Irish Cooking thread (3 Viewers)

[ann post]

ok, so every time i have a johnny foreigner about my place, they talk normally for an hour then they ask 'so whats a traditional irish dish', which invaribly, i essentially dont answer. so past few weeks i've been trying to piece together some vague idea of what standard irish cooking was pre-tesco.

Stuff i regard as being traditional irish:

Irish Stew / Lamb Stew
Bacon and Cabbage
Leek and Potatoe soup (it tastes quite irish)

there must be more. post the recipies too.

 

[ann post]

yeah lucky charms too.

 

[Wobbler]

Coddle. Never had it though. Full Irish breakfasts. Potato cakes

 

[ernesto]

coddle (sp?)

superquinn sossie sambos.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Colcannon

• 4 lbs (1.8kg) potatoes, or about 7-8 large potatoes ('old' potatoes or russet potatoes are best, waxy potatoes won't do)
• 1 green cabbage or Kale
• 1 cup ( 7 fl oz, 240 ml) milk (or cream)
• 1 stick (4oz, 120g) butter, divided into three parts
• 4-5 scallions (green onions), chopped
• Salt and Pepper
• Fresh Parsley or chives

Not everyone adds scallions to colcannon, but they do add something worth having in my opinion.
Method

Peel and boil the potatoes. Remove the core from the cabbage, slice it thinly, and put into a large saucepan. Cover with boiling water from the kettle and keep at a slow rolling boil until the cabbage is just wilted and has turned a darker green. This can take anything from 3-5 minutes depending on the cabbage. Test it and don't let it overcook, if anything it should be slightly undercooked.
When the cabbage is cooked, drain it well, squeeze to get any excess moisture out, then return to the saucepan. Add one third of the butter and cover. Leave it covered and in a warm place, but not on a burner, with the butter melting gently into it while you continue.
When the potatoes are soft, drain and return the saucepan, with the drained potatoes in, to a low burner, leaving the lid off so that any excess moisture can evaporate. When they are perfectly dry, add the milk to the saucepan along with a third of the butter and the chopped scallions if you are using them. Allow the milk to warm but not boil - it is about right when the butter has fully melted into it and it starting to steam.
With a potato masher or a fork mash the potatoes thoroughly into the butter/milk mixture. Do NOT pass through a ricer or, worse, beat in a mixer as it will make the potatoes gluey and disgusting.
Mix the cabbage thoroughly through the mashed potato.
Before serving season with a little salt and sprinkle with fresh parsley or chives. Most importantly, make a well in the centre of the mound of potato and put the last third of the butter in there to melt.

Tayto sandwiches with Brennan's bread and Kerrygold

Open loaf of bread, remove two slices, butter both slices, open Tayto packet, sprinkle liberally tayto crisps on one slice of bread, scrunch other slice down. Then eat.

Smoked salmon on browyn bread.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Mulligatawny soup sounds Irish* but I don't think it is.


* like Glengarry Glen Ross and Jerry Maguire

 

[ratmonkey]

Tripe and drisheen.

 

[jimmybreeze]

Boxty

Colcannon

Deadly halloween dish
,You forgot the 20p pieces in baking paper though!

Tayto sandwiches with Brennan's bread and Kerrygold

Open loaf of bread, remove two slices, butter both slices, open Tayto packet, sprinkle liberally tayto crisps on one slice of bread, scrunch other slice down. Then eat.

Best recipe Iv read in a while!

 

[Jill Hives]

Tayto sandwiches with Brennan's bread and Kerrygold

Open loaf of bread, remove two slices, butter both slices, open Tayto packet, sprinkle liberally tayto crisps on one slice of bread, scrunch other slice down. Then eat.

I feel sick to my stomach.

I was most impressed with the variety of which potatoes are cooked. First Christmas dinner I had here there was like five different types of potato put on my plate. "What's this?" .... "It's a potato!"

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Any vegetable boiled to within an inch of its life and then mashed. Turnip is a good example.

Cabbage water.

I suppose an Irish curry is when you add a bit of curry powder to a coddle and serve it with rice. That's what my mam does.

 

[rettucs]

Tayto sandwiches with Brennan's bread and Kerrygold

Open loaf of bread, remove two slices, butter both slices, open Tayto packet, sprinkle liberally tayto crisps on one slice of bread, scrunch other slice down. Then eat.

for variety, add cheese.

for those that are daring, use salt and vinegar crisps.

I lived on these for 4 years in college. Hunky Dorys rather than Tayto though.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

for variety, add cheese.

Foreigner: "But what kind of cheese?"
Local: "Ordinary cheese".

 

[ernesto]

for variety, add cheese.

for those that are daring, use salt and vinegar crisps.

I lived on these for 4 years in college. Hunky Dorys rather than Tayto though.

and add red onion to the king cheese sambo.
magic.

 

[GO]

Coddle-nicest dinner ever.

Take
12 sausages
2 lbs bacon pieces(yer butcher can sort these out for you,tell him its for Coddle)
4 medium onions halved
6 carrots(cut normally not baton)
Spuds
Good quality stock cubes(2 off)

Lob the lot bar the spuds into a pot and cook for about an hour .
Lash in the spuds and continue cooking till they're nice.

Serve with chef brown sauce and crusty white bread.

Serves 4(or 2 twice,as with all stewy dishes it goes all sublime on day 2)


Bingo bongo you're in Coddletown.Population-Satisfaction.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

famine chips

 

[killy kill]

breakfast roll

 

[snakybus]

If we're talking tayto sangwedges then may I suggest a fried egg, grated cheese and plenty of crisps, in white bread with plenty of mayonnaise. I could go for one of those right now.

I'm thinking blackberry crumble might be an Irish thing. I made one the other day and it's dead easy. You get some blackberries, which you can pick this time of year in a park or a field. You put these in a baking thingy, stack 'em three blackberries high. Then you make the crumble - I made this up myself: some flour, some of that soft brown sugar and some butter, then mix it with your hands and throw in some porridge oats. Lash that on top of the blackberries and throw some more oats on the top, then bake it for 25 minutes. We had it with custard and it was amazing, the kids savaged it. Blackberries are sweet enough that they don't need sugar.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

sounds lovely Mike. Must try and pick some blackberries. Hopefully they'll still be some left

 

[Scientician 0.8]

black forest gateaux. Nobody in Germany eats that.

 

[killy kill]

pack a taaaayyyyytos