St. Patrick’s Day can be an all-day celebration if you want! I have tips to take your St. Patty’s Day from brunch to lunch and into dinner. Start off your morning with a traditional Irish coffee or one of my coffee cocktail variations and Irish brunch, then move into your day with an Irish lunch and finish the day with Irish beer cocktails and Irish stew. Of course this day can’t be complete without Irish-inspired green and gold table décor!
Start your day and brunch with a little bit of caffeine and one of the following Irish coffee cocktails with Baileys. Click on the links below for recipes.
Complete your brunch with Green Eggs and Ham – an egg cooked in a sliced green bell pepper, topped with green hollandaise sauce and green pepper Tabasco sauce and served with ham. Click here for the recipe.
Then, transition into lunch with Bangers and Mash. Also known as sausages and mashed potatoes, this dish is a popular British tradition in which the term “bangers” came about during World War II when sausages made in water would explode in high heat. Click here for the recipe.
Before dinner drinks, dinner drinks, or after dinner drinks can include beer cocktails using Guinness and Harp! Click on the links below for recipes.
To accompany your beer cocktails, you can make an Irish stew. In order to make sure not stewing in the kitchen for too long, you can make it with the ease of canned foods! This way you can enjoy the company of your friends and family on St. Patrick’s Day and still make a great meal. Click here for the recipe.
If you want to take it to another level, you can make the Irish stew and turn it into an Irish Pot Pie with this recipe. Click here for the recipe.
For a variation on what is thought to be a traditional pie, you can make a Shepherd’s Pie! Click here for the recipe, which includes mashed potatoes instead of a pie crust.
In order to come full circle with all of the Irish drinks and food, your table must have a little bit of Irish in it as well! Kissing the Blarney Stone in Ireland is thought to bring the gift of gab. Click here to download my Blarney Stone Placemats with some of my favorite Irish sayings (like the one above) to give your guests something to talk about.
Use a green tablecloth and gold napkins to add to the theme! To give your guests something green to wear, make wearable napkin rings out of green ribbon and fun pinnable buttons with Irish sayings!
