's Irish Cream Fudge Bailey's Irish Cream Cheesecake Marbled Mint Brownies Pistachio Pudding Dessert Frozen Mint Parfaits Irish Potato Candy Green Shamrock Shake - copycat recipe There's more St. Patrick's Day recipes around BellaOnline.... Make a Traditional Irish Trifle. Try this Glengarriff County Cork Stew recipe. Make a St. Patrick 's Day gift - Potato Soup Mix in a Jar. Have a cup of Irish Coffee. When it's time to get out of the kitchen, you can... Read a St. Patrick's Day book. Read about some very cute Canine Irish Americans! Relax with a St. Patrick's Day Prayer and Meditation. Make your own Celtic Jewelry. Create an Irish Crochet Shamrock Pot Mat. Read about Irish Culture at Bella Online. Visit Irish Historical Sites and Events in New England. Get the lyrics to "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." Learn the Secrets of the Leprechaun. If you have a new baby on the way, you can look for Irish Baby Names. Thinking about adding an Irish dog to your family? Here's Irish Dog Names.

Links to Authentic Irish Recipes Mulligatawny - Traditional Irish Soup Dublin Bay Prawn Bisque Steak and Guinness Pie Dubliner Cheese Tart Dublin Lawyer (lobster recipe) Dublin Coddle (bacon, sausage & potatoes) Colcannon (potatoes and leeks) Champ (potatoes) Boxty Irish Omelette Scones- Spotted Dog Oatcakes Barmbrack Bread Irish Brown Bread Irish Apple Cake Irish Chocolate Cake Zesty Pots (a Bailey's Irish Cream Dessert) Irish Creme Liquor Add green food coloring to cream cheese, sour cream, milk, milk shakes, pudding, cakes, frosting, cookies, and ice cream for St. Patrick's Day. You can even make your own green beer! ~~~The Shamrock~~~ To help explain The Doctrine of The Trinity, Three Persons - The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are One Divine God, St. Patrick plucked a shamrock from the ground to show three leaves on only one stem. Saint Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland. We celebrate St. Patrick's Day on the anniversary of his death, the 17th day of March, 460 AD. See the Saint Patrick: Behind the Shamrocks and Leprechauns

According to Irish tradition, those who kiss the Blarney Stone will be blessed with the gift of eloquence - aka "the gift of gab". The Blarney Stone is set in the wall of Blarney Castle, located in Blarney, a small village in southern Ireland. Visitors must climb over 100 stairs and wait in line to see the Blarney stone. To kiss the stone, they must lie on their backs, lean back and downward, while holding onto a pair of iron rails for support. This may sound like a lot of blarney, but the historic castle and legendary stone draws over 200,000 tourists a year!

Get the gift of gab without traveling to the Emerald Isle... without even leaving home - Kiss the Virtual Blarney Stone

Irish Blessings

Like the warmth of the sun, And the light of the day, May the luck of the Irish, Shine bright on your way. May your blessings outnumber The shamrocks that grow, And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go.

May your neighbors respect you, Troubles neglect you, The angels protect you, And Heaven accept you. May your troubles be less and your blessings be more And nothing but happiness come through your door.

For Your Irish Kitchen ...

The Country Cooking of Ireland This cookbook, by internationally acclaimed food and travel writer Colman Andrews brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland. It includes 250 recipes and more than 100 photographs of the pubs, the people, and the Irish countryside. It features stories of the food and people who make Ireland a wonderful place to eat, and is laced with snippets of Irish song, folklore, and poetry.

The Irish Pub Cookbook This cookbook features over Irish 70 pub classics plus pub photos, history, and folklore. Recipes include thick soups and stews, savory tarts and meaty pies, plus salads and desserts. There's Shepherd’s Pie, Fish and Chips, Seafood Chowder, and Whiskey Bread Pudding and contemporary specialties such as Bacon, Blue Cheese, and Courgette Soup; Salmon Cakes with Dill and Wine Sauce; Braised Lambshanks with Red Currants and White Chocolate Terrine.