Georgina Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Hello you lovely Irish people, please can you tell me what to suggest to my friend who is doing a meal in a retirement home with an Irish theme. I don't have a clue.Georgina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Do include Irish smoked salmon - gorgeous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes. Seriously, I have had meals in Ireland with potato salad for starters, boiled, mashed (wel, colcannon) and baked potatoes with the main course. Delicious.The Irish eat a lot of fish (salmon, cod and trout), or as an alternatve try Dublin coddle - boiled pork sausages and bacon with potatoes and onions, in gravy made from the liquid in which the sausages and bacon were boiled.FK's friend Mrs Gupta would no doubt make a nice potato curry in the making of which no small furry animals were harmed.Do make sure you serve Guinness with it. Guinness and Oysters is wonderful, typically Irish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgina Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 Thanks Pierre, do you know where the buy it? Apart from Ireland that is.Georgina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I love this traditional ham and cabbage recipe - it also has the advantage of being easy.http://www.recipezaar.com/9817Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 [quote user="Georgina"]Thanks Pierre, do you know where the buy it? Apart from Ireland that is.Georgina[/quote]I have seen it for sale, admitidly pre-sliced and packaged in Auchan. They do smoked Irish trout tooAll the above sound delicious. I had quite forgotten about Guiness and oysters - yum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I have always found a good choice of smoked salmon, from Scotland, Ireland and Norway, if memory serves me well, it is available in all the big supermarkets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgina Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 Thanks everyone, Salmon it is.Georgina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chessfou Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Well, there's spuds and then there's champ. I think the French would like champ*. The spring onions perhaps being more to the French taste than the kale/cabbage of Colcannon.*If you don't know it, it's rather like Aligot but with a faintly garlicky flavour (thanks to the spring onions). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toni Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Irish stew, guiness and beef casserole served with champ-see above- and for afters Baileys ice cream. There are also lots of nice recipes for salmon (smoked and plain), smoked trout etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgina Posted March 23, 2007 Author Share Posted March 23, 2007 Ooh, that sounds lovely. Baileys ice cream, where do you get that?Georgina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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