Receta Saint Patricks Day Favorites

On St. Patricks Day everybody is a leprechaun for the day. We wear green. We drink green beer. We eat corned beef and cabbage.

Come to think of it, about the only things there that are genuinely Irish are corned beef and cabbage and, from reading a bit about it, the corned beef part came from Irish immigrants in New York City rather than Ireland.

But corned beef and cabbage is a tradition. Just like watching “A Quiet Man” or listening to James Galway flute music or going to a pub for an evening’s revelry celebrating all things Irish.

I’d much rather go into a Jewish deli on Saint Patrick’s day and order a really good “corned beef on rye” with potato salad than boiled to death corned beef and cabbage. But Cheap…