YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009

[David Shaw]

Happy St Patricks Day to all our friends from the Emerald Isle

[Michael J Campbell]

Thanks David,it was a beautiful day as well with wall to wall sunshine and 16c

[Maggi Young]

Bit late  in the day to be thinking of this .... but is there a special cake or sweetmeat associated with St. Patrick's Day? ( she asked, full of hope )

[Carlo]

Just bought a bit if Irish soda bread for dessert for Sharon and I tonight....

[Maggi Young]

Just bought a bit if Irish soda bread for dessert for Sharon and I tonight....

 Hmm, and very tasty too, but not exactly "celebratory" in nature, is it?


Are you happy to be home after the NARGS event, Carlo?  I heard your talks were very good  I would have enjoyed hearing them... and meeting you both. But I'm like a finewine you know..... I don't travel well!

[Paddy Tobin]

Maggi,

To my knowledge there is not special food associated with St. Patrick's Day.

We have always had rhubarb fool for dessert on St. Patrick's day, just because it is seasonal with the earliest of the rhubarb ready for use. Main course this evening was a risotto of spring greens - peas, mange tout, baby sweet corn and asparagus. But that's just the Tobins.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

It seems to me those Tobins eat jolly well   
Glad to hear from Michael Campbell that you had a nice sunny day for St. Patrick...
 it would keep those naughty Leprechauns out of mischief.....

[Carol Shaw]

Glad to hear from Michael Campbell that you had a nice sunny day for St. Patrick...
 it would keep those naughty Leprechauns out of mischief.....

Not a hope Maggi, not a hope 

[ranunculus]

Just thought it was about time that we reiterated what a magnificent forum this is ... it has become so dynamic of late that it is difficult to keep up with all the new and ongoing threads, incredible images flit before our eyes and information expands within each of the ever increasing pages.  Long may it continue. 

[Carlo]

OK Paddy, rhubarb fool? Love to have the recipe for that (PM if you don't want it taking up space here). Just saw the first soil-breaking noses of my rhubarb today!

[Maggi Young]

OK Paddy, rhubarb fool? Love to have the recipe for that (PM if you don't want it taking up space here). Just saw the first soil-breaking noses of my rhubarb today!

I rather think a few folks would enjoy that recipe right here! I have my Mum's recipe somewhere ..... but where?

[Michael J Campbell]

Bit late  in the day to be thinking of this .... but is there a special cake or sweetmeat associated with St. Patrick's Day? ( she asked, full of hope Roll Eyes)

Sorry Maggi,no cake. We had bacon and cabbage followed by rhubarb crumble.

[Lesley Cox]

Roger and his brother did a pub crawl round half a dozen local Irish and other establishments. Teddy and Cain and I went to bed early (not altogether though).

[Anthony Darby]

Interesting to note that St Patrick's 'colour' was actually blue, not green. I'll probably have a Guinness on Thursday after choir, but the nearest we got to having an Irish meal was the mashed tatties with our sausage casserole.

[Maggi Young]

Michael, any meal with bacon sounds good to me.
 I'm detecting a Rhubarb theme to the day ....perhaps a campaign is in order...... Rhubarb for St Patrick!