Our St. Patrick's Day weekend....

We did wear green yesterday! Yep. While wearing said green attire, we braved Walmart(I hate shopping)and Kevin and Jason got the oil changed in the Nissan. I was smart and put dinner in the crockpot beFORE we left for our morning of errands/shopping. Traditional Irish Lamb Stew. YUM. Oh my it was good. I was a bit skeptical of it as I'm used to regular beef stew with the beef stew seasoning packets you get from the store! This had no such seasoning packet.....

We went for a walk after lunch but it was cool, not cold, and super windy so it really wasn't very pleasant, but hey, at least we went out and got some excercise!

I made Irish Colcannon to go with the stew and the dinner all turned out amazing!! I'll post the recipes on here. So good.

Friday night we finally watched the Tin Tin movie and it was really, really good. We all enjoyed it. :)

This morning Jason woke up sick. Tummy ache, queasy and fever. :( With the morning free, I decided to make a tart which I'd found the recipe for. Aspargus-prosciuto and fintina cheese on puff pasty. YUM!!! Poor baby is still laying around on the couch. Not feeling well at all. We're even still in our jammies.

Hope everyone enjoyed their St. Patrick's Day weekend. :)

Traditional Irish Lamb Stew:

Put 1 1/2 lbs chopped in bite size pieces, lamb(I had to end up using 3 shoulder chops)and 2lbs little carrots and 1 chopped/large chop, onion in your crockpot. Add about a half cup chopped cabbage, a cup of beef stock, 1/2 to 1 cup dark lager, and plenty of salt and pepper. Cook on low for 10 hours. About half hour before it's done, check to see how soupy it is. If it's a bit too much liquid, add some corn starch to cold water, mix well and mix in the stew for the last half hour.

Irish Colcannon:

Peel and chop 2lbs of russet potatoes and boil with 1 head of finely chopped green caggabe until tender. Add plenty of salt while it's boiling. Drain well and put in food processer with 1/4 cup of butter, pepper, and a 1/2 cup of half and half and 1 tsp onion powder.

Tart:

defrost one piece of frozen puff pastry for 40 mins. Roll out to a 10x16" rectangle, roll slightly and crimp edges. Brush 1/4 cup mustard and sprinkle with pepper. Boil 1lb asparagus for 5ish minutes til crisp tender. Drain. Spread evenly 2oz prosciuto(sp?) and arrange asparagus. Bake in preheated 400 oven for 20 minutes.

Now it's time for me to check on the wee one again and see how he's feeling.