Category: Holidays & Occasions

ST. PATRICK’S DAY RECIPE: Guinness Chocolate Mousse & Truffles

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Chocolate mousse with Guinness. Photo courtesy Guinness Storehouse.   When you’re Justin O’Connor, executive chef at Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, you work Guinness stout into every recipe, from Guinness Chocolate Cupcakes to soup. Guinness, which has chocolaty notes, is a great match with chocolate desserts. Whip one up for St. Patrick’s Day, and serve it…
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RECIPE: Warm Spinach Mascarpone Dip

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Among our Eatin’ O’ The Green recipes for St. Patrick’s Day, this warm spinach dish is very popular. Who doesn’t love a spinach dip, with its glimmer of healthful green spinach blended into a creamy (and not so healthful) base? This recipe, from Vermont Creamery,is made even richer with mascarpone. It’s delicious as a kick-back…
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RECIPE: Upside Down Irish Whiskey Cake

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Irish whiskey cake: an upside down apple cake with a mascarpone filling. Photo courtesy Betty Crocker.   This cake was originally pitched to us as a holiday fruitcake—an upside-down apple cake with whiskey-soaked fruit. But we liked the idea of it for St. Patrick’s Day as well. The recipe, from Betty Crocker, was developed with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Irish Beer

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A glass of Murphy’s shows off the chocolaty color. It also has chocolaty flavors, and a sweetness which makes it an ideal “dessert beer.” Photo courtesy Murphy’s.   Many people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with beer. But this is not the occasion to pull out your favorite American craft beers or mass-market standards such as…
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FOOD FUN: Beer Flavored Jelly Beans

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Chew, don’t chug, these beer-flavored jelly beans. Photo courtesy Jelly Belly.   What if your kid’s first beer was a jelly bean? Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Jelly Belly Candy Company has launched the first beer-flavored jelly bean, called Draft Beer. Beer has been a oft-requested flavor for decades. After years of working…
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