Hey Ken, No St. Patrick's celebration or meal for me. I do cook corned beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots once a year, New Year's Day, to go with my black eye peas and cornbread! Some tradition, huh? Maybe I'll wear something green tomorrow if I think about it. Donnie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Jackson" <kjchowboy@bellsouth.net> To: <palmertree@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 12:49 AM Subject: [PTREE] St. Paddy's Day > Gang, > > Is anyone planning on celebrating their Irish heritage this year with any > traditional dishes or whatever? > > I am going to fix corned beef with savoy cabbage - steamed in a crockpot > with plenty of beer... (even though tradition says it's not a real Irish > dish - they say that thick sliced bacon and cabbage is the authentic > version); baked winter vegetables (parsnips, carrots, turnips, potatoes, > seasoned and sprinkled with olive oil); and Donegal Oatmeal Cream for > dessert. That is made with McHann's steel cut oats, whipped cream and > diluted fruit (like Polaners). I have been eating steel-cut oats for a > long > time, and if you've never had them, once you try them you will never go > back > to Quaker oats again... ha. > > I think I'd rather have this kind of heritage meal than the Scottish > haggis..... barf. > > Ken > > > > ------------------------------- > Visit the Palmertree Family History website at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~palmrtre/index.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALMERTREE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message