Happy St. Patrick's Day

I always associated this holiday with Shamrock shakes from McDonalds (Heather made some herself this year), but I had been missing out on some great Irish food.



Heather made a breakfast of scrambled eggs, deer sausage, and these green clover pancakes.





The kids and I worked outside raking leaves and tending to the raspberry beds. A hotdog roast may not be strictly orthodox, but it was fun and allowed us to burn up some branches from our pruned trees. Almost as soon as we finished lunch, Heather began preparing our St. Patty's supper.





I called our local butcher looking for brisket and was surprised to learn that he already had some made into corned beef. Heather boiled it for four hours and then cooked potatoes, onion, cabbage, carrots, and parsnips in the same pot.



We ate the meal with a fresh loaf of Irish soda bread and some of the apple juice we made last year. In summary it was a great day. I'm giving the blog another try precisely because I seem to forget these kinds of days if I don't write them down.

To be clear, Jewel does not get credit for our return to blogging.

- C