Add a little green to your St. Patrick's Day menu. Credit: Getty Images
In Chicago, they dye an entire river green for St. Patrick's Day. But most of us would be happy with a plate of green food. Here's how to add that emerald hue to your entire St. Patrick's Day menu.
Breakfast
- Green Eggs - Scramble up some green eggs by simply adding a drop of green food coloring to the mix before cooking.
- Pancakes - As with eggs, just a drop of green food coloring is enough to add some color to this pancake recipe.
- Fruit Salad - Go green the natural way with a mix of Kiwi, honeydew melon and green grapes.
- Green Salad - Here's a recipe for a simple green salad with homemade dressing. Toss in a green avocado for even more flavor and color.
- Green Peanut Butter Sandwich - A little green food coloring stirred into your favorite peanut butter and spread on green bread is a St. Patrick's Day treat.
- Jello Mousse Bites - Use lime instead of strawberry Jello for these cool treats.
- Steak with Green Sauce - Inexpensive Flat Iron steaks are spiced up with a delicious green sauce.
- Brussels Sprouts - Whether you prepare them simply steamed or roasted with a little olive oil and garlic, brussels sprouts are delicious and good for you.
- Mashed Potatoes - Add a drop or two of green food coloring to any of these delicious mashed potato recipes.
- Green Apple Slices - Dip apples into a cream cheese and marshmallow mixture tinted with a drop of green food coloring.
- Sugar Cookies- Take a basic sugar cookie recipe, tint it green and top with green icing.
- Key Lime Cupcakes - Finish these green cupcakes off with some lime jello frosting for a tasty treat.
- St. Patrick's Day Milkshake - No food coloring needed for this naturally green milkshake.
- Green Beer - It just wouldn't be St. Patrick's Day without a pint of green beer.
Josslen Adams,11-15-2010, 1:51PM
St. Patrick's Day brings me back to when I was in Las Vegas, and they had all these St. Patty's Day festivities going on. I ran into some actual Irish people whilst listening to some block party band playing off of a cargo trailer. They were practically the poster children for an Irish man on St. Patrick's day. They were yelling stuff I couldn't understand at the top of there lungs, sounding all Irish. It was hilarious. Not to mention, it's Vegas, and St. Patty's Day!!! Great times!!!
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