Danny Jensen | 11 months ago | Comments (1)
St. Patrick's Day brings out the Irish in everyone, so this year, go the extra green mile and cook up some sustainable St. Paddy's recipes to fuel your green beer soaked revelry. My Irish ancestry certainly shines a little brighter around this time of year, and nothing transports me back to Ireland more quickly than digging into fresh baked Irish soda bread, mouth-watering corned beef and cabbage, or a slice of heavenly chocolate Guinness cake. Okay, so I don't think I actually had the cake while studying on the Emerald Isle, but I never complain when my friend Sarah whips one up. So, don your leprechaun hat, put on your "Kiss me I'm Irish" T-shirt and get cooking!
Soda Bread is a classic staple of the Irish diet (okay, maybe not as much as the potato), and a fun and easy way to try your hand at baking bread. This recipe from Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food calls for buttermilk, so find a diary near you that sells milk from grass-fed cows, which is much healthier for you, the cow and the planet. Finding local flour can be a bit of a challenge, but the number of small-scale growers and mills is growing all the time.
3 3/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups buttermilk
1. Preheat oven to 450°F.
2. Measure flour, salt and soda and mix together in a large bowl. More
