St Pats

 Saint Patrick's Day

Or

Agios Patrikios in Greek

 Kronia polla 

Ireland

Happy day

These false-Shamrock 'flowers' are fresh from the garden and very floppy.

I didn't have a Guinness glass so they're arranged in a Heineken glass.

I used to make Irish lamb stew for the family when the little Greek girls were small. At the time I thought they liked it.  But recollections may vary and frequently do.  

I often made  traditional bean soup (fassolatha) and still make it for K. I discovered years later that they hated it and tipped it back in the pot when my back was turned.  Neither of them will eat it even now. 

Baileys Irish Cream though is quite another story. Daughter Elli and I and friend Jan can easily find the bottom of a bottle of Baileys. Happy smile. I made Irish cream at home in days of old. Very easy. Very good. Made with cheap Lidls whiskey.  

Elli enjoys a Guinness now and again and we won't say 'no' to an Irish coffee. 

I've made, in the past, Irish soda bread and potato cakes. Irish food is good food.  Fills the belly and makes it happy. 

It's many many years since I've had real thinly sliced corned beef with a side of Colmans mustard.  My mother used to make Silverside, corned beef. 

It's not a greek thing. Except the tinned sort. 

For the Oldies

Was it Jiggs, that comic strip character, whose favourite meal was corned beef and cabbage? 

And last but Not least

Have a very 

Happy Birthday

Kathryn Mas 

Enjoy lots of Guinness

And Irish Whiskey (with an 'e') 

May ye all be touched by the luck of the Irish