Recipes for St Patrick's Day

Yes I know its not for over a month but I like to be prepared.

Has anyone got a good recipe for Colcannon, Irish Stew or potato bread?

Pan fried potato bread? Like Fadge?

I make Guinness stew (I will try and find my recipe), and colcannon is pretty easy just make up some mash and add some fried up onion cabbage & bacon. What about Soda bread? For dessert we have tipsy cake which is basically a madeira cake, some jam & some brandy all mixed together, then topped with custard then cream (so a really basic trifle minus fruit).

Wow, you really do like to be prepared!!! I usually just put green colour in mashed tatties.

Try this site. It's got heaps of Irish recipes:
http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=irish

Let us know what you make.

Cai - yep like little pancakes. Guiness stew recipe would be great.
Sal - thanks I will check those out.
Mmm soda bread. I might have to get some practice in before the 17th I think :)

With fadge, we'd make it up with about 500g of potato (boil to the same consistancy as you would to mash, make sure there is no lumps), add a couple of tablespoons of butter, some salt & pepper. Then I get about 3/4 cup flour and kneed the flour in till you get a dough like consistancy (depending on the potato I add a little less or up to 3/4 cup). Then we tend to do a double fry. So the first fry is done in a pan with flour sprinkled on it (this is to cook the fadge) cook until brown on both sides. Then you can freeze what you don't need and then when you want to cook it to eat fry in the pan with some butter (and oil so it doesn't burn). YUM YUM YUM! We normally have this with breakfast more than anything. Oh you'll need to halve or third the dough and roll out into rounds, we'd then cut each round into sixths or quarters (depending on the size of the round. It should be about 2 cm thick. So you can make the fadge ahead of time then fry it when you need it. Great with fried eggs :)