A Little Irish Celebration --or-- Some Macabre St. Patty's Day Fun!

I'm not afraid to admit that I have a HUGE crush on Warwick Davis. I have since I was a child. LOVE. HIM.

So, here is what I think everyone everywhere should be doing today: watching the Leprechaun movies (featuring my dear Warwick) and making the Irish Club's Irish Stew, keeping a healthy portion of bone in -- and what creepy friends of mine aren't big fans of having skeletal remains in their stew?

Ingredients:

3/4 cup pear barley
3 pounds rib lamb chops not less than 1 inch thick, trimmed of any fat
5 medium onions, chopped, or 12 boiling onions
5 medium carrots, peeled and chopped, or 12 baby ones, peeled
3 large parsnips, peeled and chopped
1 1/4 cups chicken stock
1 1/4 cups veal stock
Salt and freshly milled black pepper
Leaves from a medium rosemary sprig, minced
3 sage leaves, minced
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
8 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced about 1/4 inch thick

Directions on NPR.org from Nigella Lawson.

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My recommendation? A genuine classic which blends horror, everyone's favorite mythological Irish creature, and SPACE:



Feel free to make your own Irish Cream and or grab a Guinness and play the Leprechaun drinking game. :)

ERIN GO BRAGH!