Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Eatin' o' the green

I'm on a bunch of cooking- or food-related e-mail lists; today I saw a message about celebrating Saint Patrick's Day by stirring green food coloring into your pudding or mashed potatoes and sprinkling green sugar or candy on cookies.

I was thinking "or you could just have a salad," but I'm not all that festive.

(My grandmother is Irish, by way of Boston, but not a single old country family recipe has survived. I suspect there is a reason. I should have celebrated Saint Casimir Day on March 4.)