A St. Patricks Dinner!

For this past St. Patrick's Day, I decided to make my annual family dinner of corned beef, homemade cole slaw and roasted baby potatoes.  For dessert, I made a contemporary version of Irish Soda Bread.  The first thing I needed to do was make the Soda bread, so it had time to cool.  I started in the morning and the end result is photo #1.

My next task was to prepare the corned beef roast.  I prepared it with all of it's seasonings and baked it for 3.5 hours in the convection oven setting.  While it was "resting,"  I decided to prepare the cole slaw.



I wanted to use a new recipe, so I created a buttermilk, vinegar dressing, which I think was absolutely perfect with the texture and cut of the cabbage.  Our family tends to like the cole slaw on the savory side, so I reduced the amount of honey, so that it was not too sweet.

The next item on the menu that needed to be prepared was the roasted potatoes.  I used small red ones this year and bascially used a simple sea salt, fresh cracked pepper and olive oil spread to baste on the potatoes before roasting.  The final touch was a swirl of spicy mustard, which was perfect!



Here's to another Happy St. Patrick's day!